Neil Young

View from Across La Manche #19 – From Our Own Correspondent

October 30, 2023 Rick Bayles 2

Bed bugs and Broomsticks. There has been a lot of noise, recently, about the bed bug problem in Paris, not least of all here in France. ‘Les punaises de lit’ are a major problem in Paris […]

Interview: Toria Richings on being fired up for Nashville’s AMERICANAFEST

September 5, 2023 Martin Johnson 6

Travel opened her eyes to roots music and Australia helped develop it into her own style. Inspired initially by Neil Young and Joan Baez, Toria Richings always knew she was a songwriter but it took a […]

Classic Clips: Neil Young “Heart of Gold” – BBC Studios, 1971

August 25, 2023 Cam Fraser 1

“Americana? Isn’t he really a rock guy?” some of you might say. Sure, some of the time, maybe most of the time. But when he sat down in the BBC’s Radio Theatre studio way back in […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Nils Lofgren’s Influence on Neil Young’s ‘Southern Man’

July 24, 2023 GrahamBollands 0

In last week’s Chain Gang, Clint West made the connection between Shooter Jennings’ old man Waylon, who amongst other things, added his distinctive guitar sound to a number of tracks on Neil Young’s 1985 country album […]

Americana one two three….

July 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Numbers, they are great, aren’t they? All around us all the time – there’s the wall that’s not quite upright, leaning at 5 degress, there’s the quickest way from point A where you might be standing […]