Judy Greenberg: 19xx - 2025 - Gone, but not forgotten

Judy Greenberg: 19xx - 2025 
Gone, but definitely not forgotten, a tribute for Judy Greenberg, a Neil Young fan to the utmost core of her being.

From a tribute by Robert Broadfoot via Neil Young Archives.

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RIP Judy Greenberg

“When the light of time is on us

We will see our moment come,

And the living soul will carry on.

Light a candle in the darkness

So others might see the way,

Light a candle in the darkness, when you go."

Judy passed from us on 15th December. 

Only a few short weeks ago, she received the totally unexpected news that she had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and that there was no hope she would survive. She told only a few of her closest friends and family while she decided what plans to make - especially in view of the large Neil fan community she belonged to and which had become one of the main focuses of her life.

No one, not even Judy, expected that her passing would come so soon, and she was still making plans almost to the last. Apart from the love for her own family, Judy lived for Neil, for his music, for her work for the Neil Young Archives and of course for her Facebook groups and all the wonderful people she got to know through them. Each and every one filled her with immense joy and a sense of purpose and fulfilment. When Neil heard of her serious illness, he wrote to her and Judy glowed with love and pride as she read out his words to a small circle of friends.

I think we all know that Judy would want her work and legacy to continue at all costs so we are now looking at the best ways to make that possible. Her work for her Facebook group needs no introduction or explanation. Everyone sensed her total commitment to it and she carried out her ‘guardian’ duties with respect and understanding and above all with love for the thousands of Neil fans with whom she came into contact. Love and only love.

With many of us, she also maintained direct, personal contact behind the scenes. She and I, like many others no doubt, had many lengthy exchanges over the last few years. We didn’t always agree on everything but there was always one absolute constant, her undying love and respect for Neil. I shall certainly miss our talks greatly as I am sure everyone will. It is simple testimony to her abilities as a leader and ambassador that her Facebook group, which had slumbered for a long time until she became Administrator at the end of 2017, grew from some 20,000 members to well over 40,000 in only five years under her careful leadership.

So let us continue Judy’s work and legacy out of respect and love for who she was and what she has achieved. May her memory be a blessing and may peace and love be upon her.

Tribute by Robert Broadfoot

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Thank you for the heartfelt words Robert.  Judy will be dearly missed.  We briefly crossed paths with Judy at the Neil solo shows in Chicago back in 2018. We were both eagerly awaiting the concert to begin and trying to get to our seats. While brief, we're glad we at least had an exchange before we put the keys in our ignition and hit the road.

More on Judy and Neil memories @  Neil Young Archives | T-C.

Also, more on gone, but not forgotten, Neil Young fans:

•  A Tribute to Pete Long: The Definitive Neil Young Fan
• Rustie Lauri "Over & Over" Lieber: 1964 - 2019
• Rustie Carol "Roadeyeluv" Snyder Slips Away
• Remembering Rusties 2019: "One of These Days" by HarryO

too late, too soon. they sleep with angels...

So many fond memories and dear rustie friends. Someday, we're gonna sit down and write a long letter...

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"Ohio" Revisited: Is Song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young An Anthem For Our Times? | Rock 'n' Roll with Me

Crosby Stills Nash & Young
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The following Substack "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Revisited  |  Rock 'n' Roll with Me  by Ellen from Endwell asks the question if the song is "An anthem for our times?".  (Thanks John K.!)

Spoiler alert -- yes & no. 

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"Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Revisited 

by Ellen from Endwell 

Given the popularity of my post on the song “For What It’s Worth (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound)” by Buffalo Springfield, which is now close to 4,000 views and rising (available here), I have to conclude that people are desperately searching for a way to make meaning out of what’s happening around the world and in their own countries.

In particular, I suspect that people are trying to figure out some way to respond to what they feel are steps in an egregiously wrong direction—perhaps even illegal, immoral, unethical, or tyrannical—by those in charge of running things, without risking themselves, their family, friends, and communities, or their way of life in doing so.

My post on the song “Ohio” is now starting to get the same attention—a song written and put out by Crosby Stills Nash & Young in the immediate aftermath of the Kent State Massacre in 1970, which was soon thereafter followed by the Jackson State Killings.

