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Old Sounds: Ray Charles
Original at VUE Weekly
• Wed, Jun 17
Canada Such is the case with someone like Neil Young, who has done time as a folkie, a country artist, an old-school rock 'n' roller, a grunge king and more. Given an output like Young has, it's difficult to put him in one place where all his work fits ...
Crosby, Stills & Nash: New tour, album mark group's 40 years together
Original at Battle Creek Enquirer
• Wed, Jun 17
The muddy weekend of peace and love also saw the debut of rock music's earliest supergroup: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The folk-rock synergy of David Crosby (The Byrds), Graham Nash (The Hollies), Stephen Stills and Neil Young (both of Buffalo ...
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Original at Artvoice
• Wed, Jun 17
NY On paper, adding some Neil Young or the Who to Sonic Youth seems dubious, but here it perfectly fleshes out the song's concise choruses, and adds a warmth to the song's excellent bite. Thurston Moore, on the other hand, is disappointingly out of the ...
Jack Savoretti - Harder Than Easy
Original at musicOMH.com
• Wed, Jun 17
UK It's a stirring little song that sets up camp in Neil Young territory, which of course is no bad thing. Is this finally going to be Jack Savoretti's hour? Paolo Nutini has just topped the charts with a fully-fledged roots album, so don't bet against ...
Canadian singer to wow the Blue Sky Cafe in Bangor
Original at Holyhead and Anglesey Mail
• Wed, Jun 17
UK She avidly listened to recordings by Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, and Johnny Cash as well as the music of rockers Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and the Rolling Stones. At age 15, Alana began entering ...
Neil Young's Life 'Outside the Box' -- Total Media Group Creates ...
Original at Melodika.net
• Wed, Jun 17
Bulgaria Neil Young and Archives Producer, LA Johnson of Shakey Pictures engaged TMG for this project over 4 years ago. Handing them a wealth of music, manuscripts, never before seen sketches and clippings, they challenged Toshi Onuki and TMG to design, ...
Art&Seek Q&A: Filmmaker Andrew Shapter
Original at KERA Art&Seek
• Tue, Jun 16
TX Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse was a big part of that. You would hope that musicians won't be forgotten in the future when it becomes so singer based, but I always believe that rock 'n' roll will come back. A&S: Younger stars like Ashlee ...
WIN! Neil Young Tickets For Hard Rock Calling
Original at Strange Glue Music
• Tue, Jun 16
UK Q: What is the name of Neil Young's latest studio album. Answers on a email to music AT strangeglue DAWT COM. Deadline for entries is 5pm on Monday 22nd June - the winner will be notified thereafter. If you don't want to leave it to chance, ...
Singer-songwriter fuses sounds of Neil Young, Beck
Original at washingtonexaminer.com
• Mon, Jun 15
DC That's why the modern-day minstrel whose music has been favorably compared to that of a 1970s era Neil Young with a dash of modern alt music ala Beck has decided to titled his new album "Introducing Bob Schneider." The album -- slated for fall release ...
Opinion: Neil Young Daily Deconstruction: Day #5 Answer
Original at Minnesota Public Radio
• Mon, Jun 15
Time for the final answer from our week-long Neil Young Daily Deconstruction, where we invite you to guess the identity of the Neil Young album cover that we'd photoshopped to exlude certain key elements. Everyone correctly guessing any of the five ...
Pixies Return to the Stage at Isle of Wight Festival
Original at Rolling Stone
• Mon, Jun 15
New album and tour. We need it. Real rock must return and destroy The Jonas Brothers and Adam Lambert!! Please more shows. Please more shows. Stop dicking around. I'm glad that the Pixies can still go out and earn some money for their past genius. ...
Booker T. never tires of Green Onions
Original at Times Colonist
• Sat, Jun 13
Canada Jones has a solid new album out, Potato Hole, his first solo disc in 20 years. It's a funky collaboration -- more rock than soul -- with the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young. It's fine -- especially Booker T.'s trippy cover of Andre 3000's Hey Ya! ...
Lifetime passes
Original at Herald & Review
• Fri, Jun 12
Herald & Review, IL In music, my lifetime passes go to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Pete Townshend. Each of them has written and produced music that attracted me from the very beginning. Each of them grew and had different phases. I didn't like all phases, ...
