Neil Young

Neil Young

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The third song and video from 'Americana,' Neil Young and Crazy Horse's reconstruction of classic America folk songs, has been released. The first two efforts saw Young take on 'Oh Susannah' and 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain.' Now he tackles 'Clementine.'

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As if recording a cranked-up collection of American folk standards with Crazy Horse wasn't enough activity for one year, Neil Young is also getting ready to strap on his guitar, turn the amps up, and hit the road for a steadily expanding series of dates -- including appearances at Red Rocks, the Voodoo Fest, and Outside Lands.

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In memory of the late, great Donald 'Duck' Dunn, the bassist for Booker T. and the MGs who passed away Sunday morning at the age of 70, we decided to pay tribute to him today in our Rock Memorabilia category. We found a poster from the tour when the legendary Stax house band backed up Neil Young in 1993 that recently sold for $660 on eBay.

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Neil Young has just released the second song and video from his 'Americana' album, which will be released June 5. As has been widely reported, the album reunites him with longtime co-conspirators Crazy Horse as they put their unique sound on classic American folk tunes. Here, Young and his pals take on 'She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain,' which is renamed 'Jesus' Chariot' on the album.

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While Neil Young documents his own ‘Journeys’ with an upcoming film directed by longtime friend Jonathan Demme, a new book takes a look at the Canadian legend and attempts to clear the vaults out to share some Young factoids you might not have heard before.

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Sony Classics Pictures has released a trailer for 'Journeys,' the Jonathan Demme-directed film which combines footage from Neil Young's 2011 solo show at Toronto's Massey Hall with a road trip up through his native Ontario. The documentary, which premiered at Sundance this past January, will be in theaters June 29.

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The just released video for Neil Young's version of the American folk song 'Oh Susannah' is hardly an explosion of special effects, staging and production. Instead the rock legend used clips of a recession-era family gathered around the banjo to tell the song's story in a way that's much darker than the version one remembers from childhood.

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Over the last 50-plus years, the only constant in Neil Young's career has been change -- he's dabbled in a dizzying array of genres, frequently swapping personnel along the way. It's happened so often, in fact, that one of Young's oddest forays is also one of his least well-known: his early stint as the guitarist in the Mynah Birds, a Canadian band featuring funk star Rick 'Superfreak' James.

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Do politics belong in rock 'n' roll?

When you've got Ted Nugent making vaguely threatening statements about a sitting President...eh, maybe not so much. But when the result is a barnburner like Neil Young's 'Rockin' in the Free World,' it's hard to deny the value of self-righteous rage

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Metallica and Neil Young + Crazy Horse are two of the many acts that will perform at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music + Arts Festival, which takes place Aug. 10-12 at Golden Gate Park. Both longtime residents of the Bay Area, the two legendary groups will join sixty other bands for a three-day celebration.

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