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Neil Young, “Tumbleweed” (2014): One Track Mind

Life is, as this song reminds, full of strange delights — like finding Neil Young amongst pizzicato strings.

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Neil Young, “When I Watch You Sleepin'” (2014): One Track Mind

Elsewhere, Neil Young’s Storytone might exceed its own grasp, might try to do too much. But not this song.

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Neil Young overcame a key disability to take up painting: ‘I chose my colors carefully’

Neil Young is hardly the first famous musician to try painting, but he’s traveled a difficult road to get there.

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‘Crazy, beautiful, challenging stuff’: Nils Lofgren stood ready to fill in with Crazy Horse

After a hand injury, Frank “Poncho” Sampedro suggested Lofgren take over.

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One Track Mind: Neil Young, “Who’s Gonna Stand Up” (2014)

A classically gnarled Young rocker, but with a gospel twist.

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‘It was such a powerful day’: Nils Lofgren discusses his new box set’s major Neil Young find

Lofgren’s ‘Face the Music’ set includes 169 original songs from across his career.

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‘I never heard anybody be that intense’: David Crosby selects his favorite Neil Young performance

“Ever,” David Crosby says. “Anybody. Anybody. Ever.”

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The Friday Morning Listen: Angel – White Hot (1978)

So we were standing around the Something Else! water cooler the other day, getting a lot of laughs from an absolutely ridiculous article we’d read about guitar players. You May Also Like: Punky Meadows – Fallen Angel (2016) Why J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton’s ‘The Road to Escondido’ Still Resonates

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Neil Young – A Letter Home (2014)

“My friend Jack has this box,” Young says as A Letter Home begins, in an opening message to his mother — but, by then, it’s already clear that A Letter Home is an album like no other, recorded in a situation so old fashioned as to seem otherworldly. You MayRead More

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One Track Mind: Neil Young, “Needle of Death” from A Letter Home (2014)

But for the lack of surface noise, “Needle of Death” could just as well be a just-dug-up vinyl relic from a bygone era — so complete is Neil Young’s trip back into age-old technological nostalgia. Then, the lyrics begin to pierce through the facade of hype built up around itsRead More