American Dream - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

released 11-22-1988

This was CSNY in 1988, my second studio album with the band. almost thirty years after Deja Vu. It was fun to see the guys again and make a record, but we were not as focused as we had been in the past and it showed. We recorded mostly at the ranch at Plywood Analog in the same room ‘Ragged Glory’ was recorded.

'This Old …

This great album by Particle Kid is a classic! A collection of new songs by Micah Nelson to stretch your mind and soul. Check Window Rock out here at NYA on Friday!
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Pre-order the Vinyl here.

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Wrote this song Old Man about 50 years ago and loved playing it with ‘Promise of the Real’ on the big green in Hyde Park. Thank you for being there LONDON!

Most of our shows are scrambled or over easy, but this one was sunny side up. We played in the daylight! Couldn’t do Vampire Blues.

We are having a blast! Our band is ready as we head into the UK. Eire will be our final show of this tour. We want to thank all of the people who came to these shows. The audiences here have been so supportive and welcomed us to every gig.

From the autobahn in Germany, with its solar, windmills and eco-ducts, cars traveling at free speeds, and beautiful chemical free countrysides, to the ferry rides …

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Outside Munich, now we’re on the highway and it already seems so far away. Thanks Germany, for making us feel so good. We want to come back again and again.
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Two great cities. It’s the people of Germany. They have such a good energy. We just feed on it. In Berlin, we rocked so hard. it was a beautiful story the way the songs came out. One after another. What a night to remember. That may be an album.

Mannheim. Inside a building. It rocked and rattled. Again the people. So great. I do love Germany. What a joy to play, but the spirits were …

Micah Nelson’s Particle Kid shares Origins of new “Stroboscopic Light”

From the new record, Window Rock

by Ben Kaye

You can learn a lot when you’re both a member of Neil Young’s backing band, Promise of the Real, and the son of Willie Nelson. Not only do you have the chance to learn some of their musical tricks, but you get to absorb wisdom from two of the most important minds in Americana. Micah Nelson, …

There is a feeling in this moment for me. We were checking in late at night. There was a piano in the lobby.

I thought of a song My Heart. I couldn’t remember it very well.

Practice time with Elliot and Dana. . .

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Everybody's Rockin' - Neil Young & the Shocking Pinks

released 7-27-1983

1983, This was a fun record to make! Ben Keith and Tim Drummond played with Karl T Himmel and I on this one with vocals by Anthony Crawford (International Harvesters), Larry Byrom and Rick Palombi. Geffen Records, in their unending search for commerciality, sued me for making this one! No hard feelings though!

I love Tim Drummond, Karl T Himmel and Ben Keith on …

NYA welcomes Lukas Nelson + Promise of the Real’s brand new record to the archive.

Hear our first guest album now at NYA! !

It’s located in the file cabinet near the front, next to playlists.

This great album with new songs from Lukas and the Real is here for NYA members to feel in X stream by NYA.

The Real is delivering for you with new songs in a great tradition. ‘Turn off the …

Trans - Neil Young

released 12-29-1982

TRANS is one of my best records, from a standpoint of being misunderstood. Trans was made with the idea of supporting it with a series of videos that went with the story.

Bots of all kinds, with their digital voices sang the words and melodies of a tale of communication for the disabled, those of us who cannot speak. Here, these folks, especially my son Ben Young, were cared …

Re-ac-tor - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 10-28-1981

This Crazy Horse studio album was well under the radar. ‘Shots,’ ‘Mo the sleaze,’ and ’T-Bone’ are among my favorites. Although this was not a big commercial success, it brings a smile to my face every time I hear it or think about it. “Who’s drivin’ my car now?” is one of my favorite Horse recordings. ‘Rapid Transit’ too!
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Hawks & Doves - Neil Young

released 10-29-1980

A redneck and a hippie, all rolled into one album.
I was playing some songs I had written . . . . . . . . .ny.