If you’ve been around as long as I have, you’ve been feeling a strong sense of deja vu for a while now. We have been here before. We have been through something eerily similar to this. That’s why I’m sharing the “Ohio” post below, so you can see why I’m saying that.

I do believe in my heart, mind, and soul that, as Martin Luther King declared in his remarkably inspiring sermons and talks using the title of a famous gospel song as his key message, “We Shall Overcome.”

As Dr. King explained, we shall overcome not simply because we wish to do so. We shall overcome because “somehow the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” and because “truth crushed to earth will rise again.”1 If you need inspiration in these difficult times, here it is:

And here it is in the song whose title he cited, “We Shall Overcome,” sung by the glorious Joan Baez. (You can find the other two iconic versions, one by gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and the other by the famous folk singer-activist Pete Seeger, here and here.)

Herewith, without further ado, my previous post on the tragic events provoking the creation of the song “Ohio” by Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

This is a fantastic song in so many ways. Thank you, Neil Young and CSNY. 

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Full Substack article "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Revisited by Ellen from Endwell.

Also, see:

Why Neil Young’s “OHIO” has earned it’s place on the National Recording Registry 

The Truth About The Kent State Massacre

The Girl in the Photo: Kent State, Ohio - May 4, 1970

40 Years Since 4 Dead in Ohio: Kent State Massacre Remembered

4 Dead In Ohio: May 4, 1970

53 Years Later: "Ohio", Kent State & Tin Soldiers Still Marching | #MayTheFOURBeWithYou

50 Years Ago: “Four Dead In Ohio” | Decaturish

51 Years Later: "Ohio", Kent State & Tin Soldiers Still Marching | #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Ohio: Kent State 45 Years Later

Kent State, Ohio 47 Years Later: The Tin Soldiers March On & On...

Kent State University on May 4, 1970 Library of Congress Exhibit photo by Howell PosnerOriginal photo by photojournalism student John Filo 

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Neil Young Reveals Lyrics of New Song In Progress + Another Corporate Boycott

IT'S A NEW DAYNeil Young Archives
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Earlier this week, Neil Young hosted a Patron ZOOM call where he revealed that he has written six songs for his next album. 

“One of them is really interesting. I call it ‘The Second Song.’ I woke up one morning thinking about this melody. I went, ‘Did I write this already or is this already a song?’ I tried to think, ‘What is it?’ I figured it must have been a song I wrote, but I couldn’t figure out what song it was. And so I wrote a bunch new lyrics and so I have a second song on that now. I’m excited about that one. 

And I like all the others I have going.”

Neil also revealed some of the lyrics for a new song in progress: 

“Soon I might be going

So I wanted you to know

It was Christmas in the Rockies

Just like summer with no snow

The Crimson Pirate was showing at the movies

It’s the one you really should see

The water is like diamonds

And the ships are on the sea

The answer to our questions is lingering in the mist

And the revolution is coming like a fighter with a fist.”

Also, in a statement on Neil Young Archives, he called for a boycott of Amazon saying. "I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon".

Yesterday, another Neil Young Archives post titled "IT'S A NEW DAY", he ups the ante further

linking to an article listing contact information for the CEOs of 11 corporations – Amazon, Meta, American Airlines, AT&T, Microsoft, Home Depot, Verizon, FedEx, UPS, Dell, and Apple – and urges readers to reach out.

“Let them know you are opposed to their doing business with ICE and the un-American and illegal actions of ICE, including unwarranted killing, tear-gassing, kidnapping, and arresting of innocent people.”

From  Neil Young Archives post titled "IT'S A NEW DAY":

Mornin' folks….It's a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can't use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a supporter of TRUMP with big $! What can i do? I'm checking with our office to see if i can get a T-Mobile Flip phone. T-Mobile is not a supporter of the Trump Fascist regime.

This is not a joke. i love my old Flip! One idea i have to keep Flip is just to change services and drop Verizon service like a cold fish. It's the money i give Verizon for my service that's doing the damage! Not my old phone I bought years ago. This might work! I'm going to see if I can just drop Verizon and move to T-Mobile.

On the Editorial page here at NYATC, I follow the list of companies backing the Fascist Trump Regime. One by one, I am cancelling all contact with each of them. This is not easy, but the alternative - me giving money I got from you to the Regime that backed the illegal killings of two Americans. That can't happen. So I keep going back to the list on Editorial Page 5 of the NYATC. I listen to the man in the left column, telling me what I can do to help, and I am trying to do it. I'm trying to not support the companies that support the regime with huge donations, just to cover their own asses, while people are being shot on the streets of America, not just Minnesota, AMERICA!

