COMING SOON: Neil Young To Annouce 4 East Coast Shows

Neil Young Archives

As we indicated recently, Neil Young is preparing a major concert announcement.

Check NYA Page: 4 EAST COAST SHOWS. The link goes to a placeholder headline on Neil Young Archives (NYA) Times-Contrarian.

NYA Times-Contrarian

Presumably, warm ups for Farm Aid 2018 concert.

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"Campaigner": Neil Young Archives Song of the Day

"Campaigner"
Neil Young Archives Song of the Day

"Campaigner" is the Song of the Day on the Neil Young Archives today, September 7.

Hmmm. Why might "Campaigner" be the Song of the Day? Well your guess is as good as ours. Over the decades it has been a routine exercise for fans to replace "Richard Nixon" with whoever the current U.S. President might be at the time. And the song seems to work consistently from Administration to Administration.

So go ahead and play the "Campaigner" game with us.

"Campaigner" by Neil Young - 1976

I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life
towards that goal.

I hardly slept the night you wept
Our secret's safe and still well kept
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got
Soul.

Traffic cops are all color blind.
People steal from their own kind.
Evening comes to early for a stroll.
Down neon streets the streaker streaks.
The speaker speaks,
but the truth still leaks,
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got it,
Soul.

The podium rocks in the crowded waves.
The speaker talks of the beautiful saves
That went down long before
he played this role
For the hotel queens and the magazines,
Test tube genes and slot machines
Where even Richard Nixon got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got it,
Soul.

Hospitals have made him cry,
But there's always a free way in his eye,
Though his beach just got
too crowded for his stroll.
Roads stretch out like healthy veins,
And wild gift horses strain the reins,
Where even Richard Nixon has got soul.
Even Richard Nixon has got
Soul.

I am a lonely visitor.
I came to late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life
towards that goal. "Campaigner", from the 2017 album Hitchhiker, includes a newly relevant verse deleted from the version that appeared on 1977's Decade: "The speaker speaks, but the truth still leaks."

But what does Neil Young know about politicians anyways? Or, what do politicians know about Neil Young?

More on "Campaigner" and the album Hitchhiker.

Neil Young | Hitchhiker
(Click to enlarge & preview tracks)

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Will Courtney: Crazy Horse Cover of "Look At All The Things"

'Crazy Love' by Will Courtney

Singer/songwriter Will Courtney has a cover of Crazy Horse's "Look At All The Things" on his new album 'Crazy Love' due out on September 21 on Super Secret Records.

Will says that 1971 masterpiece by Danny Whitten and Crazy Horse "Look At All The Things" is one of his all-time favorite songs. You can check out the track below.



Will Courtney and his band are all diehard Neil Young and Crazy Horse fans and he's a long time reader of this blog going back to the early 2000s. He's been around the indie/Americana Texas music scene for a bit and started with the Austin-based band Brothers and Sisters.

The 'Crazy Love' album flows as if a chronicle of an emotional journey through love, breakup, drowning the pain, reconciliation and the eventual redemption of album closer, “Partner In Time” which is a paean to Will’s wife.

Here's the Track List and check out Will Courtney and more on Will Courtney's website.

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Neil Young Calls Out Big Tech ... Yet Again

"What Buying Really Means"
Neil Young Archives (NYA) Times-Contrarian

Neil Young continues to call out Big Tech.

Earlier this year, Neil Young went after Google claiming that Tech Giants Rip Off Artists. More recently, Neil has challenged Facebook and their lack of "Social Responsibility".

In Neil Young's latest posting on Archives (NYA) Times-Contrarian, he calls out Amazon -- and CEO Jeff Bezos specifically -- for not paying a "living wage" to Amazon employees. Young makes his case that the "World's Richest Man" can certainly afford to pay a "living wage" and utilizes his "friend", U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, to make the case.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: World's Richest Man
"Over 2 million times the net worth of the median US household"

At the end of Neil's statement, he requests that supporters of Amazon paying a "living wage" to sign a petition at Sign Bernie's petition to Jeff Bezos:.

So who's going to stand up save the EARTH?

