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Neil Young announces new, not-your-average live album, 'Earth'

Neil Young has announced a new live album called Earth. The album is mostly comprised of live recordings from Neil’s 2015 tour with The Promise of the Real (a band that includes Willie Nelson’s sons). In addition to the live songs, which are culled from throughout Neil’s prodigious catalogue, the album features “sounds from the earth,” including “city sounds like car horns, sounds of insects, and animal sounds from bears, birds, crickets, bees, horses, cows – creating a very strange, yet beautiful atmosphere.” As Neil himself puts it:

“Ninety-eight uninterrupted minutes long, EARTH flows as a collection of 13 songs from throughout my life, songs I have written about living here on our planet together,”
says Young. “Our animal kingdom is well represented in the audience as well, and the animals, insects, birds, and mammals actually take over the performances of the songs at times.”

That sounds like something that needs to be heard to be understood. You’ll get the chance when the album drops on June 17 via Reprise.

Reprise is also giving a couple of seminal Neil Young films the blu-ray release treatment: the crazy, Dean Stockwell-directed 1982 road film Human Highway, which Neil wrote and starred in, and the 1978 concert film Rust Never Sleeps. Both of those films have been exceedingly hard to see in recent years, and Human Highway in particular is pretty legendary. Those will be available on June 10th.

And finally, LA residents will get the chance to catch Neil in person, when he presents a public listening event for the album at LA’s Natural History Museum on May 6. He’ll talk about the genesis of the album before playing the whole thing. Tickets for that event are on sale now.

Check out the Earth tracklist below.

Neil Young – Earth Tracklist
“People Want to Hear About Love” (from The Monsanto Years)
“Big Box” (from The Monsanto Years)
“Mother Earth” (from Ragged Glory)
“The Monsanto Years” (from The Monsanto Years)
“I Won’t Quit” (previously unreleased)
“Western Hero” (from Sleeps With Angels)
“Vampire Blues” (from On The Beach)
“Hippie Dream” (from Landing On Water)
“After The Gold Rush” (from After The Gold Rush)
“Wolf Moon” (from The Monsanto Years)
“Love & Only Love” (from Ragged Glory)

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