Neil Young a.k.a. Our Messiah (disagree and I’ll strangle ya in front of all your coworkers and they won’t even shed tears when they hear what the fight was about) has just confirmed (via a video at Rolling Stone) the rumors swirling around ever since he put up a 37-minute Crazy Horse jam of unknown origin the other day: Crazy Horse reunion is happening!! In fact, it’s already happened behind closed doors and they’ve finished an album called Americana that is going to feature a “very young choir of children” assisting the Horse as they run through “songs we all know from kindergarten,” such as “Oh Susanna” and “This Land Is Your Land.” Hmm. Okay. Starting to get visions of Old Ways and This Note’s for You, but maybe it’ll be fuckin’ Trans-level great in the end. After all, 2010’s Le Noise was damn good.
Perhaps anticipating a nation-wide groan at the concept of Americana, Neil also confirmed that the group are already at work on a second album, presumably less concept-driven and more scorching-ass-rock-centric. Young spoke about both albums over coffee with Jonathan Demme as a promotional event for Journeys, the third movie in Demme’s trilogy that started with Heart of Gold and blew the roof off with Trunk Show.
Finally, a single performance of Neil Young with Crazy Horse (eight years after their last one) is scheduled for February 10 as part of a MusiCares Person of the Year Gala honoring Paul McCartney. On that note, let’s finish up this story with a video of President Young covering “A Day in the Life,” with a little help from McCartney himself. (P.S. — this version rules.)
• Neil Young: http://www.neilyoung.com
