NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING

Neil's not about that life, but it seems like some of these (that '71 show, the Tower show) would be better as RSD exclusives than full-fledged Archives titles.

to answer your question: "Did he just make some of these up for the hell of it?" the answer is yes.

is Over the Rainbow that Tonight's the Night UK show where it's a way more dark and confrontational vibe than the Roxy?

lol, at this point I figure Homegrown will just be 40 minutes of preamble to 'Tie Plate Yodel #3'

is Over the Rainbow that Tonight's the Night UK show where it's a way more dark and confrontational vibe than the Roxy?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 2, 2019 12:08 PM (three minutes ago)

yeah, that's the one. Lots of talk about the seniors in Miami with their electric scooters and whatnot.

Real heads know that Homefires is the later version of Homefries.

Homefries, the legendary lost Neil Young concept album about side orders.

cover art option
https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_1032/1458682719689/NeilYoungBreakfast530_l.jpg

I think there is an early version of T-Bone on there. "Ain't got no PO-tat-o/Ain't got no hooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmefriiiiiiiiieeeeees."

Archives vol. 2 has a release date! 7/24/20 ...

Homegrown, April 18
Return to Greendale, June 19
Rust Bucket, Oct. 16
Young Shakespeare, Nov. 27

Subject to change of course lol

Very cool news, but not exactly holding my breath over here.

Rust Bucket is the Catalyst show right?

That’s the one.
Homegrown is a 99 percent lock. The rest not so much.

Young Shakespeare?

film/album: "Young Shakespeare" from January 1971 at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut as "the earliest known film of any of my performances."
seems a little bit pointless since we've got both Cellar Door and Massey Hall from right around the same time, but oh well.

neil claims it's even better than the live at massey hall. it was recorded 3 days later

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2020/02/young-shakespeare-another-neil-young.html

Return to Greendale??

oops, meant to link to this: https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/article?id=Roadstories-Young-Shakespeare

unfortunately i have to embed a screenshot since NYA still doesn't allow copy/paste of text (loooooooooooool)

https://i.imgur.com/CdZ5sPS.png

Damn, was hoping it was Neil reciting sonnets over feedback loops.

Return to Greendale??

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 19:20 (five minutes ago) link

My DMs to Neil campaign worked!

Dogg...

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Greendale live album!

actually rumor has it he reworked Greendale's story so "Doghouse" could fit into the narrative

turns out the whole album is a dog's dream

What's the over/under on Neil scrapping all of these upcoming releases of a Coronavirius inspired concept album with Promise of the Real called Handwashing?

60/40

that sounds way too plausible

It'll be an album of 20-second songs to sing whilst handwashing.

but you have to buy the special toothbrush on the NYA store

next Archives: 100 gigs of FLACs on a USB toothbrush

look out momma there's a mouth sore oozing from your gums

"I got a PONO toothbrush"

sung to the tune of "I got a hip-hop haircut"

ok so if I've got this timeline right:

-Neil tours early 71, solo sets, hangs out with Briggs who's living in Toronto
-Briggs records the Massey Hall show, tells/yells at Neil that it rules and needs to come out
-Neil hems and haws about a live album, then changes his mind and puts out Harvest instead
-Briggs, as usual, complains

Fast forward a few decades:

-Neil digs out the Massey Hall tapes, admits 'Briggs was right, this rules', puts it out
-wants visuals to go along with, so he takes the footage from the Stratford Theatre shot for a Dutch documentary, puts it together

-2020 rolls along and now Neil decides to put out the Stratford show, the audio and the film again
-claims it's 'better' than Massey, so basically back to ignoring Briggs

I say forget 'em both and stick with this:

https://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/mqc/731_large_1.jpg

Record Store Day 2020 Postponed Due to Coronavirus Concerns

wasn't Homegrown supposed to come out on RSD? looooooooooooool, seriously, this album will never be released

yeah but a lot of those type of RSD "releases" are just timed to coincide with RSD and are widely available after

Did Neil create a world wide-pandemic in order to subvert the release of "Homegrown"? Eat a peach.

This place is slipping; how come I had to learn about this album on Stereogum?

Neil Young has announced a new archival album set for release in 2021. Titled Road Of Plenty, it includes a smattering of ’80s recordings including a live take of the titular “Road Of Plenty” — which later became “Eldorado” on his 1990 album Freedom — captured in Minneapolis with Crazy Horse in 1986. Young believes this to be the best version of the song. Also on the tracklist are a number of studio recordings captured at the Hit Factory in NYC while rehearsing for Young’s 1989 Saturday Night Live — the one with “Rockin’ In The Free World” that rejuvenated Young’s career and essentially launched his ’90s run as a benevolent elder of the grunge movement.

