“Considered selections” means that you’ve plowed through the chaff and got to YOUR curation.

Awwww, I was just kidding ya, Elizabeth. My bad! Serves me right that you preceded with a Neil Young Sunday Tribute evening.

Ah well, I just need to show up next Sunday and maybe I can make things right.

When God Made Me

Feel Like I'm Fallin' Off the Face of the Earth

Neil introduced it by saying that about the time he wrote Heart of Gold and was touring and being a rich hippie for the first time, he bought a ranch (in California, I believe) and he still lives there today (August 2006 - he probably still lives there). Anyway, he talked about the couple that worked and lived on the ranch, they were the caretakers, by the name of Luis and Clara Avala. There was an old blue jeep there and Luis took him for a ride to the topside of the place where there was a lake that fed all of the pastures and Luis asked him, "How does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?" Neil said, "I'm just lucky, Luis, just real lucky." Luis replied, "Well, that's the darnedest thing I ever heard." :-)

Neil wrote this song for him...

Old Man

He introduced this one by saying that as a kid he would spend all of his money playing this tune on a jukebox over and over again because it was the most beautiful song he had ever heard. It's a song written by Ian Tyson, a Canadian living on his ranch in Alberta at the time but just recently past away.

"I don't have the record with me here but I'm gonna sing it with my friends and we'll see what we can do ..."

Four Strong Winds

Here is the singer/songwriter, himself...

Four Strong Winds - Ian and Sylvia Tyson

Neil introduced this one by saying that one of his favourite guitars in the world is Willie Nelson's guitar because the way it looks. Then he said, "this guitar here...my friend (and band member) Grant Boatwright found this guitar for me about 30 years ago and I bought it from Tut Taylor...this is Hank's old guitar! He was here in 1951 and that was Hank's last show here...I think it was...I know he got fired but maybe he came back one more time but I don't think so ... so, I'm happy to see it back here ... anyway, here's a tune for ya ..." ... and then he saluted Hank to the applause of the audience ...

This Old Guitar (w. EmmyLou Harris)

Here For You

It's Only a Dream (from the concert film)

The Painter

Prairie Wind was released in 2005 and the songs reflect a brush with death - Neil's own mortality and his father's actual death. As his wife, Pegi, said,"it was like his life flashing before his eyes and just remembering all these things and wanting to say all these things because we didn't know what would happen."

He premiered the album in concert in Nashville at the Grand ole Opry in the Ryman Auditorium and, together with director Jonathon Demme, recorded it for the concert film, Neil Young: Heart of Gold. Which any Neil Young fan should have close at hand!

Here's the title track from that concert film ...

Prairie Wind

We're focusing on the music of Neil Young this evening. Homegrown was an album that was ready for release back in 1975. It was a painfully personal album that came about in the aftermath of the end of his rocky relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress and mother of his first child, Zeke. Neil thought he'd never release the album. Most of the songs never were released, until he decided that its time had come in 2020. It was worth the wait.

Try

Separate Ways

Vacancy

We Don't Smoke It No More

Selfish reasons? That hurt.

But I figure, all I have to do to secure Elizabeth Miller’s forgiveness is to pledge my heart, mind and soul to the next weekend that she decides not to callously back out of for your own selfish reasons. Fine.

And, he will LOVE it! So, what was it all for? America's obsession over him will have only hastened its decline.