"Sugar Mountain" Neil Young composed the song on November 12, 1964, his 19th birthday, at the Victoria Hotel in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), where he had been touring with his Winnipeg band the Squires. Its lyrics are reminiscences about his youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Neil Young made a surprise return to the stage at a benefit concert in Vancouver last night.
The event honored Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki’s 90th birthday. Young, a vocal supporter of Suzuki's work, was one of a long list of celebrities to attend. Also on hand were Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Bruce Cockburn, Chantal Kreviazuk and Sarah McLachlan.
Heart Of Gold
.Neil Young surprised the audience with a performance of Heart Of Gold and“Human Highway,” creating one of the most emotional and memorable moments of the evening. The entire room seemed frozen in the moment as everyone took in what was happening on stage.
Human Highway
Young's last stage appearance before the Vancouver show was the Painted Turtle benefit concert on October 25, 2025, making the David Suzuki celebration his first performance in almost exactly a year. The set was brief but pointed: two acoustic classics drawn from the early stretch of his catalog that cemented his reputation as one of rock's most distinctive voices
Tweeter Center, Camden, New Jersey July 2, 2003
Greendale is the 27th studio album by Neil Young. Young and Crazy Horse's Greendale is a 10-song musical novel[12] set in a fictional California seaside town of the same name. Based on the saga of the Green family, Greendale combines numerous themes on corruption, observation of the passing of time, environmentalism and mass media consolidation.
Falling From Above
Neil Young’s “Falling from Above” is a song that reaches into the heart of the American dream and finds it faltering under the weight of time and change. At first listen, the song may seem like a simple story about the Green family, but dig a little deeper, and it becomes clear that Young is painting a picture of an America at a crossroads.(SongLexicon)
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Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey July 2, 2003
Greendale is the 27th studio album by Neil Young. Young and Crazy Horse's Greendale is a 10-song musical novel[12] set in a fictional California seaside town of the same name. Based on the saga of the Green family, Greendale combines numerous themes on corruption, observation of the passing of time, environmentalism and mass media consolidation.
Young recorded the album between July and September 2002 at his Broken Arrow Ranch. The sessions were produced by Young and filmmaker L. A. Johnson. The sessions feature Young on guitar, organ and harmonica backed only by drummer Ralph Molina and bassist Billy Talbot of longtime collaborators Crazy Horse. Unlike other works credited to the band, it does not feature a rhythm guitarist. Frank "Poncho" Sampedro does not appear on the album but did perform with the group during the album's tour
Young recorded each song as he wrote it, beginning with "Devil's Sidewalk". "The songs started to unravel, I saw the story, what happened next. I wrote the songs one at a time and recorded each one before I'd write the next one. The songs just happened. First thing in the morning, I'd pick up a guitar, play two or three chords and go, 'That's the blueprint. That's what my soul told me, so that's what it is.' Then I'd go to the studio. I would write the words, without guitar, in my car. I'd keep stopping on the way – write two verses, go a hundred yards, stop, write some more. I kept moving, and writing, until I got to the studio. Whatever I had then, that was the song. "Devil's Sidewalk" – the recording is the first time I sang it, the first time the band had ever heard it."
Grandpa's InterviewYoung did not start with an overall premise and write the songs to fit
the overall story, but rather wrote each song one by one, and the
overall story emerged from the individual songs themselves. "I simply started writing. I don't know exactly what happened. I've
never written songs with characters in them before. I simply wrote a
song and then thought: 'Hey, that's interesting.' And then I wrote
another song. In the first song, I found it exciting that there were
characters with names, that conversed.
Bring Down The Diner
he next day I wrote a new song with the same characters.""I just let it out. I never tried to make things fit together or anything. I just kept on going. Luckily I could jump from character to character and so continuity wasn't that important. And I found out later that the continuity was golden all the way through."
Sun Green/Be The Rain
A contemporary review of the album by The Guardian succinctly rehashes the album's storyline as follows: "Grandpa Green is an ornery patriarch who finds himself in the media spotlight when his great-nephew Jed accidentally shoots a cop. Grandpa then suffers a fatal heart attack while fending off a reporter. The death somehow prompts his granddaughter Sun to become an eco-warrior, until FBI surveillance prompts her to leave Greendale for good."
