NEIL YOUNG has released a surprise covers album.

The record, titled 'A Letter Home', is available now from Jack White's Third Man Records.

It features covers of tracks Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Everly Brothers and more.

Young recorded the album in a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph vinyl recording booth at the Third Man shop in Nashville, Tennessee.

A statement on Young's website describes the record as: "an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever".

The 'A Letter Home' tracklisting is as follows:

'Changes' (Phil Ochs)
'Girl From The North Country' (Bob Dylan)
'Needle of Death' (Bert Jansch)
'Early Morning Rain' (Gordon Lightfoot)
'Crazy' (Willie Nelson)
'Reason To Believe' (Tim Hardin)
'On The Road Again' (Willie Nelson)
'If You Could Read My Mind' (Gordon Lightfoot)
'Since I Met You Baby' (Ivory Joe Hunter)
'My Hometown' (Bruce Springsteen)
'I Wonder If I Care As Much' (Everly Brothers)