Neil Young and Crazy Horse are about halfway through their North American tour, and there’s already a strong fan consensus that this is their best run in recent memory, perhaps even going back to the Nineties grunge era they helped kickstart. A big factor at play is the addition of guitarist Micah Nelson, who has deep respect for the material and an uncanny ability to emulate the distinct styles of both Danny Whitten and Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, his two main predecessors in the band.
Just two years away from his 80th birthday,...
Just two years away from his 80th birthday,...
- 5/25/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced Early Daze, a new archival album primarily consisting of unreleased songs originally recorded in 1969. The 10-track collection is out June 28th via Reprise Records.
Featuring Crazy Horse’s early lineup of guitarist Danny Whitten, drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot, and keyboardist Jack Nitzsche with Young, Early Daze contains six newly unearthed songs: “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown,” “Winterlong,” “Wonderin’,” “Look at All the Things,” “Helpless,” and “Down by the River.”
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The LP also includes previously unreleased versions of “Cinnamon Girl” and “Birds,” as well as a new mix of “Everybody’s Alone,” which you can stream below.
Early Daze will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are currently on their “Love Earth Tour” in support of their new album, Fu##In’ Up. See the full schedule,...
Featuring Crazy Horse’s early lineup of guitarist Danny Whitten, drummer Ralph Molina, bassist Billy Talbot, and keyboardist Jack Nitzsche with Young, Early Daze contains six newly unearthed songs: “Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown,” “Winterlong,” “Wonderin’,” “Look at All the Things,” “Helpless,” and “Down by the River.”
Get Neil Young + Crazy Horse Tickets Here
The LP also includes previously unreleased versions of “Cinnamon Girl” and “Birds,” as well as a new mix of “Everybody’s Alone,” which you can stream below.
Early Daze will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are currently on their “Love Earth Tour” in support of their new album, Fu##In’ Up. See the full schedule,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Shortly after the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield in 1968, Neil Young teamed up with the core members of struggling L.A. rock band the Rockets, renamed them Crazy Horse, and spent the next five decades working alongside them. Their first record was 1969’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, featuring classics like “Down By The River” and “Cowgirl In The Sand.”
But their early recording sessions produced a lot more music than the seven songs on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and Young is finally sharing this music on June 28 with the release of Early Daze.
But their early recording sessions produced a lot more music than the seven songs on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and Young is finally sharing this music on June 28 with the release of Early Daze.
- 5/17/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In typical Neil Young fashion, virtually nothing was revealed about his 2024 U.S. tour before it kicked off Wednesday night at San Diego’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, other than the fact he’d be backed by Crazy Horse, and that Micah Nelson would be taking over guitar duties from Nils Lofgren. Would he pull a Greendale and debut an entire rock opera nobody had ever heard? Would he focus the set around the three new studio albums he cut with Crazy Horse between 2019 and 2022? Might he...
- 4/25/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are hitting the road for their first proper tour in ten years. It kicks off on April 24 in San Diego, California, and wraps up on May 23 in Chicago, Illinois. Ticket sales for the subscribers of The Neil Young Archives begin today. The general on-sale starts February 16.
The group is also releasing the live album Fu##In’ Up, which was recorded at concerts last year. “In the spirit it’s offered…made this for the Horse lovers,” Young said in a statement. “I can’t stop it.
The group is also releasing the live album Fu##In’ Up, which was recorded at concerts last year. “In the spirit it’s offered…made this for the Horse lovers,” Young said in a statement. “I can’t stop it.
- 2/13/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty years to the day after Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers performed at the opening of the Roxy in Los Angeles — a night that looms large in rock & roll lore thanks to decades of bootlegs — the curtain rose at the L.A. club to reveal Young and his bandmates back on the same stage. He was perched behind the piano on the far right side, tickling out the opening notes of “Tonight’s the Night” to a packed audience of VIPs and fans who’d paid $1,000 a ticket, with...
- 9/21/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young always knew Tonight’s the Night was intense. “If you’re gonna put a record on at 11:00 in the morning, don’t put on Tonight’s the Night,” he warned Cameron Crowe in 1975. “Put on the Doobie Brothers.”
Young’s point was evident without even hearing the music. Just look at the stark, spooky cover, which features him standing onstage in complete darkness, wearing a pinstripe jacket and raising his finger to the microphone, his mouth forming a ghoulish smile. His shoulder-length hair looks like it’s gone many days without a wash,...
Young’s point was evident without even hearing the music. Just look at the stark, spooky cover, which features him standing onstage in complete darkness, wearing a pinstripe jacket and raising his finger to the microphone, his mouth forming a ghoulish smile. His shoulder-length hair looks like it’s gone many days without a wash,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
On April 14, years after first hinting they were coming, Neil Young is finally releasing two Seventies concert bootlegs. The first one, High Flyin’, is a series of recordings from his 1977 under-the-radar Santa Monica, California summer club tour with the Ducks, a supergroup of sorts featuring bassist Bob Mosley from Moby Grape, guitarist Jeff Blackburn, and drummer Johnny Craviotto. Check out a preview of “Little Wing” right here.
The Ducks never played outside Santa Cruz, and all four members took turns singing lead. Their sets only featured a handful of Young originals,...
The Ducks never played outside Santa Cruz, and all four members took turns singing lead. Their sets only featured a handful of Young originals,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
When Nicolette Larson was growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, she’d ask her friends to drive over bumpy roads so she could show off her Neil Young impression. As the truck moved up and down, she’d break out into a shaky vibrato.
