Neil Young covers Monroe

[Darren Bailey]

On his new album with Crazy Horse he covers an old Bill Monroe song. Turns it into a typical Young rocker but sounds very good.

[Ed Goist]

Neil Young is probably my favorite musical artist, and his new album, Americana, is, IMO, his best work in years. I've pretty much been listening to it non-stop over the past day! Classic Americana Folk tunes played with Crazy Horse's Grit, Growl, and Fuzz...This is right up my alley!

Here's the amazon.com page for the album, and here's the track listing:

1. Oh Susannah
2. Clementine
3. Tom Dula
4. Gallows Pole
5. Get A Job
6. Travel On
7. High Flyin' Bird
8. Jesus' Chariot
9. This Land Is Your Land
10. Wayfarin' Stranger
11. God Save The Queen

Darren, are you considering Wayfarin' Stranger the Monroe song, or is there another track here that Bill is associated with that I don't know about? (Please forgive the question, Monroe is still very much new to me)

[Mandolin Yogi]

I am hoping to score some tickets to see him in Seattle this fall.

[AlanN]

Want this.

His 34th studio album...

[Rob Fowler]

Darren, are you considering Wayfarin' Stranger the Monroe song, or is there another track here that Bill is associated with that I don't know about? (Please forgive the question, Monroe is still very much new to me)

Ed, I think Darren might be talking about "Travel On." Somebody with more clout than myself could confirm that, though.

[jaycat]

"God Save The Queen?" Methinks Neil is taking the piss.

[Ed Goist]

"God Save The Queen?" Methinks Neil is taking the piss.

Here's Terry Gross' Fresh Air interview with Young yesterday. They talk quite a bit about this song. Young points out how he sang it every day in school as a kid in Canada, and how it just popped into his head while planning this album. Less jab, more reminiscence, I think.

[jaycat]

OK, well there's a reason you don't record just everything that pops into your head . . . or maybe Neil does!

[Darren Bailey]

Sorry Ed, yea, I was thinking of Travel on although Bill's Wayfarin Stranger is a classic too in my opinion.

[Zeke Chandler]

Thanks for the heads up. I learned music on Neil Young songs. Heart of Gold was my first ever. Don't Let it Bring You Down the first song I learned entirely by ear. Love his chord progressions and picking style.

A friend of mine hates him solely for the Ohio song but listening to David Crosby Neil had no opinion whatsoever on politics and was inspired to write Ohio only by the infamous picture of the students lying dead on campus.

There is a real interesting recent interview with him where he says he was just messing around one time while recording in his younger days and started singing in a stupid screamy raspy voice and then started hitting the same note over and over -- which of course went on to become his renowned signature sound.

[tree]

Want this.

+1

[rico mando]

This is pretty interesting but a bit off topic , an interesting read but the video is 9 minutes of your life you will not get back .

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/vi...my-my-20130102

[mandolirius]

Sorry Ed, yea, I was thinking of Travel on although Bill's Wayfarin Stranger is a classic too in my opinion.

Neither one is a Bill Monroe song. He didn't write them. He did the both but so have lots of others.