We are excited to announce that Neil Young Radio is coming to the Archives. It's for those times when you just want to listen to Neil's music nonstop at the push of a button. Simply tap the radio button on your app, website, on your car and you will be able to experience music selected randomly from his entire catalog, just like a dedicated radio station. There will also be occasional commentaries from Neil about …

Over the past year Neil has removed his records, CDs, and streaming music from Amazon in protest of Jeff Bezos’ personal and financial support of Donald Trump and his destruction of the once great Washington Post newspaper.

Now, the final connection to Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the division of Amazon that hosted our website and apps, has been terminated. NYA is now running on DigitalOcean.

Over the past two months, NYA’s software team planned …

I want to let you know that our transition from AWS (Amazon Web Services) to Digital Ocean to host the NYA infrastructure is proceeding on schedule and should be completed in a few more weeks. We appreciate the support Digital Ocean has provided to NYA to expedite this move.

While migrating a massive high-resolution library and site like NYA is a significant and costly undertaking, the move to Digital Ocean aligns with my need for …

NYA recently added two new file drawers to house Outtakes and music from Friends & Families. This improves usability and provides a way to easily add new content and for you to easily find it. The new content can be accessed in the apps from the Menu. We are still working out a few bugs related to some tracks in the Outtakes drawer not playing, and that should be corrected within the next couple of …

One of the best features of a Rust membership is the access to Timeline Concerts, so we wanted to do a quick explainer of how this works and how to enjoy them. You can find them directly from the Concert Playlist, as well as finding them from the Timeline while you’re exploring the tours.

What are they: Timeline Concerts are live concert recordings from the NYA vaults, transferred from their original recording format and presented …

Rust members get unlimited access to:
Timeline Concerts – Live audio recordings of Neil’s concerts. Currently there are almost 50, and new ones being added continuously. All concerts are exclusive to NYA.

Movietone - A collection of hundreds of Neil’s videos and full-length movies. Many of them are exclusive to NYA.

Timeline Concerts are live concert recordings that come from the NYA vaults, transferred from their original recording format, and presented here at the highest …

Neil and his new band, The Chrome Hearts, have released their debut album, "Talkin To The Trees" via Reprise Records. The album features ten new songs, including the first single, "big change."

The Chrome Hearts features Spooner Oldham (Organ); Micah Nelson (Guitar and Vocal); Corey McCormick (Bass and Vocal); Anthony LoGerfo (Drums); with Neil Young (Guitar, Harp, Piano, Vibes). All songs were written by Neil Young, co-produced by Lou Adler and Young, and recorded at …

Howdy and happy Wednesday, there’s a new timeline concert up!

Neil Young & The International Harvesters at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1, 1985 is now fully live and listenable on NYA!

Patron David Skoglund has requested this one a number of times, so I’ll let him talk you into dropping whatever you’re listening to and listen to this instead.

I was 16 in 1985. That summer I worked at the Minnesota State Fair. Capping …

3/19/25

Changes to the Times Contrarian

While we continue to promote the work of independent journalists by posting their work in our opinion sections, Viewpoint, Democracy and American Voices, we are sensitive to those that come to NYA for the music and prefer to avoid the political news. As a result, we’ve divided the Times-Contrarian into two sections, Music News and World News. Just select your area of interest by clicking on the appropriate button …

November 22, 2024

Hi y’all, and happy Friday!

We’ve just put Glastonbury 2009 up on the tour timeline, so you can spend the weekend listening to this set and pretending you’re Ed:

Neil and the band on one of the greatest stages in the world - the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
I'd broken up with my girlfriend but neither of us was willing to relinquish our festival tickets so we ended up going together (though …

Today, a dynamic piece of music history, produced by CSNY, is released for the first time. Live At Fillmore East, 1969 by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is now available on vinyl (2LP) and CD from Rhino. The great concert, recorded at the Fillmore East in New York City on September 20, 1969, is a recently discovered, masterpiece multi-track recording from the band’s first tour, weeks after their legendary Woodstock performance.

The recording features both …

Announcing the availability of "Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)" via Reprise Records.

