Things are always busy down at the Neil Young Archives, but it feels like there’s a lot going on down there recently. Just a few weeks ago Neil released an extended version of 1990’s Ragged Glory, augmented with four new exceptional songs, entitled Ragged Glory – Smell The Horse. Last Friday he finally(!) released the…
“There’s a mansion on the hill, Psychedelic music fills the air…” – “Mansion On The Hill,” Neil Young & Crazy Horse Neil Young & Crazy Horse have released an expanded version of their 1990 album, Ragged Glory. The new version is expanded by four songs and has been rechristened, Ragged Glory – Smell The Horse….
Despite the fact that Neil Young, who is 77, has been quite prolific over the course of his late career, even I was surprised that he was back with a new album this quickly. When I speak of Young being prolific I’m not even talking about his Archival output from his vaults – the unreleased…
Sometimes good things can come out of bad ideas. Or maybe we should describe it as good things sometimes come from bad motives. My lovely daughter and her boyfriend were in town this weekend. They came in for the local Art Fair which was nice but let’s be honest, it was more of a rolling…
“If I could just live my life As easy as a song I’d wake up someday And the pain would all be gone…” – Neil Young, “Gateway of Love” As long time readers know, I’m terribly impressed with Neil Young’s archive management. Other than Bob Dylan I can’t think of an artist who does a…