{"id":973677,"date":"2019-11-22T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916492"},"modified":"2019-11-22T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:07:49","slug":"neil-young-preps-legendary-unreleased-1975-lp-homegrown-for-2020-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/neil-young-preps-legendary-unreleased-1975-lp-homegrown-for-2020-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Preps Legendary Unreleased 1975 LP \u2018Homegrown\u2019 For 2020 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/neil-young-homegrown.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/neil-young\/\" id=\"auto-tag_neil-young\" data-tag=\"neil-young\">Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s legendary unreleased album <em>Homegrown<\/em> will finally come out in 2020. He recorded it in 1975 and was on the verge of releasing it, going as far as commissioning cover art, when he decided at the last minute to shelf it in favor of <em>Tonight\u2019s The Night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA record full of love lost and explorations,\u201d Young wrote on the Neil Young Archives. \u201cA record that has been hidden for decades. Too personal and revealing to expose in the freshness of those times\u2026The unheard bridge between <em>Harvest<\/em> and <em>Comes a Time<\/em>, <em>Homegrown<\/em> is coming to NYA first in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young made the announcement in a <a href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=Analog-Demonstration-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">post on his Neil Young Archives website<\/a> paired with a video that shows his longtime producer John Hanlon working on it. \u201cMr. J. Hanlon is seen here mastering <em>Homegrown<\/em> in an all analog chain,\u201d Young writes. \u201cThis is the way records were made when we started out. This is the way we made them sound great. We were told that this was impossible now, the<em> Homegrown<\/em> tapes were too damaged to use; we had to use Digital. We didn\u2019t agree. We did not accept. We painstakingly restored the analog masters of <em>Homegrown<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AsX-EdXIhIg?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Young originally recorded <em>Homegrown<\/em> at a time his career when new songs were coming to him at an incredible pace, many of them inspired by his painful split with girlfriend Carrie Snodgress. Warner Bros. loved the results and felt it would be another bestseller following the relative commercial disappointments of <em>Time Fades Away<\/em> and <em>On the Beach<\/em>. \u201cIt was a little too personal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-the-rolling-stone-interview-123513\/\">Young told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Cameron Crowe in 1975<\/a>. \u201cIt scared me. I\u2019ve never released any of those. And I probably never well. I think I\u2019d be too embarrassed to put them out. They\u2019re a little too real.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rollingstone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No exact track listing has ever surfaced, but during the sessions he did record songs like \u201cLove Is a Rose,\u201d \u201cHomegrown\u201d and \u201cStars of Bethlehem,\u201d which surfaced on later albums . Other songs leaked out over the years or were played it concert, including \u201cTry\u201d and \u201cHomefires,\u201d while others have never been heard before. He was joined on the sessions by Emmylou Harris, Levon Helm, Ben Keith and Robbie Robertson.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fw7L8roHjjw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The track listing of the 2020 edition of <em>Homegrown<\/em> hasn\u2019t been announced, but sharp-eyed fans noticed a Post-it Note on John Hanlon\u2019s console in the video with the following songs listed on it: \u201cSeparate Ways,\u201d \u201cTry,\u201d \u201cMexico,\u201d \u201cLove Is a Rose,\u201d \u201cHomegrown,\u201d \u201cFlorida,\u201d \u201cKansas,\u201d \u201cWe Don\u2019t Smoke It,\u201d \u201cWhite Line,\u201d \u201cVacancy,\u201d \u201cLittle Wing\u201d and \u201cStar of Bethlehem.\u201d \u201cWe Don\u2019t Smoke It\u201d has never been heard by fans, but you can hear a bit of it on the announcement video.<\/p>\n<p>Young has released numerous archival albums in the past few years, including <em>Songs For Judy<\/em>, <em>Hitchhiker<\/em> and <em>Tuscaloosa.<\/em> He averages about two a year that appear simultaneously in stores along with streaming services and the Neil Young Archives, but he recently revealed a major shift in direction for 2020. He\u2019s still working out the exact details, but the plan is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-archives-2020-910631\/\">flood the Neil Young Archives with unreleased material<\/a> so older fans can hear everything before they die.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-preps-legendary-unreleased-1975-lp-homegrown-2020-916492\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Young\u2019s legendary unreleased album Homegrown will finally come out in 2020. He recorded it in 1975 and was on the verge of releasing it, going as far as commissioning cover art, when he decided at the last minute to shelf it in favor of Tonight\u2019s The Night. \u201cA record full of love lost and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:18:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}