In September of 1971, Neil Young took Graham Nash out on his lake in a rowboat and blasted his new album, Harvest. He’d wired his Northern California ranch house as the left speaker and a barn as the right speaker; as the record played, his producer, Elliot Mazer, ran down …
Read More »Graham Nash's 'A Life in Focus': See Photos of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and More
One day when Graham Nash was 10 years old, the police knocked on his family home in Salford, England, and said there was a problem with the camera Nash’s father had recently gifted him. “They told him that the camera had been stolen, and who was it that sold it …
Read More »Drummer Chad Cromwell on His Years With Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, and Joe Walsh
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Neil Young Announces 'Return to Greendale' Live Album and Film
Neil Young‘s 2003/04 Greendale tour with Crazy Horse will be chronicled on Return to Greendale, a live album and film coming out on November 6th. It will be available as a two-disc set or limited edition box set with two LPs, two CDs and a documentary, Inside Greendale, about the …
Read More »Neil Young Says Donald Trump Plays His Music 'With No Regard for My Rights'
Donald Trump has been playing “Rockin’ in the Free World” at his rallies for the past few years despite Neil Young‘s fervent objections, and over the weekend he added “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “Like a Hurricane” into the mix at an event near Mount Rushmore. Young initially called Trump …
Read More »Flashback: Warren Zevon and Neil Young Duet on 'Splendid Isolation' in 1993
Neil Young may be isolated away from the world in the remote Colorado home he shares with his wife, actress Daryl Hannah, but he’s still found ways to be there for his fans. During the past few weeks, he’s released three excellent Fireside Sessions, performing rarities and offering glimpses of …
Read More »Neil Young Asks Fans to Select His Next Archival Release
Neil Young has an ambitious plan to flood his Neil Young Archives website with unreleased albums and concert recordings in 2020 — and he’s asking his fans to help him sort through his vast archive to figure out which projects to prioritize. In a post on the website, Young outlines …
Read More »Live Review: Neil Young Reunites With Crazy Horse at Intimate Fresno Gig
Even by Neil Young‘s fearless standards, his show at Fresno, California’s Warnors Theater was a bold move. Not only did it mark his first performance with Crazy Horse in four years, but he claims they didn’t rehearse prior to the gig even though this is a new lineup of the …
Read More »Neil Young, Promise of the Real Announce New Album 'The Visitor'
Neil Young reteams with Promise of the Real for a new album titled The Visitor, their second studio LP together following 2015’s The Monsanto Years. The album, due out December 1st, comes just three months after Young released Hitchhiker, his long-lost LP of acoustic songs recorded over one night in …
Read More »10 New Albums to Stream Now: Rolling Stone Editors' Picks
Neil Young, HitchhikerThis “buried-treasure mother lode” from Neil Young’s archives, writes David Browne, is “a journey through the past, but far darker.” Young recorded the album’s 10 tracks in a single session on August 10, 1976, and the acoustic tracks include the failed-relationship chronicle “Give Me Strength” as well as …
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