neil young discography

Neil Young - general information

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Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director.

Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments—including piano and harmonica—his clawhammer acoustic guitar style and often idiosyncratic electric guitar soloing are the linchpins of a sometimes ragged, sometimes polished sound. Although Young has experimented widely with differing music styles, including swing, jazz, rockabilly, blues, and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into either of two distinct styles: folk-esque acoustic rock ("Heart of Gold", "Harvest Moon" and "Old Man") and electric-charged hard rock (like "Cinnamon Girl", "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"). In recent years, Young has adopted elements from newer styles like industrial, alternative country and grunge. Young's profound influence on the latter caused some to dub him "the godfather of grunge". As of mid-2008, Young has sold an estimated eighty million albums worldwide.

Young has directed (or co-directed) a number of films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY Déjà Vu (2008). He is currently working on a documentary about electric car technology, tentatively titled Linc/Volt. The project involves a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to hybrid technology, which Young plans to drive to Washington, DC as an example to lawmakers there.

He is also an outspoken advocate for environmental issues and small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid, and in 1986 helped found The Bridge School, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his wife Pegi (in this, Young's involvement stems at least partially from the fact that both of his sons have cerebral palsy and his daughter, like Young himself, has epilepsy).

Although Young sings as frequently about U.S. themes and subjects as he does about his native country, he remains a Canadian citizen and has never wanted to relinquish his Canadian citizenship.

Neil young on Youtube

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Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done - Guitar Lesson

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Neil Young Old Man live in '71

Neil Young discography

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Main Releases:

Archives Volume 1: 1963-1971
Fork In the Road
Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 (Reissue)
Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
Harvest Moon
Tonight's The Night
Chrome Dreams II
Live At Massey Hall 1971
Zuma
Rust Never Sleeps
Living With War - In The Beginning
Live At The Fillmore East
Living With War
Prairie Wind
Ragged Glory
Neil Young
Freedom
Year Of The Horse
Greatest Hits
Mirror Ball
Sleeps With Angels
Greendale Live At Vicar St.
Greendale
On The Beach
American Stars 'N Bars
Hawks & Doves
Re-ac-tor
Are You Passionate?
Road Rock Vol. 1
Silver & Gold
Broken Arrow
Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture Dead Man: A Film By Jim Jarmusch
Unplugged
Lucky Thirteen
Arc
Weld
This Note's For You
Life
Landing On Water
Old Ways
Everybody's Rockin'
Trans
Live Rust
Comes A Time
Decade
Long May You Run
Time Fades Away
Journey Through the Past
Harvest
After The Gold Rush
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Singles:

Johnny Magic
Fork in the Road
This Old Guitar
The Painter
Rockin' In The Free World (Fahrenheit 9/11 Mix)
Harvest Moon