Television: The Emmys Reality, Fiction and Points Between
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Jun 5
United States NEIL YOUNG: DON'T BE DENIED (PBS, Wednesday) It would be hard to top Jonathan Demme's 2006 concert documentary “Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” but Mr. Young's fans are unlikely to complain about overkill. Interviews with Mr. Young about his long rock 'n' ...
Original at The World Wide Glen
• Wed, Jun 3
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Neil Young, Vol. 1: No detail spared
Original at Philadelphia Inquirer
• Wed, Jun 3
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New Album Releases 06/02/09: Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Dave ...
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Jun 2
We've got an absolutely loaded lineup of New Album Releases for your ears this week -- including no less than Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews, and that Neil Young box -- and I don't want to waste another minute before getting to it. ... Out today: Neil Young, Elvis Costello St. Louis Post-Dispatch
New Reviews: Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young and Jeff Buckley
Original at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Jun 2
s David Fricke calls the LP the band's “most electrifying album yet.” The record serves as a tribute to saxophonist leroi Moore, the “groogrux King” of the album title who passed away in August 2008 following an ATV accident. ... New Releases, June 2: Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young, Rancid Live...
Tribute to NEIL YOUNG: Strasburg, Virginia - SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
Original at Neil Young
• Thu, May 28
By Thrasher(thrasher@thrasherswheat.org) A Tribute Concert to NEIL YOUNG this SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009 in Strasburg, Virginia.Come out and enjoy a fabulous tribute show with JEFF TAYLOR performing solo with his array of acoustic guitars, banjo and harmonicas from 8pm to 9pm of Neil Young's best-known songs like "Sugar Mountain" a...
CD REVIEW: Neil Young's winding road
Original at The Weekender
• Tue, May 12
PA His latest twist, “Fork In The Road,” is a return to the guitar-driven rock that reflects past efforts like “Rust Never Sleeps” and “Freedom.” The material isn't quite up to the high standards of his earlier work, but it's definitely some of the most ... Neil Young: Fork in the Road KUAR
Potato Hole Review
Original at Neil Young
• Mon, May 11
By Thrasher(thrasher@thrasherswheat.org) Here's a review of the new Booker T. CD Potato Hole with Drive by Truckers and Neil Young from Jambands.com by Brian Robbins:Well, I certainly hope Booker T. Jones is happy. Does the man realize how many speeding tickets are going to be doled out this summer to people who innocently pop his new Po...
Opinion: Neil Young Ages Well on “Fork in the Road”
Original at New University Online
• Mon, Apr 13
You can listen to the entire album on Neil Young’s MySpace but he’d probably try to talk you out of doing so; he might even grimace if you download “Fork in the Road” on iTunes. Presuming you can cough up the bucks, so to speak, you can buy the album ...
Album review: 'Fork in the Road,' by Neil Young
Original at Utica Observer Dispatch
• Fri, Apr 10
Above, Neil Young's 'Fork in the Road,' a tribute (of sorts) to the 1959 Lincoln Continental he turned into a hybrid. By Patrick Varine Neil Young's electric work has earned him a permanent place in music as the Great Ragged Guitar Player. ...
Album review: Neil Young's 'Fork in the Road'
Original at Los Angeles Times Blogs
• Mon, Apr 6
There's a bailout coming, but it's not for you," Neil Young laments in the title track from "Fork in the Road," a crackling travelogue that in some ways could be viewed as his version of Twitter. This in-the-moment dispatch from the mercurial rocker ...
SPOTLIGHT: NEIL OR NO NEIL
Original at zakkorama
• Sun, Mar 15
By Zakk(noreply@blogger.com) To make a justified comparison here and here is the archive release from an early Neil Young solo live performance recorded in 1968. Released by Neil Young last year as Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House. It does not include any of the 17 songs from The Lost Tapes.
Podcast: Ben Kweller covers Neil Young + plays some new songs
Original at I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
• Sun, Feb 1
By browneheather Also — man. I love that Neil Young song (from 1992’s Harvest Moon) and just like everything Kweller does, the way he sings it is here is so purely unaffected and honest: Ben Kweller - Live on BBC2 13th December 2008 Intro/Chat I Sawdust Man (new) Chat II From Hank To Hendrix (Neil Young cover)
How to Play our Album the Right Way... All the Time!Original at YouTube
• Tue, Jan 20
By rss@youtube.com (stereoreel) Author: stereoreel Keywords: Stereoreel vinyl LP Save Me Neil Young The Moody Blues The Byrds Psalty The Music Machine Beards Ears Awesome Tutorial Added: January 20, 2009
How To: Hey Hey My My introOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Jan 11
By rss@youtube.com (DaveyXRated) Just me screwing around. Guitar: Custom Made Les Paul (I made myself) Amp: Crate something rather Song: Hey Hey My My - Neil Young Peddles: Distortion, Wah, Another Distortion with more effects. Amp Settings: Gain Maxes, RVB 6, Delay A7, Delay A7. Thanks for watching! Subscribe and visit me...