As I type this, HEY THIS IS AN APPLE COMPUTER!—— I have to stop and re-assess. No more upgrades! That feeds Apple, Apple supports "The Regime'.

I'm stopping right now to call my business manager and make sure i do not upgrade anything from Apple. Ok. she says I can still keep the computer. It's paid for already…but no more upgrades. That is money going to APPLE now. Tim Cook, the CEO, falling over backwards to support the regime! He was at the 'Melania' premiere at the White House just the other night, kissing ass. Yikes! What a world.

I have to re-assess everything I am doing. I will sue Apple if my computer doesn't work without the new costly upgrade. What about Warner Brothers?

I'll keep you posted folks.

LOVE

neil

 More on details on Neil Young's Patron ZOOM call earlier this week.

Neil Young on Patron ZOOM 

January 27, 2026

image via Rusted Moon

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Neil Young Patron ZOOM Call Update: New Songs & Archives Volume 4 Release

Neil Young

@ Lost Planet Editorial, Santa Monica, CA - Sept. 9, 2019
Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP

 

Here is an update from Neil Young's Patron call earlier today. Many thanks to Greying Rider for his excellent reports via TW comments. 

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Neil Young on Patron ZOOM 

January 27, 2026

image via Rusted Moon

Hello Everybody,

Notes from the Patron call:

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Neil looks fantastic.

Says it’s the largest group of Patrons ever. May offend some people and get that number down!

Phil Baker reads questions. Zeke, Frank Gironda and John O are also not he call.

Will Neil play in USA in 2026?

Some possibilities. Focused on making new album because he’s got new songs.

New outtakes in the works?

Yes in the work all the time. Neil calls himself a giant outtake. Working on them all the time.

There will a list on the NYA music page with all the outakes and links to find them.

Does he have any ideas to mobilize and galvanize the collective musicians to stand against the Trump?

No ideas. Every American should use their conscience to stand up for beliefs and not be intimidated.

Are there plans for another benefit show in 2026?

Probably.

Neil are you writing new songs?

6 news songs right now.

Please tell us about your new songs.

Reads a verse of a new song. Sound like decent lyrics.

What does he think of the atmos mixes?

Go to Apple for these. Neil likes the original mixes and what he did in the first place. What the Archives are about. Niko’s atmos mixes are great and Vol 4 is full of them.

Asked to say a few words about Judy Greenberg

Neil says she was a wonderful person and a great supporter of his music. Life is sometimes a rough ride but she had to go. Zeke chips in to say she was the first subscriber. Neil says she was a one in a million. She loved music and will always be around.

Archives Volume 4 release date?

No release date. But there is a lot more information and then he (quickly!) reels off a list. [This is what I got. Please add anything I missed or got wrong in the comments.]

• ’87 Crazy Horse with Blue Notes
• Freedom sessions’
• Raggedly Glorious (3 sessions)
• Deep in the Valley of Hearts. New album
• Natural Beauty
• Philadelphia
• Booker T & MGs
• Sleeps with Angels film with Briggs
• Mirrorball film
• Year of the Horse with cool version of Sedan Delivery
• Amazing Trocadero from ’97 with CH
• 97-99 Silver and Gold
• Catalyst
• Ocean Way
• Live album from the WiIltern (Joh Hanlon not listed to yet).
• Greendale. Return and Vicar Street. Vicar street video

Ever recoded a song singing a song in another language?

Not that I know of.

How is Canary getting on?

Last 50 pages. Final edits. Getting ready to do art (watercolor painting). End of this year. Maybe 2027. Working on it since 2017. Sci fi. Quite a story.

What in pipeline that most excited about?

All the same to Neil. Like the new songs. One called ”The Second Song”. Woke up with the melody in his head. Thinks must have existed already and so wrote new lyrics to it.

Any chance we will get a Neil Young biopic film?

Says he hopes not! Does not know how you can do that while still alive. Got some people he knows working on something but does not want to get involved. Wants to make a record.

Will independent venues make a recovery like vinyl?

Has a go at Amazon.

