Archives 2020

Neil Young will issue plenty of previously unreleased music in 2020 via his Neil Young Archives site. Young wrote a note to subscribers detailing plans for the 'Weld Series', 'Sneak Previews', "Homegrown", "Return To Greendale", "Rust Bucket" and "Young Shakespeare".

"Homegrown" is due on April 18th, 2020, "Return To Greendale" is due on June 19th, 2020, "Archives Volume 2" is due July 24th, 2020, "Rust Bucket" is due October 16th, 2020, and "Young Shakespeare" is due November 27th, 2020. The releases are also noted on N.Y.A.’s 2020 'Timeline'.

'The Weld Series' will feature live releases captured during Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s Weld tour in support of "Ragged Glory" in 1991. Tracks from a stop in Buffalo are the first up in the new series. Additionally, N.Y.A.’s Hearse Theatre will host 'Sneak Previews' of songs and clips that you have never heard or seen. These are things that are almost finished and unreleased at this point, appearing at the Hearse Theater unscheduled. An announcement of each 'Sneak Preview' will be posted to N.Y.A. and then fans can watch or listen to the track(s) for 24 hours.

Finally, Neil addressed his Barn Tour with Crazy Horse in a post on NYA. “The idea of announcing the tour and putting tickets on sale is questionable and needs to be thought through”, Young wrote in regards to the coronavirus outbreak. “We are all super ready to go, and the last thing we want to do is put people at risk, especially our older audience. No one wants to become sick in this pandemic. So here we are together, watching to see how it goes, how long it will last, and how many more of our planet’s people and animals will be affected”.