How To Play The Guitar! Heart of Gold, Neil YoungOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Jan 3
• 4 related articles
By rss@youtube.com (epiphonewhiltshire) How To Play Heart of Gold by Neil Young on Guitar Author: epiphonewhiltshire Keywords: Heart of Gold Neil Young how to guitar Added: January 3, 2009
Podcast: Bests of 2008Original at flickr.com
• Tue, Dec 30
By nobody@flickr.com (quadb) The trap boys can get pretty intense at times, but the title track from their excellent September release showcases a softer side of their sound. This song is folk music at its finest, with its sublime and intelligent lyrics proving to be a welcome companion to the song's simple, yet beauti...
Podcast: New Music - The Killers, The Fireman, Neil YoungOriginal at mjsbigblog
• Sun, Dec 7
By mj Neil Young - Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968 - Recorded 40 years ago, this live acoustic recording of Neil Young on the eve of releasing his first solo album, doesn’t sound the least bit dated. Indeed, Young is one of those rare artists who manages to remain timeless and relev...
Opinion: Sacramento Single: Christopher Fairman's "Pages"Original at Sacramento Bee
• Fri, Dec 5
By rleibrock@sacbee.com (Rachel Leibrock) Inspired by his musical hero Neil Young, Sacramento's Christopher Fairman always knew he wanted to be a musician. It's like a diary of a year in my life," he says. "The songs are more personal than anything I'd done before." The painting will be the album cover for "85, 87" and the fit, he says, i...
Opinion: Neil Young: “There’ll Never Be Another Crazy Horse”
Original at Rolling Stone
• Thu, Dec 4
By Andy Greene Will you tour again with Crazy Horse? Maybe. • Neil Young Opens the Vaults • Cover Story: Neil Young, The Open Man • The Rolling Stone Interview: Neil Young • Neil Young: The Last American Hero • Cover Story: Cameron Crowe on Neil Young
Franco Battiato
Original at Live on 35mm
• Sat, Nov 22
By Valerio When I wrote about the only other Italian artist to have appeared on liveon35mm so far, Vinicio Capossela, I had been so stunned by a Neil Young concert that, incapable to talk about contemporary rock music, I moved to something a bit different.
Opinion: We Interview: Kathleen EdwardsOriginal at Seattlest
• Mon, Nov 17
By Jack Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter who claims her primary influences are Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty. She spent some of her youth in Korea and Switzerland and she studied classical violin for twelve years. Do you have a favorite song from the new album?
Podcast: Melbourne singer-songwriter Gerard Daley releases Diff’Rent States + download MP3
Original at Band Weblogs » Albums
• Thu, Nov 6
By bandweblogs ‘Diff’Rent States’ also includes the track “The Wrongness of Righteousness”; a song which is featured on Neil Young’s online ‘Songs of the Times’ chart, as well as “Butcher’s Blocks”; a track completed in 2007 after a few musician friends recorded each of their parts in their own home st...
Key Tracks: TV On the Radio, Jackson Browne, Jenny LewisOriginal at Rolling Stone
• Tue, Sep 30
Finger-snapping acoustic blues that’s sharper than the knife Lewis brags about brandishing. Murder ballads never sounded so sexy. Review] Channeling Neil Young circa Harvest, these Oregon kids spin the prettiest-ever folk tribute about a giant tree-shaking bird.
Podcast: Rogue Wave cover Neil Young's "Birds"
Original at I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
• Thu, Sep 11
By noreply@blogger.com (heather) When I posted the new Rogue Wave video at the beginning of the summer, a reader posted a comment looking for Rogue Wave's cover of the 1970 Neil Young song "Birds" that they'd just covered at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Intriguing. Birds (Neil Young cover) - Rogue Wave
How To: Guitar Lesson- My My Hey Hey
Original at Sharkle's Video
• Mon, Sep 8
By Neil Hogan Continued at http://www.TotallyGuitars.com Neil Hogan teaches how to play the intro to the rock classic My My Hey Hey by Neil Young. From the 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps.
