Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

Tired of reviving other Neil threads for this! Let's keep it in here. Who wants to do this?

To celebrate the upcoming release of ‘Americana’ - an album that will deliver his authentic and rustic touch fused with traditional American folk songs - Neil Young is inviting musicians to submit their cover of one of the listed ‘Americana’ classics for the chance to have their rendition featured on his social media channels.

Neil Young’s Choice

The winner will have their submission featured on Neil Young’s social media channels and will receive $1000.

People’s Choice
The highest voted artist will receive a copy of Neil Young’s ‘Americana’ release and in addition will receive $500.
Get Involved

Submit by: May 7, 2012
Vote: May 8, 2012, 10am PST - May 14, 2012, 10am PST
Winner Announced:May 28, 2012

http://www.talenthouse.com/cover-song-for-neil-young

i'm definitely more intrigued by this than i would be by an album of new compositions.

his authentic and rustic touch

I get the image of his Pono music format being handcrafted by gnomes.

It'd be awesome if his next album was called "Canadiana," and included covers of, like, Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Leonard Cohen and BTO.

well ....
Made In Canada - Randy Bachman feat. Neil Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4v-O9vdoRI

He did collaborate with Geddy Lee once...sorta...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk

oh, canada.
that bachman song's lyrics are pretty lol, but it's got some pretty rad neil guitar action.

OMG, that Northern Lights video! And they called themselves Northern Lights! Because they're Canadian!

It's a shame that Randy Bachman isn't a tribute to Merge Records' a la Michael McDonald's Motown.

"I'm working...but I ain't working for you!"

haaaa.
the northern lights thing is amazing. Sending their love down a well. Geddy definitely brings his A game. hockey team finale is perfect.

The Northern Lights clip only makes it weirder that Dan Ackroyd was at USA For Africa

I saw Daniel Lanois at a small venue a few weeks ago (at the behest of a friend--zero interest myself). I have to admit, a small part of me was hoping Neil would suddenly walk onstage.

I'm sure a Canadiana album would proabably consist of the Logdriver's Waltz and a bunch of Stompin Tom Connors songs.

looks like there are going to be live dates!

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, along with many others, will be co-headliners for the fifth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park from Aug. 10-12.

Other co-headliners include Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Jack White and the Foo Fighters.

Will this festival spawn a Neiltallica album is what I want to know.

Hmm this sounds like a call to reunite the "Little Dog" (version 1) line-up from the Loutallica tribute album!

Wondertallica

You know the most likely person in that group he'd collaborate with is Jack White, and boy, do I not want to hear that record.

a veritable symphony of whiny vocals presumably

yeah, aside from the pearl jam record (which i like!), I'm glad that neil has avoided all-star kinda records, or records where he's working with some young hip producer.

i mean, i'm sure the neil / dangermouse album would be rad ...

he made a movie with Devo.

it was rad.

ha well, yeah it was. he should totally make an album with devo.

he did a great "Hey Hey" w them in Human Highway, it's also on Sad Movies. Haven't heard the new Dangermouse-produced Black Keys, but the first one def had its Neil-compatible moments, esp when Marc Ribot jumped into the fire. There's somebody I'd like to hear with Neil, even in a buckskin mode: Ribot wrote this first-class country ballad, "Meds," sung by Lee Ann Womack on Buddy Miller's Majesty of The Silver Strings (instrumentals get crowded on that 'un, what with Miller, Ribot, Frisell) Re younger musicians (well, Ribot's younger than Young), there is or at least was a revelatory version of "Down By The River" on YouTube, Neil with Phish--revelatory to me, who never prev had much use for 'em. But they bring a whole different vibe, an eerie yet more fluid "River" than Crazy Horse's caveman approach (not a complaint about CH, just sayin). The other best guest-shot clip I've seen (also on YouTube)is from his R&R Hall of Fame induction, where he's playing lead on "When The Levee Breaks," with Led Zep. Page, Jones, and I guess Jason Bonham provide this shuddering monster riff, NY and Plant go to town. Plant plays a bit of cool guitar too, but he knows when to get in and out.

Oh yeah, and the thing w Phish turned out to be 14 minutes long, but just went right by! From Farm Aid, forgot the year.

jesus christ Neil is a force of nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSj164pwEM

hey guys...this is from thrasherswheat....um....says its a transcript of WB execs hearing the album and asking Neil about it...but like this is kinda nuts and I can't quite tell if it's some super insider parody/fantasy thing or real, but it's presented as real...wtf

http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2012/04/behind-scenes-at-americana-album.html

Do we owe it to the song, the song's author or the music fan to prostrate ourselves before the energy that created that piece of music and deliver it into the 21st century in a way that retains, and even helps to convey or preserve a clear idea of the song and its history? Or, more importantly, to not undermine reality or contribute to confusing, or even rewriting, history?

nobody speaks like this in conversation, much less Neil Young

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the official press notes. It's a hoot.