Just a few years later, the singer found herself in a pickup again, this time with the very man she once emulated. Young — who first worked with Larson on his 1977 LP American Stars ‘n Bars, and briefly dated her afterward — was driving her around his Northern...
Just a few years later, the singer found herself in a pickup again, this time with the very man she once emulated. Young — who first worked with Larson on his 1977 LP American Stars ‘n Bars, and briefly dated her afterward — was driving her around his Northern...
- 6/21/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Between vintage concert albums and recent ones excavated from archival tapes, it’s become easier than ever to track the onstage history of Neil Young and Crazy Horse. We can now hear Young and the band in its early, funky, Danny Whitten days (Live at the Fillmore East), breaking in Whitten replacement Frank “Poncho” Sampedro (the often breathtaking Japanese 1976 show included on last year’s Archives Volume II), thundering in arenas not long after that (Live Rust), flexing their newly revitalized muscles in the early Nineties (Weld), and showing the...
- 2/25/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
On August 26th, 1973, Joni Mitchell arrived at Studio Instrument Rentals in Los Angeles, where Neil Young and his band the Santa Monica Flyers were recording the boozy Tonight’s the Night. Joined by guitarists Ben Keith and Nils Lofgren, drummer Ralph Molina, and bassist Billy Talbot, Mitchell and Young tore through “Raised on Robbery,” soon to be released on her album Court and Spark.
If the Tonight’s the Night sessions were indeed a “drunken Irish wake,” as Talbot later recalled, this take on “Raised on Robbery” was the eulogy.
If the Tonight’s the Night sessions were indeed a “drunken Irish wake,” as Talbot later recalled, this take on “Raised on Robbery” was the eulogy.
- 11/18/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Ahead of the release of his massive, long-awaited Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976, Neil Young has dropped an unreleased version of “Powderfinger.”
Available on Young’s Archives website, the track clocks in at seven minutes. Of the 10-disc box set, it appears on the disc Dume, recorded in 1975. Young enlisted Crazy Horse for Zuma that year, with Frank “Poncho” Sampedro joining the band after the death of guitarist Danny Whitten three years earlier.
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Available on Young’s Archives website, the track clocks in at seven minutes. Of the 10-disc box set, it appears on the disc Dume, recorded in 1975. Young enlisted Crazy Horse for Zuma that year, with Frank “Poncho” Sampedro joining the band after the death of guitarist Danny Whitten three years earlier.
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- 11/2/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
A fan recently reached out to Neil Young about his 76-year-old Uncle Eddie, expressing concern that Eddie won’t live long enough to hear all of Young’s archival releases. “That really bums me out,” Young wrote on his archives site, then outlined a potential plan to release an enormous cache of unreleased material to paid subscribers of the Archives long before it’s made available to the general public.
“I have been talking with our team about releasing all [the albums] here at Nya exclusively in 2020,” he writes. “Initially, these albums...
“I have been talking with our team about releasing all [the albums] here at Nya exclusively in 2020,” he writes. “Initially, these albums...
- 11/11/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away
– My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), By Neil Young and Jeff Blackburn
Neil lied. His 1977 song was written after the drug-fueled deaths of bandmate Danny Whitten and rock's founding superstar, Elvis Presley. But Young himself never burned out. At 73, he's still making movies and music and noise. Not everyone burns out, though these days, it sometimes seems that way.
Burnout Is Now A Thing
His song came to mind this week, in part because the World Health Organization officially declared that job-related burnout is A Thing, a substantial work-related medical condition that merits serious attention. The Who declared it to be "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” With all due respect to the Who, no duh.
This week also brought news that Game of Thrones star Kip Harrington checked into...
Than to fade away
– My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), By Neil Young and Jeff Blackburn
Neil lied. His 1977 song was written after the drug-fueled deaths of bandmate Danny Whitten and rock's founding superstar, Elvis Presley. But Young himself never burned out. At 73, he's still making movies and music and noise. Not everyone burns out, though these days, it sometimes seems that way.
Burnout Is Now A Thing
His song came to mind this week, in part because the World Health Organization officially declared that job-related burnout is A Thing, a substantial work-related medical condition that merits serious attention. The Who declared it to be "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” With all due respect to the Who, no duh.
This week also brought news that Game of Thrones star Kip Harrington checked into...
- 5/31/2019
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
Nils Lofgren was lounging by the pool of his Phoenix, Arizona, home with his wife Amy in April 2018 when the phone rang. “It was a Saturday,” recalls the guitarist. “I got a pad and paper out as I thought to myself, ‘Who is calling on a weekend? What will I need to take care of now? What business do I need to address?’ That was the cynic in me.”
It turned out to be Neil Young. “He said, ‘Look, we have these five Crazy Horse theaters shows booked in California...
It turned out to be Neil Young. “He said, ‘Look, we have these five Crazy Horse theaters shows booked in California...
- 3/27/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young has pulled out some stunningly-rare tunes on his solo acoustic theater tour since it began just one week ago, including “Ambulance Blues,” “The Last Trip to Tulsa,” “Broken Arrow” and “Razor Love.” But last night at the State Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he brought things to a whole other level with “Running Dry (Requiem for The Rockets).” The mournful song appeared on his 1969 LP Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, but until Tuesday he’d never played it live even a single time.
The subtitle of the song is...
The subtitle of the song is...
- 1/30/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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