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    NEIL YOUNG

    Apr 16, 2020 5 minutes
    By Michael Bonner

    Homegrown REPRISE

    ARCHIVE OF THE MONTH 9/10

    FTER a Crazy Horse barn tour was cancelled owing to coronavirus touring restrictions, Neil Young devised other ways to perform live music for the masses. Choosing to keep on streaming in the free world, Young envisaged the Fireside Sessions: a “down-home production, a few songs, a little time together” beamed live from his Colorado home. For the inaugural six-song acoustic set broadcast on March 19, Young pulled a couple of mouth-watering cuts from his sprawling catalogue. There was “Love/Art Blues”, debuted during CSNY’s 1974 tour, and the first solo outing for “Vampire Blues” since 1974. Young closed the set with another deep cut: “Little Wing”, revived after an absence of over 40 years. A song about a benevolent bird that flies into, its origins lie much further back, on – one of Young’s legendary ‘lost’ albums, which finally arrives, 45 years late, in May.

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