This limited edition deluxe box set features 22 discs filled with 198 tracks, including 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased versions, and 11 films—4 of which have never been seen before. It also includes a 176-page book and a poster.

Don't miss this chance to own a piece of music history. Secure your copy today!

Visit the Greedy Hand Store to order yours …

by Rick Shearer aka Proto-Rustie

PART ONE

 This wonderful tale originally appeared on Hyperrust.org in June and July 1998. Neil had been promising the release of the first volume of his Archives for a good while, and had most recently been saying it would be released “in July”. Rick Shearer, it seems, took him at his word…
For those who don’t know, the “Missing 6” were six of Neil’s albums which had at that …

By Robert Broadfoot

I don’t know about you, but I certainly get the impression that the Neil fan community is incredibly well served. I ought to admit up front that I am not too familiar with what happens with other artists out there. But I somehow doubt there is a site anywhere dedicated to a major artist which is as wide-ranging and replete with information, actual playable hi-res music, films, live shows and ‘ephemera’, as …

By David Clarke

In Part 1 – Here We Are In The Years, David Clarke looked at how the Neil Young Appreciation Society was originally founded together with Paul Makos, and the very first issue of the society magazine Broken Arrow published in August 1981.

By the time the second issue of Broken Arrow Magazine was in preparation in late summer 1981, a team had been assembled. Andy Cox was now fully on board, Grahame …

Terry Erickson knew Neil from Fort William, Ontario when Neil played there briefly with the Squires in the early 1960s. Terry was also with Neil on that famous last run down the long decline near Blind River, in Neil’s hearse Mort in June 1965. And Terry was the man who took Neil to Toronto on the back of his Honda 90 for the next chapter of both their musical careers.
In the first part of …

I never dreamed I would start the new year without my dear friend, Judy Greenberg. She left this earth on December 15, 2025. She called me in early December and told me about her grave diagnosis. She had advanced pancreatic cancer and did not have long to live. I took this news really hard but tried to be strong for her. I was blessed to be able to tell her that I loved her and …

On October 16th 2025, my band Harvest stepped onto the stage of Ireland’s National Concert Hall alongside the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and a specially assembled choir – the ‘Hearts of Gold’ – to celebrate Neil Young’s 80th birthday. Together, we performed 19 of Neil’s greatest songs to an audience of 1,200 people. It was an astonishing event – an experience that surpassed anything we had imagined.

How did this spectacle come to pass? It all …

I first met Judy Greenberg in her role as moderator of the Members section of the Neil
Young Archives (NYA) in July of 2021. Judy had asked the question “Can a song
change the world?” I wrote a response titled “Neil Young Sang Songs That Changed My
World”. While helping me edit my response we learned that we lived only a 25 minute
drive apart, and we continued our communication after my article was completed,
…

My very first Neil Young show was in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 28, 1993, with Booker T. & The MGs. Neil had not performed in Sweden in over ten years, so the frontman of the support act said, in the end of one of their own songs, “I know you’ve been waiting for this a long time,” and then sang, still within their own song, “Tonight’s the night…” The front man of the support act …

I've always smiled whenever I heard the lyrics of Neil's song T-Bone because I believe I know what inspired it. Perhaps this story may either spoil your love of it or enhance your understanding. For me, it's one of my treasured bits of Neil trivia and memories from my youth.

In 1974, at the age of 14, I worked at the Bella Vista and Alex's Restaurants along Skyline Blvd. on Kings Mountain in Woodside, California. …

Language fails me, so I’ll say just this. Millions of folks hold Neil Young close and I have only grown more appreciative of his profound artistry over decades….he has given me the exhilaration in college of running home with a bootleg album in 1971 with such joy…..and now in 2024 an equally epic experience of thankfulness and completeness when Robert, my 5 year old grandson, the joy of my life, only wants to hear ‘Rockin’ …

I am very happy to share this article by Allen Farmelo which explains why Neil is right about sound quality -- which thereby helps explain why I love listening to recorded music so much more since my life changed in 2016. I will tell you how.

