{"id":67221,"date":"2026-06-23T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/neil-young-quietly-released-a-blazing-hour-long-concert-film-for-free\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:29:43","slug":"neil-young-quietly-released-a-blazing-hour-long-concert-film-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/neil-young-quietly-released-a-blazing-hour-long-concert-film-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Quietly Released a Blazing, Hour-Long Concert Film For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA couple of months after releasing the live LP <em>As Time Explodes<\/em>, which chronicles his 2025 summer tour with the Chrome Hearts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/neil-young\/\" id=\"auto-tag_neil-young\" data-tag=\"neil-young\">Neil Young<\/a> has quietly released a free companion concert film, <em>Corduroy Plants<\/em>, on the <em>Neil Young Archives.<\/em> The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/video?vimeoId=1203594840&amp;fbclid\">hour-long, eleven-song film<\/a> centers around most of the songs from<em> As Time Explodes<\/em>, but lacks \u201cAfter the Gold Rush\u201d and \u201cLooking Forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLike many of Young\u2019s recent films, <em>Corduroy Plants<\/em> was directed by his wife, Daryl Hannah. It\u2019s unclear where exactly the individual performances were filmed, and Hannah occasionally cuts from the stage to show footage drawn from recent news events and moments throughout history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Be the Rain - Neil Young &amp; The Chrome Hearts - Toronto, Canada, August 19, 2025\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBn82RbDtN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring the G<em>reendale<\/em> epic \u201cBe The Rain,\u201d for example, news footage of the destruction of the East Wing of the White House is shown, along with brief clips of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. \u201cVampire Blues\u201d is paired with footage of devastating oil spills, migrant workers are seeing toiling in fields during \u201cLike a Hurricane,\u201d and images of the World War II and the Holocaust are seen in \u201cCortez The Killer,\u201d along with more recent conflicts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIf most artists of Young\u2019s stature had created a concert film and released it for free to the fans, there would have been some sort of promotional campaign along social media posts. But Young stopped using most social media platforms due to their connections to the Trump administration, rarely grants interviews, and didn\u2019t even send out a press release<em>.<\/em> It was left for fans to discover themselves on the Neil Young Archives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tElsewhere on the NYA, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=A%20Message%20from%20Neil%206-15-26\">Young updated fans<\/a> on the status of the fourth volume of his Neil Young Archives box set. The first three volumes covered 1963-1972, 1972-1976, and 1976-1987. This next one will bring the story all the way to the end of the Greendale tour in 2004. \u201cThe Volume Dealers have been busy,\u201d Young wrote. \u201cVolume 4 of the Archives is underway, entering the completion phase for all songs we have uncovered over the last two or three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlso on the horizon is <em>Second Song,<\/em> a new album Young recently recorded with the Chrome Hearts at Rick Rubin\u2019s Shangri-La studios in Malibu, California. The material is largely brand new, but there are two or three unearthed songs that Young wrote circa 1963\/64 that have never been heard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young Performs Human Highway | Surprise Appearance at David Suzuki\u2019s 90th Birthday\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGL_DnyxMQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tYoung originally planned on touring Europe this summer with the Chrome Hearts, but he wound up pulling the dates for reasons he never fully articulated. But he reemerged May 22 for a surprise four-song set at David Suzuki\u2019s 90th birthday concert in Vancouver. He\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-returning-farm-aid-virginia-beach-1235574202\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSnospleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETExOEJsT0JIbG42VFJCRmVGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpty1rXW1xXaL_qpU-7yhhfJAh-Zqh7rn-4ma8ySln-K4RTdDKXKuFvVzvGE_aem_o4tKXaFWg_wU7K2rqitC8A\">on the bill for Farm Aid,<\/a> which will take place September 26 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/neil-young-concert-film-free-1235582494\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months after releasing the live LP As Time Explodes, which chronicles his 2025 summer tour with the Chrome Hearts, Neil Young&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}