Neil Young FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Iconic and Mercurial Rocker

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everybody Knows This Is Neil

1. I Am a Child: From Canada to California

2. Hello, Broken Arrow: Buffalo Springfield

3. A Dreamer of Pictures: Latter-Day Remembrances, Compilations, Anthologies, and Boxed Sets

4. Is This Place at Your Command? Neil Young, Elliot Roberts, and David Briggs

5. When I Saw Those Thrashers Rolling By: Neil Young and Crazy Horse

6. Sleeps with Angels (Too Soon): Departed Bandmates, Brothers in Arms, and Sisters in Song

7. You See Us Together Chasing the Moonlight: Neil Young’s Bands

8. We Have All Been Here Before: A Brief History of Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Sometimes Young)

9. An Open Letter to Neil Young (Reprinted from an article originally published at Blogcritics magazine)

10. There Was a Band Playing in My Head, and I Felt Like Getting High: After the Gold Rush

11. I’ve Been to Hollywood, I’ve Been to Redwood: Harvest, Nashville, and the Stray Gators

12. So I Headed for the Ditch: Time Fades Away, On the Beach, and Tonight’s the Night—Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy

13. Why Do I Keep Fuckin’ Up? Neil Young’s Biggest Commercial Flops

14. Hey, Ho, Away We Go, We’re on the Road to Never: Neil Young’s Most Underrated Albums

15. Sooner or Later It All Gets Real: Zuma, The Stills-Young Band, and the Return of the Horse

16. Dancing on the Night from Star to Star: Chrome Dreams, American Stars and Bars, the Ducks, Decade, and Comes a Time

17. More to the Picture Than Meets the Eye: Human Highway, Rust Never Sleeps, and the Punk-Rock Connection

18. Get Off of That Couch, Turn Off That MTV: Neil Young’s Live Recordings

19. Piece of Crap: Five Essential Neil Young Bootlegs

20. A Kinder, Gentler Machine Gun Hand: Five Great Neil Young Concerts from Seattle, Washington

21. Why Do You Ride That Crazy Horse? Hawks and Doves, Re-ac-tor, and a Kid Named Ben

22. Sample and Hold: Trans, Island in the Sun, and the Geffen Years

23. Computer Cowboy: The Best Neil Young Websites

24. No Matter Where I Go, I Never Hear My Record on the Radio: The Shocking Pinks, Old Ways, and Farm Aid

25. Strobe Lights Flashin’ on the Overpass: Landing on Water, Life, Muddy Track, and the Bridge School

26. Ain’t Singin’ for Pepsi: The Bluenotes, American Dream, Ten Men Working, and the Road Back Home

27. What We Have Got Here Is a Perfect Track: Eldorado, Times Square, the Young and the Restless

28. This Shit Don’t Sell: A Brief History of Neil Young’s Unreleased Recordings

29. A Thousand Points of Light: Freedom and Redemption for Neil in the Nineties

30. Don’t Spook the Horse: Ragged Glory and Arc-Weld

31. From Hank to Hendrix: The Most Noteworthy Neil Young Covers, Collaborations, Send-ups, and Tributes

32. On This Harvest Moon: Thirty Years Later, the Sequel

33. Change Your Mind: Sleeps with Angels, Mirror Ball, and How the Punks Met the Godfather of Grunge

34. Good to See You Again: Broken Arrow, Dead Man, and Year of the Horse

35. Let’s Roll: Silver and Gold, Looking Forward, 9/11, Are You Passionate?, and Greendale

36. Falling Off the Face of the Earth: Prairie Wind and Heart of Gold

37. Should’ve Been Done Long Ago: Living with War, “Let’s Impeach the President,” and the Freedom of Speech Tour

38. Sure Enough, They’ll Be Selling Stuff: The Resurrection of the Archives

39. No Hidden Path: Chrome Dreams II, Linc/Volt, and Fork in the Road

40. I Said Solo, They Said Acoustic: Neil Young Brings Le Noise to the Twisted Road

41. Buffalo Springfield Again: Holding Our Breath with Our Eyes Closed

42. Words (Between the Lines of Age): What Other Artists Have to Say About Neil Young

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