In a message on his Neil Young Archives site, Young explains:

“ROAD OF PLENTY” is a song with a long history, finally morphing into “Eldorado” on the album ‘Freedom’ back in 1990. I tried it out with Buffalo Springfield in 1986 and it was my fault we didn’t get it together at that time and have a reunion, tour and album. I don’t even know why. It was my own fault. I should have done it. Apparently I was distracted by other things at the time. Life was moving fast, perhaps a bit too fast for me to see.

‘Road of Plenty’ lived on with Crazy Horse on the road in a 1986 tour. We have a monster take of it! With the VOLUME DEALERS working again, Niko Bolas has mixed a real masterpiece! How this song escaped is hard for me to believe….

There is a ROAD OF PLENTY album coming in 2021 and it includes that magical night in Minneapolis were the Horse nailed the song. Also included are rarities from that period, including a 17 minute studio version of ’60-0′ with the Bluenotes and the original studio take of ‘Fuckin Up’ — recorded at the Hit Factory in NYC with Poncho, Charley Drayton (bass) and Steve Jordan (drums), the band that played with me on Saturday Night Live when we did ‘Rockin in the Free World’ and ‘No More.’

During the rehearsals for that show, we recorded some amazing music at the Hit Factory in NYC, all of which is in ROAD OF PLENTY. Moving around a lot during that time, I was restless and it shows in this music. Niko and (THE VOLUME DEALERS) have been working on this project now for a while and I think it will be a highlight of 2021…. ROAD OF PLENTY, another album to look forward to here at the Archives!

Hang in there folks, we will get through this all together if we are meant to. Life will never be the same and that’s not bad at all. Look at what we will have…

Love one another and be true to our beautiful EARTH. The future is ours to save.
love!
be well,
ny

So there you go, a lot of information on Road Of Plenty, albeit no official tracklist or release date. Too bad about that Buffalo Springfield reunion that never was!

This guy is a moron.

"Try" from Homegrown is now streamable from the Archives site, and it's just gorgeous: https://neilyoungarchives.com/info-card?track=t1974_1211_04

As expected, Ben Keith and Emmylou Harris make this thing glow. And the major 7th chord he sneaks under the line "We got lots of time" is a really nice touch. Will sit nicely alongside other lighthearted country/folk-mode Neil from that era like "Star of Bethlehem" and "Human Highway"--pure cozy warm-blanket music.

I've been infuriated for years that it's taken so long for Homegrown to come out, but if it's at this caliber all will be forgiven...

NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES BOX 2: IT'S REALLY HAPPENING 2 U

(note, i haven't been able to figure out how to get the Archives website to show me the tracklist, but tylerw and pals are talking it up and it's there, so possibly i've just been fooled by the neil young archives website AGAIN! at any rate, i'm officially sounding the ilx neil young bullhorn. looks like it's out 11/20/20.)

ok tyler set me straight! it's in the tiny little icon at the top which is a link to the TIMES-CONTRARIAN

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1

LOL, or wait, the times-contrarian reports that it comes out 9/20, not 11/20!

note: the file cabinet folder for Archives 2 is still empty, and has a release date of 11/20

lol

lol neil young for pushing me to this point, because i cannot copy and paste the text in your NYA, or even resize the display to get a decent screenshot

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wow is this really gonna happen?

release date is listed as 11/20/20 ... no way it'd ever be delayed. no way!

I believe

even with the annoyingness of neil including previously released discs here, this looks AMAZING.

LOL, or wait, the times-contrarian reports that it comes out 9/20, not 11/20!

note: the file cabinet folder for Archives 2 is still empty, and has a release date of 11/20

― Karl Malone, Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:28 AM (twenty-two minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

lol

― sleeve, Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:28 AM (twenty-one minutes ago)

listen, i'm just going to be straightforward with this. i was "listening to homegrown" this morning before learning about this news, and in my screenshot excitement i didn't realize that today is 9/20/20. for some reason i saw today's date above the tracklisting (seeing how it's a news item in the neil young archives time-contrarian, with a dateline) and thought it was the release date.

sorry about that neil, your website is fantastic and it all makes a lot of sense to me

in addition, time collapsed for me, personally, several months ago - it's all the same month man

This is the first Neil release announcement since, what, 2010? that does not mention vinyl.