"Pink Moon": Neil Young & Crazy Horse's New Album Title

CRAZY HORSE PLAYBACK!
via Neil Young Archives | Times Contrarian

The title of the new, upcoming Neil Young & Crazy Horse's album is "Pink Moon" per the posting for Album Of The Week | NYA.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE : 5Oth anniversary edition
Album Of The Week | NYA

In the posting on EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE : 5Oth anniversary edition on NYA, Neil writes "Now, coming from the Horse fifty years later, we have ‘Pink Moon’. That’s our next studio album."

Earlier, Neil Young disclosed that "Pink Moon" will have 11 new songs, ranging from 3 minutes to 14 minutes of music each, which: "We believe we have a great Crazy Horse album, one to stand alongside ‘Everybody Know’s this is Nowhere’, ‘Rust Never Sleeps’, Sleeps With Angels’, ‘Psychedelic Pill’ and all the others."

Neil went on to declare that "Pink Moon" is "one of the most diverse albums I have ever made".

The title "Pink Moon" -- while it *might* be a nod to Nick Drake's album -- is, most likely, titled thusly because the album was recorded under the Pink Moon (April-ish).

"Pink Moon" by Nick Drake (1972)

(Also, see more on the "Pink Moon". Also, see more on the "Harvest Moon". Also, see more on the "Wolf Moon". Lastly, what is the deal with Neil Young and Songs on Moons?. Incidentally, last time we checked with "Anne, our Lady of Northern Moons" -- who did a tally of Neil Moon Songs -- she counted 26 different moon songs in 1995?! That's certainly increased in last several decades. Sheer lunacy.)

Updated Header Banner on Rusted Moon

(is there any doubt that rusties have sort of fixation on moons? "But there's a full moon risin' / Let's go dancing in the light / We know where the music's playin' / Let's go out and feel the night.." Or maybe this all just some sort of phase we're going through on our way to The Big Shift?)

More on Neil Young Archives | Times Contrarian. Also, see Neil Young has been in the studio with Crazy Horse recording a new album.

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Billy, Neil, Nils, & Ralph
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Neil Young also indicates that a "Full Scale Crazy Horse Tour" tour is in the works.

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No Joke, Tune In This Weekend For A Semi-Big Announcement

"Pink Moon"

In the past, we've amused ourselves with some April Fool's Day jokes -- often at the expense of Neil Young, his management, crews and bands. (BTW, here's a few of our favorites from the past here, here and here.)

But not this year. No joking around. On the eve of the annual "Pink Moon", Thrasher's Wheat will be making an exclusive, semi-big announcement.

So what is a Pink Moon? When a full moon that appears in April is called the Pink Moon. This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. The Pink Moon of April is sometimes referred to by names associated with other signs of full spring. In other cultures, this full moon is sometimes call the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.

And there you have it.

So tune in to Thrasher's Wheat Radio on Wbkm Dot Org this Saturday, April 4 at 9:00PM ET to hear all the details.

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