Neil Young To Share Previously Unreleased Album 'Homegrown' In June
Friday, 15 May 2020
Written by Sophie Williams
Neil Young is set to put out a previously unheard album this summer.
The 12-track ‘Homegrown’ is scheduled for both a digital and physical release on June 19 via Reprise Records, surfacing 46 years after it was originally recorded. The news arrives with the previously unreleased single Try, a tender ballad that waltzes with the possibility of a blossoming love.
The legendary singer-songwriter is said to have worked on the LP between June 1974 and January 1975 with a team of session musicians, including Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Emmylou Harris, alongside Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Stan Szelet, Robbie Robertson and Tim Drummond. Young said:
“I apologise. ‘Homegrown’ should have been there for you a couple of years after [1972's] ‘Harvest’. It’s the sad side of a love affair. The damage done. The heartache. I just couldn’t listen to it. I wanted to move on. So I kept it to myself, hidden away in the vault, on the shelf, in the back of my mind….but I should have shared it. It’s actually beautiful. That’s why I made it in the first place.
"Sometimes life hurts. You know what I mean. This is the one that got away. Recorded in analog in 1974 and early 1975 from the original master tapes and restored with love and care by John Hanlon. Levon Helm is drumming on some tracks, Karl T. Himmel on others, Emmylou Harris singing on one, 'Homegrown' contains a narration, several acoustic solo songs never even published or heard until this release and some great songs played with a great band of my friends, including Ben Keith – steel and slide – Tim Drummond – bass and Stan Szelest – piano. Anyway, it’s coming your way in 2020, the first release from our archive in the new decade. Come with us into 2020 as we bring the past.”
Young's last full-length effort arrived in the form of 2019's 'Colorado' with Crazy Horse.
'Homegrown' tracklist:
1. Separate Ways
2. Try
3. Mexico
4. Love Is A Rose
5. Homegrown
6. Florida
7. Kansas
8. We Don’t Smoke It No More
9. White Line
10. Vacancy
11. Little Wing
12. Star of Bethlehem
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