PRE-ORDER: Neil Young's New Album "Homegrown"

Neil Young's album "Homegrown"
Neil Young's new album "Homegrown" is now available for pre-order.

Release Date: June 19th Pre-Order here

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From PR:

Neil Young puts it best: “This album is the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time”.

Recorded between June 1974 and January 1975, Homegrown was intended to come out in 1975 before Neil cancelled the release. The album has remained unreleased until now, achieving a legendary status among Neil Young fans in the process.

The album is made up of twelve Neil Young songs, of which seven are previously unreleased - “Separate Ways,” “Try,” “Mexico,” “Kansas,” We Don’t Smoke It No More,” “Vacancy” and “Florida” (a spoken word narration). Also included are the first recordings of “Love Is A Rose,” “Homegrown,” “White Line.”

“Little Wing,” and “Star Of Bethlehem” – different versions of which would all later appear on other Neil Young albums. Neil plays solo on some tracks (guitar, piano and harmonica), and is joined by a band of friends on other tracks, including Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Karl T Himmel, Tim Drummond, Emmylou Harris and Robbie Robertson.

Recorded in analog, and mastered from the original master tapes, this long-lost album is a wonderful addition to Neil’s incomparable catalog.

More on Neil Young's new album "Homegrown" and preview track "Try".


"Homegrown: Never Known to Fail"

Track list and details @ Neil Young's new album "Homegrown".

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PREVIEW TRACK: "Try" from Homegrown Album by Neil Young

"Try" | "Song of the Day" | Homegrown| NYA

As we have been covering for decades (literally), Neil Young's unreleased 1974/5 album Homegrown is coming ... someday. Today, the latest "someday" for Homegrown is now June 19 (more below).

Here's the latest on this oh-so elusive 45+ year old unreleased Neil Young album titled Homegrown. Neil Young Archives is now streaming the song "Try" as "Song of the Day", the first track on the 12 song archival album "Homegrown".

"Try" is one of the seven previously unreleased songs on the album. Background vocals are by Emmylou Harris with drummer Levon Helm, Tim Drummond on bass and Ben Keith on steel guitar. Per a comment below by Wardo:

The info card for Homegrown now has info cards for each track on the album. Star Of Bethlehem is listed as an alternate mix. The album artwork, with recording dates and performer credits, is up too.

(Thanks wardo!)


"Homegrown: Never Known to Fail"
Unreleased Neil Young Album
The album "Homegrown" was recorded in 1974 and 1975 and is the "one that got away", Neil writes on NYA. At the time, Neil considered "Homegrown" to be "too personal and frank" to be released and chose to release the album "Tonight's The Night", instead. The Homegrown album has been described by Neil as “the missing link between Harvest, Comes A Time, Old Ways and Harvest Moon”.

"My first ever narration with Ben ‘Longgrain’ Keith and live sound effects. Some beautiful music and fun rockin’ songs as well. This is the one that got away. I am stoked to share this with you.”

The official album release is now scheduled for June 19. Pre-orders for the versions on CD, vinyl and as a download start Friday, May 15th.

Neil Young wrote in 2019:

“I apologize.

This album Homegrown should have been there for you a couple of years after Harvest. It’s the sad side of a love affair. The damage done. The heartache. I just couldn’t listen to it. I wanted to move on.

“So I kept it to myself, hidden away in the vault, on the shelf, in the back of my mind.

But I should have shared it. It’s actually beautiful. That’s why I made it in the first place.

“Sometimes life hurts. You know what I mean."

Test Pressing of "Homegrown" by Neil Young
via Neil Young Archives

In January 2020, an image of the test pressing of the album "Homegrown" by Neil Young was posted on Neil Young Archives. The test pressing included a note from Reprise Records saying "This album is incredible!".

Neil comments:

"this is the first time in our 50 years working together that I have ever received a test pressing with a message like this".

via Neil Young Archives

In April 2019, when answering a letter on NYA, Neil wrote that: "The real 'Homegrown' album is coming out after Tuscaloosa." (More on Homegrown and Other Unreleased Neil Young Albums.)

The track list posted earlier based on rust chatter and John Hanlon's mastering video is now confirmed as:

A-side
1. Separate Ways (unpublished)
2. Try (unpublished)
3. Mexico (unpublished)
4. Love Is a Rose
5. Homegrown
6. Florida (unpublished)
7. Kansas (unpublished)

B-side
1. We Don't Smoke It No More (unpublished)
2. White Line
3. Vacancy (unpublished)
4. Little Wing
5. Star of Bethlehem

Most excellent! “Try” is one of my favourite Neil Young piano songs. I had the pleasure of seeing him perform this song live at Massey Hall in Toronto in 2007. I think I heard Neil play a “Try” teaser when he first sat down at the piano during the Fireside Sessions IV.