Podcast: “The Last Days” of Amos LeeOriginal at Music Maven
• Sat, May 31
Last Days is produced by Don Was, and is accompanied by a star-studded musical cast including, the formidable Doyle Bramhall, Jr who plays with the great Eric Clapton on guitar, legendary keyboarder Spooner Oldham who has backed Neil Young and Aretha Franklin, bassman Pino Palladino o...
Review: Neil Young in Wallingford
Original at Hartford Courant
• Fri, Dec 7
By Hartford Courant First set (solo acoustic) 1. From Hank To Hendrix 2. Ambulance Blues 3. Sad Movies 6. Harvest 9. Love Art Blues 10. Old Man 11. Heart Of Gold Second set (full-band electric) 13. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 14. The Loner 15. Dirty Old Man 16. Spirit Road 18. Winterlong Encore 22. Cinnamon Girl
BNB: Chicago Tribune concert review
Original at bad
• Wed, Nov 14
By bh 14 November 2007 Neil Young turned 62 on Monday, and at a sold-out Chicago Theatre he set the Twenty-two songs, divided into acoustic and electric sets. Harvest" memories with "Old Man." Young and his longtime drummer Ralph Molina. The Crazy Horse veteran flew the
BNB: Chicago Sun-Times concert review
Original at bad
• Wed, Nov 14
By bh 13 November 2007 NEIL YOUNG nod to a more recent concert film, last year's Jonathan Demme-directed "Heart of drummer Ralph Molina, pedal steel player Ben Keith and bassist Rick Rosas -- and mixed greatest hits ("The Loner," "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere") with
Opinion: At Northrop: the complete Neil Young - Pioneer Press
Original at Pioneer Press
• Thu, Nov 8
At Northrop: the complete Neil Young BY ROB HUBBARD Which Neil Young do you like better? The reflective and frequently melancholy guitar-strumming, harmonica-blowing folkie? ... Concert review: Guitar god Neil Young stretches out on both the ... Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
Podcast: Don't mean to push, but I'm being shoved :: Twelve years of live Pearl Jam
Original at I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
• Sun, Nov 4
By heather So it's not like I light a candle or get a tear in my eye, but I do always smile when I write the date on November 4th because the dork in my brain will always remember that as the first time I saw Pearl Jam live in concert. photo credit] I know. In other Pearl Jam news -- PREORDER: PEARL JAM VS. AMES BROS
Podcast: Blogosphere Beats: The Muso's SA Blogosphere Colab
Original at Isolation
• Wed, Oct 3
By Lloyd The connection between Sonic Youth and Young are well documented, it was the Youth who helped to revive Young’s career in the late eighties and early nineties when they were touring buddies, by introducing him to new audiences as ‘the Godfather of Grunge’ during the Ragged Glory era. This...
BNB: graham nash box set
Original at bad
• Mon, Oct 1
By bh Crosby, me with Neil (Young), me with Stephen (Stills) and Neil, and me with Stephen, Neil and David." Among the material included in the box set will be unreleased tracks, as well as Australia with Stephen (for a Crosby, Stills and Nash tour), and then after Reuters/Billboard
Music Review: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live At The Fillmore East March 6 & 7, 1970 (Neil Young Archives - Performance Series)
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Nov 17
By Glen Boyd But this set is noteworthy for yet another reason. Live At The Fillmore East 1970 in fact, represents the first available live recording of the original Crazy Horse, when Neil was sharing guitar and vocals with the late Danny Whitten. The subject of several latter Neil Young songs such as "T...
Music News: Two New Neil Young Releases Expected In Stores Before Christmas
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Oct 19
By Glen Boyd Neil Young, fresh off a summer long concert tour with bandmates Crosby, Stills and Nash, and his annual appearance with Willie Nelson at this year's Farm Aid, will have two new CD releases in record stores in time for the Christmas season.
Toby Barlow: Farm Aid Reaches Legal Age
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Oct 1
By Toby Barlow When I mentioned I was going to check out the Farm Aid show down in Camden, a friend said "Farm Aid? Wasn't that in the eighties?" Granted, this is a friend who still worships Madonna, but yes, it was 1985 when Willie Nelson first kicked off Farm Aid with Neil Young and John then-still-the-Co...