About five years ago, a writer, Jeff Giles, described the times surrounding ‘Hawks and Doves’. I like what he has to say because I don’t want to write it myself. Here it is:

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By the end of the '70s, …

On the way home now. The run is over. It’s not a tour. its a run. thats what the sound man says. we all feel great for our Northwest journey, through the beauty and the burnt forests of yesterday. Thanks to everyone who supports the music. It’s a gift
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We loved playing The Paramount, an amazingly beautiful theater, created generations ago for the performing arts in Seattle. . . .
Wow! From Vaudeville to Promise of the Real in almost one hundred years!

We were so happy to be able to do our new and old songs together in such a great and cosmic building. I hope it lasts forever. It’s so wondrous!

Thanks to the people who keep it going. You are all …

Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 11-14-1979

The live album is a great way to hear and feel the Horse. LIVE RUST is a pure live record. Rust Never Sleeps was many live tracks from two tours (‘The Boarding House’ and ‘Rust Never Sleeps’) with the audience removed from the mix and over-dubs added, creating kind of a hybrid live / studio sound.

‘The Boarding House’ is a film currently in pre-production …

Hi everyone.
We just played Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver for two nights, the Keller in Portland and then the Fox in Spokane! They are all great theaters and I loved playing them. I enjoyed cruising along beside the Columbia River. It’s so great. Tonight it’s the Paramount in Seattle! Wow! I am so lucky. No kidding folks. Last week’s shows were really cool. Solo acoustic was a lot of fun, doing many of my …

Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 6-22-1979

This album was made in 1978, side two containing four songs from my tour with Crazy Horse of that year and side one with several songs recorded in Nashville, Malibu and Fort Lauderdale.

This is a collection of songs I enjoyed playing with the Horse and my Nashville friends, Karl T. Himmel, Ben Keith and the great Joe Osborne on bass. Some of the …

Comes A Time - Neil Young

released 10-21-1978

One of my favorites of all the albums I have made, ‘Comes a Time’ stands by itself, a unique record, produced in Nashville with many of my life-long friends.

On many of these songs, recorded in Nashville, the late great Nicolette Larson sings with me. Recorded mostly with Ben Keith and Tim Mulligan producing, although Briggs produced two tracks as well . . .’Look Out for My …

DECADE - Neil Young

released 10-28-1977

DECADE was released in 1977 as a triple album. 35 songs recorded between 1966 and 1976 were included, five of them unreleased tracks, celebrating ten years of making records for Reprise and Atlantic /ATCO. I wrote little messages in longhand about each song and Tom Wilkes produced a beautiful cover for the project. Tom had created the original Harvest cover and was a friend of mine who used to …

AMERICAN STARS 'N BARS - Neil Young

released 5-27-1977

Recorded partly in the White House at Broken Arrow, and partly in different places during the previous 18 months, it is more of a report than an album concept of something.

Five songs with Crazy Horse, Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson were cut over a few days on the green board in the White House by Briggs and Mulligan. Violinist Carole Mayedo was there. That was …

LONG MAY YOU RUN - The Stills-Young Band

released 9-10-1976

This album, recorded with my old friend Stephen Stills, is a favorite of mine. Mostly because the music reminds me of those good times after Stephen and I met in Fort William Ontario Canada. The Squires were playing at a coffee house, the Fourth Dimension and Stephen showed up in a band called ‘The Company’ from New York. They played for a week and moved …

ZUMA - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 11-10-1975

In 1975 I was living on Broken Arrow ranch in Northern California but I had rented a place on the Beach in ZUMA to be able to visit my friends. One day I was talking to Billy and he told me he had finally found someone who could fill the void left by Danny Whitten’s death. His name was Poncho Sampedro. We played with …

The Squires Alumni lost another member this week, Ken Smyth was the Squire’s drummer during most of the Winnipeg years. Ken’s obituary appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press today.

Squire Jack-
He was such a quiet modest guy and we became good friends again after spending time together at the 1987 rock reunion/Kelvin High reunion in Winnipeg and that evening at the Blue Note Cafe.

Squire Neil-
I remember Ken as a guy who was …

I can’t wait to play in Vancouver again at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre where I started my first solo tour of Canada in 1971. That tour took me to Massey hall and the recording of Harvest a few weeks later. So I’m looking forward to this. Thanks for coming!