How is the train set?

Fantastic. One of his greatest endeavors. Art of creating things form real things.

How determine set lists for every show to show?

He does it by feel. Write down the setlist before the show and then deviate from it.

Zeke mentions that Chrome Hearts can play anything he pulls out of the hat.

Question about if he will organize a show to mobilize musicians.

Neil’s not going to organize, he follows the muse. Other people can do this better.

How does it feel to be 80?

Feels good. Thought he’d be scared until he was 80. What the heck? Who cares? A lot of things don’t matter that used to matter. Likes to stay physical. Walked 3 miles at 8,500 feet yesterday in his new shoes to not slide around on the ice.

How are Ralph and Billy?

Happy, healthy and well. Poncho too. Spoke to him last week. Played them the Trocadero disc. They loved the ‘new’ old stuff.

Trocadero has 7/8 songs that Neil hardly ever played with CH: Razor Love, Big Time.

How decide if play a song acoustic or electric?

Depends on how he feels. Some more fun acoustic and some electric. Admits not a good answer, he just makes things up on the go.

How has the Greenland free access gone?

Reaction has been good.

How feel about old classic songs?

If tired of it, then don’t play it. No rules. It’s like the wind, just comes and goes. Bob doesn’t plan what he plays. He plays what he feels like playing. Follows the muse to play how he wants, even if not recognizable.

What’s on the new live album?

First song to be released is Silver Eagle. And then Big Crime. Incredible version of Cortez from Bergen. Best version ever in his opinion because it came out different when he sang it. Stopped each verse a line early and let the verses sync into a big hodge podge. Tells a whole story from a new view.

Status of Tape Sessions log from Volume 3?

John says on his desk. Got a list last week.

When is Coastal coming to NYA?

Frank Girona says its on the way but Neil jokes that business gets crossed with art.

Law suit x Chrome Hearts?

Frank says worked out an arrangement but can’t comment otherwise. Neil will continue using the name.

Spoken to Stephen recently?

Yes, spoke last week. Keeps in touch with these guys.

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That's all I got. It's good to share.

Peace. Toby

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Hey, super appreciate the near real time updates Toby!   

More on earlier Patron updates @  Neil Young Patron ZOOM Call Update: August 2024.

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Neil Young: "I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon" + Gifting NYA to Greenland + New Songs

Neil Young vs. Amazonimage via Rusted Moon
Last year, Neil Young announced that he would withdraw his music from Amazon due to big corporations "selling out America", as well as, Jeff Bezos support of the Trump administration.

More recently, in a statement on Neil Young Archives, he is calling for a boycott of Amazon.  

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer the president. The president's international policies and his support for ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon. There are many ways to avoid Amazon and support individual Americans and American companies that supply the same products. I have done that with my music, and people who are looking can find it in many other places.

Record stores provide all my vinyl and CDs, while the digital world has many alternative options to purchase my music if you like it. My music will never be available on Amazon as long as it owned  by Bezos. My position is unfortunately harmful to my record company in the short term, but I think the message I'm sending is important and clear.

Thanks for buying music locally or from independent Digital services."

NY

More on  Neil Young vs. Amazon: Neil Young To Withdraw Music from Amazon.com.

Plus, in another statement titled "A MESSAGE FROM NEIL" via Neil Young Archives, Neil Young is now gifting NYA subscriptions to citizens of Greenland.

"I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government.

It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality. This is an offer of peace and love. All the music I made during the last 62 years is yours to hear. You can renew for free was long as you’re in Greenland. We do hope other organizations will follow in the spirit of our example.”

A MESSAGE FROM NEIL

via Neil Young Archives

This news should not be "harmful to [Neil's] record company".

 Statistics via Thrasher's Wheat

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Per statistics via Thrasher's Wheat, Greenland traffic does not even register.  Traffic from countries such as Bangladesh or Iraq rank higher.

Which brings us to a recent letter to Neil on NYA asking whether he is writing new songs about the current political situation in the USA. Neil Young's response:

"I have a few songs in the works – five or six."

More on Neil Young's ongoing editorials challenging President and I.C.E. 

 

Our Brother Alan in Seattle: Take America Back - January 10(See Neil Young: "ICE cold here in America" w/ 100+ comments)

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

"as time explodes"

via NeilYoungArchives.com

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