(I mean, obviously it's "fake," but I wonder who wrote it. Tom Waits?)

It was written by Neil, who is turning into his dad. It happens to all of us -- but Neil's dad was cooler than most.

Dudes, look at the date of that post.

Do they celebrate April Fool's Day in Canada?

Christmas, Easter, Halloween--we're all over that stuff.

Ah, the Neil & Phish "Down By The River" is indeed still on YouTube, now from several sources, several lengths--and this one even includes an "Arc' jam. Whole thing's from Farm Aid '98:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoMSBkEQboQ

haha oh god i remember watching that down by the river with Phish, they are just such a terrible rock band i almost feel bad for them

yeahhh. there's also this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfpaZGKhVk

haha the girls on acid are getting emotional in that vid

it was an important day in the 90s

neil really should have changed the lyrics at least once to "forever meeeeeeee, forever meeeeee!"

the arc jam w/phish has it's moments so far...too bad phish's drummer is such a fucking china crash piddler stop it dude god was that woodblocks u turd?

tyler do you know a lot about the dead? i'm no expert or anything but i like them...but were they a pretty pathetic operation towards the end? that vid is pretty terrible

Yeah, never liked that one, Re Phish, Hang in there for "River" (disclaimer: never seen the "Arc" part before)

re: the dead, i think they had their ups 'n' downs towards the end there. that performance is definitely terrible, but it may have been literally unrehearsed.

but back to neil young, y'all see this? www.themidnightcafe.org/?p=3639

Some of this stuff works better w YTC, YouTube Converter. The free version from cnet just converts to mp3, paid might do more--anyway, sometimes seems better when you don't have to see it, for some reason (I get tired of highlighted beardos livin' the dream)

i might try that, i find phish pretty grating just to look at so it could be poisoning the well of sweet exploratory jams

cool link tyler! that was one of my big disappointments on Archives 1, having no mynah birds...but maybe it was a problem with licensing and motown I guess...still that was kinda the band that i'd heard the most about and with the bruce palmer/rick james tie-in i think most fans were most curious about

yeah it is pretty cool stuff -- some of it sounds kinda Love-ish, though that was probably a coincidence, I don't think Love even had records out when the Mynah Birds were recording (could be wrong, not sure about the dates).

yeah i think that would have been pretty early for a love influence...seemed like randy bachman was neil's main influence at that time based on shakey

it is a pretty weird chapter in Neil's career -- you'd have to think that everyone in the Mynah Birds was like -- "Motown! We've made it!" And then, nothing.

or neil won't even release these songs.

^yep

Ha.

lol at first i misread "psychedelic pill" as "psychedelic PHIL"

imagining like neil invented a "towlie" style kids cartoon mascot for peyote

neil doing unspeakable things to his guitar on fuckin up

lol ok, psychedelic pill is definitely the weak link of the new songs.

Man, some of these new songs are awesome. "Walk Like a Giant" ... goosebumps!

I wonder what it must be like to be Neil Young and know that you can get away with writing two chord songs that last 25 minutes and that people will think it's awesome because it sounds like Neil Young? Seems like a terrible responsibility, but the dude has proven he knows just when to step up.

BITCHES QUIT TALKING DURING RAMADA INN

on my third listen of "walk like a giant" -- so great!

Jesus, he opens with "Love and Only Love"?! I think I might regret missing this tour.

since this is the americana thread, here's the only song he played from it http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS6/NY2morrison/NY2morrison208.mp3
jesus chariot. pretty great -- hope he brings at least a few more to the stage for future gigs. but it seems like he's moving on to the next album already!

As well he should, man. Nothing on "Americana" is close to "Walk Like a Giant," which I'm starting to think of as one of his best songs, ever.

Comparisons are the barnacles of ILX. Americana is a different deal, and I'm sold American on it from the get-go! Though could def live without "Tom Dula" and maybe "Gallows Pole."

"Gallows Pole" was a mild disappointment for me; a bit too jaunty for the Horse. The rest of Americana is ace, though.

"Giant" is fucking insane, especially the breakdown. And the display on my iPod abbreviates the artist name to "Neil Young & Crazy Ho..."

Indeedio, glad for that too-- and weren't they gonna put out another album this year?