In 2016, I was recovering from a heart attack, and I found myself seeking purpose in my life, since I realized I was lucky to be alive. By chance …

Calling them “entry points” seems way too tech-ey for me. But what else to call a song, a program, whatever it is that moves you into the “fan” category?

In the case of Bruce Springsteen, all it took was hearing an advance tape of “Born To Run” on WBCN months before the album came out. With Roxy Music, it was hearing “Out Of The Blue” getting out of work and getting the album, then realizing …

Where – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California (holds 4,280).
When – Opening night, April 24, 2024.
Set List – 1. Cortez the Killer; 2. Cinnamon Girl; 3. Scattered; 4. Don’t Cry No Tears; 5. Down by the River; 6. The Losing End; 7. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere; 8. Powderfinger; 9. Love and Only Love; 10. Comes A Time; 11. Heart of Gold; 12. Human Highway; 13. Don’t Be Denied; …

By David Clarke

Come with us if you will to a dim and distant past, to England in 1978. There was no internet, no world wide web, no digital cameras, mobile phones, or CD recorders and certainly no established Neil Young fan groups. Margaret Thatcher’s conservative Britain was looming on the horizon and I had moved from the English Midlands down to London to take up a new assignment as divisional accountant for our company’s …

I remember Paris. Yes indeed, well most of it. Palais des Sports with Crazy Horse, 29 May 1987; Le Zénith, 7 July 1993 with Booker T. & The MGs. And now it’s 1996 and I am contemplating going to Paris for the 4th of July show on Neil’s tour to promote his new album Broken Arrow. But to go or not to go, that is the question.

4 July 1996 – Lord have Bercy!!

Back …

“Fort William is like a forgotten chapter in my life. It had an immense impact on me because I really started to grow on my own. Fort William was more important than Toronto for me in terms of growth as a singer and songwriter. I gained a lot of valuable experience there.”
Neil certainly has fine memories of his formative years on the road with his first major band The Squires. And the town of …

Tuesday 6th September, 1983. So I’m waiting in the wings of the stage at the Blossom Music Center somewhere in the middle of Ohio, to go onstage at the beginning of the intermission in Neil’s set whilst he’s changing into his Shocking Pink mode. I’m supposed to be interviewed by Dan Clear (real name Newell Alexander) a genial, friendly TV anchorman-type of person. I’d had a chat with Dan earlier in the day. I’d been …

It’s June 4, 1996, and it’s about 7:30 AM. I’m in line with about 50 people for a possible Echos show at the Old Princeton Landing outside of Half Moon Bay that evening. No one knows for sure if there is a show tonight. There have been gigs happening on and off since March 18, but the last show was May 23. There were a pair of shows at the much larger Catalyst in Santa …

In 2007, Neil & The Chrome Dreams Band were doing the Chrome Dreams Continental Tour in the U.S. and Canada. I caught two of the shows, in Portland on October 22 and Seattle the next night. Neil was on fire, and I saw he was going to tour up in Canada in 2009. I asked my daughter and my wife if they would like to come with me, as I needed more! The three of …

Sitting in my friend John’s car, snapping in our seatbelts before heading out for lunch, John asked me, “Why Neil Young?” I had never thought about the why’s of being a fan of Neil, so an answer didn’t readily come to mind. I lowered my head, thought about it, and broadening the question, I asked myself, “Why do we prefer some artists over others?” After some thought, I realized that we appreciate artists that make …

Hi, I am Mike from Ventura, California. I have been a fan of Neil Young since junior year in high school. The first concert was a blast. My friend from 1st grade drove his mom’s ‘59 Cadillac with the taillights in the rear wings. His family was very Mormon, so it took a little work to talk him into letting us light just one. As soon as we got the okay, we lit three! We …

I would like to confess that the first time I ever heard the album Time Fades Away, it changed my entire life. Its message was emotionally harsh, yet comforting, and the perfect music to hear at that point in my life. For me, it's one of the most significant works of art I found that came close to explaining what it's like to live with depression and neurodivergence and still keep your head above water …