Making these shows extra special is my old friend Elvis Costello doing guest sets each night. Elvis’ songs and his history in music are amazing. These …

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT - NEIL YOUNG

released 6-20-1975

Tonight’s the Night was recorded in SIR (studio instrument rentals) an old building on Santa Monica blvd, across from Gold Star Studios in the early 70’s. SIR was a place where bands could rehearse in rehearsal rooms. It had a pool table. SIR rented instruments to studios in Hollywood, delivering and picking up all day every day.

Gold Star was the greatest Studio in Hollywood, with its …

SO FAR - CSNY

released 8-19-1974

I remember going to Elliot’s office early in the 70’s and seeing the cover of this record. First thing I noticed was OHIO was missing. If you don’t keep your eye on things, this is what happens. OHIO is my strongest recollection of CSNY, Crosby so strongly singing out “Why?” at the end of the song. . . . .. He had been with me when i wrote it.

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ON THE BEACH - Neil Young

released 7-19-1974

On the Beach had one of my favorite covers by Gary Burden. We had a wonderful day gathering and assembling all the things in the image, before we put them on Santa Monica Beach and shot the cover. The album was recorded by Al Schmitt at Sunset Sound in Hollywood.

Musicians - Tim Drummond, Rick Danko, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Levon Helm, Ben Keith …

TIME FADES AWAY - NEIL YOUNG

released 10-15-1973

‘Time Fades Away’ is taken from a tour in 1973, a tough time to go on the road, right after the death of Danny Whitten. With me on the tour, Ben Keith, Jack Nitzsche, Tim Drummond and Kenny Buttrey made up this wonderful band of musicians. Johnny Barbata joined the tour half way through down near New Orleans, and he can be …

Harvest - Neil Young

released 2-1-72

Much of Harvest was written about or for Carrie Snodgress, a wonderful actress and person and Zeke Young’s mother.

This album was loved by many people. I have written about it in the past and I want to share this with you: ‘Recording Harvest’ (previously in the Times Contrarian)

RECORDING HARVEST

The album Harvest is made up of a diverse group of sources - a live acoustic performance, London …

4 Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

released 4-7-71

CSNY shows were the most fun of anything we did in the band. Crosby was great onstage, the catalyst who kept us all bouncing off of one another. Stills and I in particular got off on great journeys together during ‘Southern Man’ and all the other long songs where there is room to jam. Crosby’s ‘Long Time Gone’ was always great. He delivered every …

AFTER THE GOLD RUSH - Neil Young

released 9-19-1970

AFTER THE GOLD RUSH was based on a screenplay by Herb Berman, a friend of my first wife Susan, and Dean Stockwell. After reading it, I wrote some songs loosely associated with the story and recorded them in a studio built under my first house and above the garage, high on a Topanga hillside.

Danny Whitten could not make the sessions but he did come in …

We just wrapped up with a beautiful Crazy Horse set. We all enjoyed the vibe. It was an unreal experience. Crazy Horse was floating in the zone. Nils, Billy, me and Ralphie all played like our life depended on it. The Horse Dream happened right in front of our eyes. The Horse is back. Wild and Free.

It was captured in high res and in a livestream by NYA. The rumbling horse was lost in …

What a feeling to be home in Winnipeg, especially now, with all of you. We are having a memorable time here. There’s something very special about this visit with the Horse. Seeing the old places where I started with my first band. . . . then playing the night in this grand old theater. . . . surrounded by people I love, life is surely good.
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Hello again NYA folks!
We are excited to let you all know we will be streaming the Neil Young with Crazy Horse show tonight from the Burton Cummings theater in Winnipeg, Canada‼️🇨🇦

Thanks to our NYA community’s great feedback, we were able to divine some answers to the confounding streaming issues...
The livestreams worked flawlessly for some, hiccuped for others and tanked for a few.

The good news is the problem was not …

Hi friends, and Thanks! - from the polar vortex in Minnesota and four wonderful nights for me and the archives crowd! Those are the people who search through the years on the NYA timeline to find and hear gems they may have never found any other way! Ranging from 1963 to present day, the archive is my complete music history in the highest res possible, limited only by the original master quality.

I am now …