— Sharry Wilson (@SharryWilson) May 13, 2020

More on Homegrown and Other Unreleased Neil Young Albums.

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Rare Medley: "A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold" - Song of the Day | Neil Young Archives

A Man Needs A Maid/Heart Of Gold
Song of the Day | NYA

The Song of the Day on Neil Young Archives is the 2 song medley of "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" on Jan 19, 1971 at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada.

The video linked on NYA has film footage of Neil Young on piano from Stamford, Connecticut shot by Wim van der Linden several days later on Jan 22 synced with audio from Massey Hall.

The 2 song medley of "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Heart Of Gold" is extraordinary in that it documents the crucial evolution and separation of the 2 songs into distinct lyrical entities.

"Heart Of Gold" Lyrics
Song of the Day | NYA

More on Neil Young's song "Heart Of Gold".

Neil Young's song "Heart Of Gold"

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Neil Young Despairs: "in my life, I have never seen anything like this."

Song of the Day: "Don't Let It Bring You Down"
via Neil Young Archives (NYA)

Neil Young posts on his Archives (NYA): "in my life, I have never seen anything like this."

Today's Song of the Day is "Don't Let It Bring You Down" where the accompanying Post-it reads:

Don't Let It Bring You Down

11/17/18

in my life, I have never seen anything like this.

lots of love

One can only imagine the pain that newlyweds Neil Young and Daryl Hannah are experiencing after the loss of their home in Malibu, California. Their home was destroyed in the recent California fires which Neil has lashed out and lamented over to considerable reaction.

A special happy birthday to a loving friend and co-inspirer ✨✨.. @neilyoung ... Neil , I know I speak for my whole tribe of folks when I say you may have lost some houses , but you could never lose your home, which is in the hearts of we who love you always. 📸: Joe Martinez pic.twitter.com/k36u8o7yf5

— Lukas Autry Nelson (@lukasnelson) November 12, 2018

So our hearts and prayers go out to Neil and Daryl, as well as -- of course -- all who are suffering as Mother Earth weeps.

Daryl Hannah and Neil Young
SXSW Film Festival - Paramount Theatre, Austin, TX
March 15, 2018

For Neil to ask us to "Don't Let It Bring You Down" takes enormous strength such as what we saw in 2010 when his beloved car LincVolt was very heavily damaged in a fire.


LincVolt Burns
Foster City (CA) Fire Department fight Fire at Neil Young's Warehouse
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Here's what Neil Young wrote after the 2010 LincVolt car fire:

So now we pick up the pieces.

We are rebuilding. The reason we started this project has not changed. As a nation we are still excessively burning fossil fuels, doing damage to our planet that will hurt our children's lives and future generations as well. Our project is to demonstrate alternative energies for transportation that are clean. We're still in a race against time. On a project like this, setbacks happen for a reason and we can see that very well from here.

"Barn's burnt down. Now I can see the moon".

"Barn's burnt down. Now I can see the moon".

His strength, spirit and resiliency is truly inspiring.

This is a man -- who immediately after losing his "new" home with Daryl during his 73rd birthday weekend -- allows us fans a gift of a rare preview track to an unreleased version of "Mr. Soul" from January 1967?! The heartbreak and empathy are unbounded.

As my gift, on this my seventy-third birthday, I want to share this archives gem with you... https://t.co/tor50WKQ1A pic.twitter.com/Y0zQBgbkCg

— Neil Young Archives (@NeilYoungNYA) November 12, 2018

This much madness brings too much sorrow...

Lastly, thanks to all for the thoughtful comments here on a painful subject -- no matter where one stands on the spectrum.

California Wildfire - November 2018
Notice anything "strange"* about this fire?
(use *disCERNment, as always)

Actually, we think Neil had this figured out pretty well back in 2013. On the Australia/New Zealand tour leg, Neil Young debuted a new song "There's A Hole In The Sky".

The lyrics -- while somewhat general and vague -- are quite specific that Yes, There's Definitely A Hole in The Sky. There's something happening here. The evidence was irrefutable then.

Contrails? Chemtrails? Geo-Engineering?
Frame via "Already Great" (Official Music Video) by Neil Young + Promise of The Real

Even more so now. What it is, isn't exactly clear...

Be the rain. Be the wheat.

peace & love
thrashers
#WT1sWBWO

Neil Young asks "Who's Gonna Stand Up and Save the Earth"?
Zollhafen / Nordmole, Mainz, Germany 28 July 2014
Photo by Takahiro Kyono | Flickr
(Click photo to enlarge)

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