So we didn’t exactly get Year of the Horse, part II in 2019. But we did get another Neil Young and Crazy Horse album, Colorado, released a little over 50 years after Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere introduced the world to this extraordinary pairing. Amazingly, three out of the four musicians who made that epochal 1969 LP are still onboard – and together they still sound like no one else….
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Neil Young + Stray Gators :: Tuscaloosa
Intentional or not, Neil Young picked a rather poignant time to release a live album recorded in Alabama—and given his prickly history with the state (and with the South at large), Tuscaloosa feels like it’s arriving in the same way that so much of Shakey’s career has: just when we need it.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: The Unreleased Albums
Since the launch of his NeilYoungArchives.com site, fans have been tantalized by several unreleased work, many of which feature Crazy Horse in starring roles. Check out what’s (possibly) in store…
Neil Young :: Songs for Judy
Even if bootleg hunters already know this stuff backward and forward, Songs For Judy is an essential addition to the official canon. It captures Young in brilliantly loose form, rambling but righteous, a fine companion to Neil’s other recent solo acoustic ’76 vault release, Hitchhiker. An artist at his peak. Or at least one of his peaks, anyway.
Neil Young :: Roxy – Tonight’s The Night Live
Neil Young is proving himself to be the busiest senior citizen in the rock ‘n’ roll world this year. He’s got a doofy sci-fi western available to stream on Netflix . He’s brought Crazy Horse back out of the barn . He’s pretty much blogging over on the […]
Neil Young :: Dead Man [End Credits]
Last month saw the long-awaited release of the Criterion edition of Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 existentialist western Dead Man . In addition to 4K restoration, bonus interviews with Jarmusch and Gary Farmer, […]
Neil Young :: Music Arcade / A Medley (1980-2007)
Another ride in Neil’s dune buggy, another collection of (mostly) low-key NY highlights. The following 26 tracks span the 1980 Hawks & Doves LP to 2007’s Chrome Dreams II. Eat […]
Neil Young :: A Hitchhiker On The Road
Hitchhiker , Neil Young’s latest archival release, is an absolutely essential addition to the songwriter’s canon, capturing a skeletal mid-1976 solo acoustic session. It’s also our first chance to hear the […]
Neil Young: Songwriting & Old Men (Live & At Home, 1971)
Absolute homegrown ephemera gold courtesy of a 1972 Germany documentary which finds Neil Young in a honey slide haze on his fabled Broken Arrow Ranch, work-shopping “Out on the Weekend” (endearingly […]
Neil Young: Don’t Be Denied (BBC Documentary)
2009 BBC documentary tracing Neil Young’s career, culled from three hours of interviews shot in New York and California. Featuring Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Nils Lofgren, etc, the doc unearths previously […]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: : US Tour, November 1976
Neil Young took Crazy Horse out of the barn 40 years ago this month for a coast-to-coast US tour. Here’s the semi-official account, via Jimmy McDonough’s Shakey : Joel Bernstein […]
Neil Young :: Bluenote Café
“You know, I used to be pissed off at Bobby Darin because he changed styles so much. Now I look at him and I think he was a fucking genius.” […]
Sad Movies: The Secret History of Neil Young / 1973-1978
Dig into an assortment of choice live recordings from Neil Young’s peak 70s period — the period that will presumably be covered by the next volume of the songwriter’s Archives […]
Neil Young :: Live At The Bottom Line – NYC, 1974
In 2013 we highlighted Neil Young’s “Pushed It Over The End”, culled from a 1974 performance captured at the now-defunct, long running NYC club, The Bottom Line . Below is that evening in its entirety […]
Françoise Hardy :: Till the Morning Comes (Neil Young, 1972)
You did check these out, right? Hello, Mr. Soul :: Neil Young Covers, 1967-1978 Françoise Hardy :: Till the Morning Comes