Neil Young
2014-07-12, Hyde Park, London, England
Photo Paolo Brillo |Facebook
(Click photo to enlarge)
Also, see:

• Neil Young: Tech Giants Rip Off Artists
• Neil Young's Big Decision On Archives: Facebook and Social Responsibility
• Neil Young and Daryl Hannah Attend Monsanto Roundup Trial
• A Message from Neil Young: Removing sales of non-organic T-shirts and other products that damage the EARTH from my concerts and my web stores

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Lukas Nelson Covers Neil Young's "Tell Me Why"

Here's a video of Lukas Nelson covering Neil Young's song"Tell Me Why".

Lukas says:

"One of my favorite songs from Neil's "After The Gold Rush" album. Hope you enjoy it!"

Lukas Nelson & Neil Young - 2015

More on Lukas Nelson and Neil Young.

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"Union Man" by Neil Young: TW Song of The Moment

An occasional feature here at Thrasher's Wheat is our Song of The Moment. Also, see previous Songs of the Moment.

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Happy Labor Day!

The TW Song of The Moment is "Union Man" by Neil Young.

UNION MAN

I'm proud to be a union manI make those meetings when I can, yeah
I pay my dues ahead of time
When the benefits come I'm last in line, yeah.

I'm proud to be a union man.
Every fourth Friday at 10 am
There's a local meeting of the A F of M, yeah!

This meeting will now come to order
Is there any new business?

Yeah, I think 'Live music are better'
Bumper stickers should be issued.

What was that?

'Live music is better' bumper stickers
Should be issued

The gentleman says
'Live music is better' bumper stickers
Should be issued

All in favor of what he said
Signify by sayin' "ay"

Ay!

If, however, you are opposed
Signify by saying "no".
I'm proud to be a union man.

"Union Man" (Remastered) - Hawks & Doves by Neil Young

An Original R@D "Live Music Is Better" Bumpersticker
Also, see more on the question of whether Neil Young is proud to be a union man?

After all, isn't all about the "Ordinary People"?

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Songs by Neil Young For Weddings: "Rachel Getting Married" | Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

"Rachel Getting Married" (Dir. Jonathan Demme, 2008)
Song "Unknown Legend" by Neil Young (Sung by Tunde Adebimpe)

There are many songs by Neil Young that have been performed at weddings over the decades.

"Unknown Legend", from the 1992 Neil Young album Harvest Moon is a frequent wedding song. Here the song "Unknown Legend" is sung by Tunde Adebimpe in the Jonathan Demme film "Rachel Getting Married" released in 2008. For the wedding scene, actor Adebimpe skips the vows and sings directly to his new wife (played by Anne Hathaway) an a cappella version of Young’s “Unknown Legend”. Also, Tunde Adebimpe is the lead singer of the band "TV on the Radio."

More on the film "Rachel Getting Married" (Director: Jonathan Demme, 2008) and Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - "Rachel Getting Married". (Also, more on Jonathan Demme and Neil Young.)

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"Harvest Moon" - Neil Young, MTV Unplugged - 1993

Another perpetually popularly appropriate wedding song by Neil Young is "Harvest Moon" from the 1992 album.

For us here at Thrashers Wheat will always hold a special place. Many may recall in 2008 when a couple in love requested "Harvest Moon" in concert while Neil Young performed in Brisbane, Australia. And by some extremely wonderfully little miracle, Neil Young performed "Harvest Moon" that night and it brought a tear of joy for many around the world.

Or the time A Wish for "Harvest Moon" is Granted for Liza at the 2009 concert in Köln, Germany.

Here are the 3 Harvest Moon stories:
- Steve and Danielle in Brisbane, Australia
- Liza in Germany
- Gavin in Dublin, Ireland

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Other favorite Neil Young Love/Wedding songs, in no particular order:

- Love In Mind (TFA)
- Already One (Comes a Time)
- Cinnamon Girl
- I Believe In You
- Like A Hurricane
- Such a Woman
- Look Out for My Love
- Will to Love
- Pardon My Heart
- Motion Pictures
- Razor Love
- She`s a Healer
- Transformer Man
- Change Your Mind

Then -- of course -- there are those perennially Inappropriate Wedding Songs by Neil Young ...

Feel free to drop a comment below on your favorite Neil Young Love/Wedding song -- if you'd like.

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