That's sort of my point (xposty): like "Americana" or not, there's not a single song on there I would want taking up a fraction of the time that "Walk like a Giant" takes up.

no meters, no worry. But speaking of time Here he is or was at that Outside Lands (awkward name but it is outside, in Golden Gate Park)
from RStone:
By the time Young did take the stage, with his band Crazy Horse, the infamous San Francisco fog had enveloped the main field, creating an eerie backdrop for what turned out to be a spooky feedback jam-packed session. The first song alone, "Love and Only Love," stretched past the 17-minute mark with multiple jams between verses. Midway through the set, Young played a couple of songs straightforward solo on his acoustic – "The Needle and the Damage Done" and "Twisted Road" – before getting his ya ya's out, back on the electric, including a wild improvisational romp through "Fucking Up."

Young may not have performed any actual songs from his latest album, Americana, but the point of his set was not to promote product so much as to play music of the moment, in the moment, like so many great bands have done in Golden Gate Park before. Snubbing convention and even punking the audience, Young introduced one number by saying he wrote it that very morning and that it "sounds like another, but I can’t remember which one it is." He then launched into "Cinnamon Girl" from 1969's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. might be more info on the site, but I gotta go

sounds like another, but I can’t remember which one it is.

LOVE

he says the same thing during one of the red rocks shows -- and then plays "psychedelic pill". which does sound like another song, but, like Neil, I can't quite place which one.

Something off Le Noise, I believe. And another Le Noise song borrows from "Like An Inca." Dude's a regular Ray Davies, with the self-plundering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPPuyA3GOs

"It's all one song!"

"Psychedelic Pill" = Le Noise's "Sign Of Love." Exact same riff.

ah, you are correct. thought it was something older, but no!

Wow, "Walk Like A Giant" really is good. Definitely bodes well. Wasn't that excited for "Americana" but am hepped up now.

And another Le Noise song borrows from "Like An Inca."

It's actually the other way around: "Hitchhiker" came first and "Like An Inca" borrowed from it.

Weird, didn't know that. I've been digging into his 80s stuff lately, and his stockpiling tendencies/choices are kind of bewildering (e.g., releasing something like "T-Bone" in favor of, say, "Country Home").

I know I am really late, but..

It'd be awesome if his next album was called "Canadiana," and included covers of, like, Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Leonard Cohen and BTO.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:05 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymns_of_the_49th_Parallel

no barenaked ladies, no credibility. or are they the backing band? [jk! that album is quite good imo]

daaaamn now that I see these setlists I might have to get tickets to one of the Brooklyn shows

er one of the new york shows I mean. one at MSG and one at the new Barclays Center in BK.

BNL wrote no one's favourite Canadian songs when we've so much else to choose from ;)

might be seeing one of the NY shows so I'm still debating whether to hear these previews or let new Neil hit me live in person the way he'd like it.

I don't think I'll listen to the bootlegs but before I would consider getting tix I had to see that the setlists weren't 90% Americana ...

You know, dumb question, but I've always wondered why "Hey Hey My My" namechecks Johnny Rotten and not Sid Vicious, when the latter (rhyme scheme aside) makes more thematic sense. Johnny Rotten never burned out or faded away, and I sometimes wonder if Neil realized he got the wrong guy and just thought, hey, it's a great song so fuck it.

if wiki is correct sid hadn't died yet when the album was recorded

plus i get the sense neil didn't even *know* that much about the pistols, he just felt something in the wind and wrote about it

Yeah, isn't the track about Elvis, really?

So it sounds like Ralph Molina is using Hot Rods exclusively, instead of sticks. Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

new album according to sampedro, will be called "Psychedelic Pill"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-neil-young-and-crazy-horses-new-album-and-tour-20120814

Don't really see it as an aesthetic choice...maybe he's protecting his hearing?

Too little, too late, dude. You're in Crazy Horse!

i'm so in love with the 2nd night of the colorado bootlegs

someone just sent me a 35 minute mix of all the feedback jams at the end of Walk Like A Giant entitled Arc 2012. Noise album of the year?

Without a doubt. The "Giant" jams make Fushitsusha sound like the Magnetic Fields.

Let me be the upmteenth person to note that the noise-jam ending of "Walk Like a Giant" is completely awesome.

kind of sounds like they're slaughtering a whale

Dude, which "Walk Like A Giant" has this slaughtered whale moment, wanna listen! I guess I will listen to all of it, glowing recs, but I don't think the version I listened to reached quite those heights.

Well, there's a hair of hyperbole at work here. We're not really talking Fushitsusha (I hope). It sounds more like, dunno, Masaki Batoh. Or Neil Young.

ok judge for yourself -- here's Arc 2012: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/29629148690/arc-2012-for-nearly-two-decades-now-fans-have

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that!

I should admit that I've totally come around to "Americana" and now sort of view it as the closest we're going to come to a whole album of stuff like the "Farmer John" cover. As major an album as minor albums get.