Tribute to Neil Young: AmericanaFest Pre-Grammy Salute Concert on Jan 31 + New Tour Date

Tribute to Neil Young: AmericanaFest 

An AmericanaFest Pre-Grammy Salute concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA on January 31, 2026, will pay tribute to Neil Young's songs, with proceeds funding MusiCares programs for music industry professionals.

Performers include Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Price, Jesse Welles, and Molly Tuttle,

Live streaming available on volume.com. 

Also,  new tour date added on June 17th with a show at the Eden Sessions in Cornwall, UK.

 LOVE EARTH 2026 UK/EU TOUR Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts ( See Dates @ 2026 UK/EU TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED )

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On This Day, Neil Young Had A Very Good & Bad Day

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse

On This Day, January 19, 1969, 57 years ago today, Neil Young wrote 3 major songs: "Cowgirl in the Sand",  "Cinnamon Girl" and "Down by the River"  for the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere with Crazy Horse. 

Neil was suffering from the flu with a high fever in bed when the 3 song compositions came to him.

All of the songs for the album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere were written and recorded during the period between January 17, 1969 and February 8, 1969. This amazingly prolific two year period captures Young at the height of his creative genius. 

It was a time where "Neil Young was rock's Joe Dimaggio." 

Live at Massey Hall 1971

Neil Young

On this day in 1971, Neil Young recorded his legendary solo acoustic performance at Massey Hall, later released as 'Live at Massey Hall 1971'. A quiet night that became folk history.

Thanks Eric Alper | X !    

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Bobby Weir: 1947 - 2026

Bobby Weir: 1947 - 2026 (Livestream details below ) 

A tribute for the Grateful Dead's Bobby Weir will be held on January 17 in San Francisco.

In keeping with tradition here, the connections to Neil Young are few but not insignificant.

Neil Young, Bobby Weir & Rob Wasserman - 1994

In 1994, Neil Young and Bobby Weir collaborated on the album TRIOS by Rob Wasserman with the song "Easy Answers".

TRIOS by Rob Wasserman - 1994

"Promises made in the dark

Dissolve by the light of day (easy answers)

Ain't no telling what will be

Always been that way (easy answers)

Just one thing I know for sure

Someone got to pay (easy answers)

Ain't no easy answers

That's what I got to say (easy answers)"

Here is the song "Easy Answers" with Neil Young and Bobby Weir from the album TRIOS by Rob Wasserman.

In 1991, nearly 500,000 fans came to pay their respects to promoter Bill Graham at the memorial concert held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The concert featured many of the acts Graham had promoted and nourished over the years including Jackson Browne, Santana, CSNY, the Grateful Dead, and many others. Certainly Neil Young and Bobby Weir crossed paths on that memorable tribute day.

As Neil Young sang that day in dedication to Bill Graham and probably would to Bobby Weir: "Long May You Run."

(Thanks Dionys, Richie C and others for input!)

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What Might Neil Young's 2026 Bring Us?

 LOVE EARTH 2026 UK/EU TOUR Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts 

You ask, "so what might Neil Young's 2026 bring?"

Good question and the big ticket item is that Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts that kicks off the LOVE EARTH 2026 UK/EU TOUR on June 19, 2026 in Manchester, England.

Additionally, a comment by Dionys whets the appetite with expectations: 

• Mirror Ball Live  (w/ Pearl Jam)
• Love Earth World Tour 2024 double album
• Ben Keith's Seven Gates / Christmas at the Ranch re-release
• Gulf of Mexico/U.S. tour w/ The Chrome Hearts
• Tennessee (The Int’l Harvesters rediscovered 1985 tape)  
• Homefires (thanks dinkers!)

Gulf of Mexico/U.S. tour w/ The Chrome Hearts

via Greedy Hand Store

Thanks for the "informed speculation" Dionys. That pretty well tracks what we're seeing as well.  Obviously, all eyes on tour planning.

So what did we miss?

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Neil Young: "ICE cold here in America"

Our Brother Alan in Seattle: Take America Back - January 10
Per the latest Neil Young Archives posting, Neil Young says it's "ICE cold here in America."

"While looking out the window, I see the biggest mess I've ever witnessed, right here in the United States, this great country I have believed in for decades. It's right here. Right now.

Wake up people! Today The USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with the Trump falseness so they can hold their unearned positions in his inept government, a Congress full of Republicans acting like idiots with no conscience… Yes. He has divided us. How did we elect these creeps who have no spine, no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA.

We need to take Trump at his word. Make America Great Again. It won’t be easy while he is trying to turn our cites into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability.

Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up. Peacefully in millions. Too many innocent people are dying.

It’s ICE cold here in America. There was no ICE before Trump. No soldiers in the streets before Trump. Every move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power.

He knows nothing about love. He does not know who you are. Use your love of life, your love of one another, your love of children, yours and theirs and ours. Peacefully. Now."

ny 

More on  Neil Young's frustration @ NEW VIDEO: "as time explodes" by Neil Young.

"as time explodes"

via NeilYoungArchives.com

"What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?" or ... What Really Happened at Kent State?

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