This song is Neil's shot at his contemporaries in the music business who sell their music for corporate ads. This song was originally released on the album "This Note's for You" in April of 1988.
Young remembers writing "This's Note's For You" while on tour: "I remember writing it in my bus, turning to my driver and saying, 'Jesus Christ, this must be the most idiotic fucking song I've ever written.' I still can't believe that such a dumb little song could have helped resuscitate my career the way it did."
https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/02/neil-young-blue-notes-1988-04-23.html
The Loner,from Neil Young,s first album. Cinnamon Girl fron (Everebody This Is Nowhere)
Live in Stadspark Groningem - Summerstage 1 July 2025
Freedom is the 19th studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on October 2, 1989. Freedom relaunched Young's career after a largely unsuccessful decade. After many arguments and a lawsuit, Young left Geffen Records in 1988 and returned to his original label, Reprise, with This Note's for You. Freedom brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album
We recognize Steve Cropper,Donald (Duck)Dunn,Booker T Jones,Jim Keltner,Larry Gregg,the man with that tight blond hairdo is G.E.Edwards(Hall & OatesBand,Bob Dylan)
The collaboration with Booker T & the MG's went so well that a world tour was started in 1993, of course Europe was also visited.
On Monday 5 July 1993 Neil was in Ahoy in Rotterdam
Of course Arthur was there, although it was a long time ago I can still remember the concert well. A very inspired Neil Young, the beautiful organ of Booker T, a surprising performance of Dock of the Bay, of course Like a Huricane and all those beautiful Neil Young songs, in short a memorable evening.
"Harvest Moon" is a song written by Canadian and American singer and songwriter Neil Young, released in November 1992 by Reprise Records as the first single from his 19th album bearing the same name, Harvest Moon (1992). The song was both written and produced by Young, reaching No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] and Rolling Stone ranked it his 30th best.
"Cinnamon Girl" is a song by Neil Young. It debuted on the 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, which was also Young's first album with backing band Crazy Horse.
"World On A String" album Tonight's The Night
Neil Young -guitar/vocals .Rufus Thibodeaux – fiddle .Ben Keith-pedal steel.Spooner Oldham-piano
Anthony Crawford- guitar, banjo, vocals.Tim Drummond-bass.Karl Himmel-drums
"Are You Ready for the Country?"
"Are You Ready for the Country?" is a song written by Neil Young and released on his 1972 Harvest album. The track features Young on piano backed by the studio band dubbed The Stray Gators, comprising Jack Nitzsche on slide guitar,Ben Keith on pedal steel guitar,[Tim Drummond on bass, and Kenny Buttrey on drums. Backing vocals on the track are by David Crosby and Graham Nash. The recording was made in a studio set up in a barn on Young's ranch
"Are There Any More Real Cowboys"(album Old Ways)Are there any more real cowboys? is a song written by Neil Young. In a duet with Willie Nelson, he released it in 1985 as a single with the song I'm a memory sung by Nelson on the B-side. The single landed at number 37 on the Canadian country music chart.
Neil Young Billy Talbot Ralph Molina Frank Sampedro
11 March 1976 Budokan, Tokyo
Country Home (Ragged Glory)
Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse are back! The "Love Earth" tour
Down By The River
When Neil Young sang "rock and
roll will never die" near the conclusion of his tour-opening LOVE EARTH
concert with Crazy Horse Wednesday in San Diego, you believed him.(
My My,Hey Hey
The final encore was an eight-minute rendition of "My My Hey Hey (Into the Black)," whose line There's more to the picture than meets the eye could be a synopsis of Young's career and his dogged determination to do things his way, every time, no matter what the trends of the day may be.
"Star of Bethlehem"'s lyrics are about coming to terms with the end of a relationship. The song was originally intended to conclude the shelved album Homegrown in 1975. Its lyrics are inspired by Young's breakup with Carrie Snodgress. Young would debut the song on tour with CSNY with an additional verse. In a 1975 Cameron Crowe interview for Rolling Stone, Young indicated a fondness for the track and an eagerness to release it, singling out the "beautiful harmonies" of Emmylou Harris
