Neil Young served up his first outdoor Fireside Session on Friday, performing a six-song, 28-minute acoustic set chock-full of bustouts.
The snowy performance opens with the throwback tune “Sugar Mountain” and continues with Young’s first-ever solo unplugged take on his original “Little Wing.”
Other highlights include a bustout of Homegrown‘s “Love Art Blues” (last played in 2008) and his first solo “Vampire Blues” since 1974.
“Happy to have you hang with us for a little while. It’s pretty rough around the edges, as any down-home/low tech slow interwebs production could be,” Young wrote alongside the video. “…Hope you enjoy. Take care. Sending love and we’ll try to keep ’em coming.”
Watch via Neil Young Archives here.
Check out the setlist below:
Neil Young
Fireside Sessions – March 20, 2020
Sugar Mountain, Little Wing^, Love Art Blues*, Vampire Blues%, Tell Me Why, Razor Love
Notes:
^Solo acoustic debut
*LTP 2008
%LTP solo 1974
4 Comments comments associated with this post
tim
March 21, 2020 at 9:29 amNever expected Little Wing. With HOG my all time favorite acoustic NY song. I think it’s relevant because it was on the original Homegrown. Fireside was perfect no politics just Neil and his guitar and piano isolated with just him and his wife on top of a mountain in Colorado.
Chris Furner
March 20, 2020 at 2:34 pmHe did Vampire Blues last night on the Luck, Til Further Notice, webcast.
FlyerCat16
March 23, 2020 at 3:26 pmSeems like his site is shutdown or compromised?
Jaggerrich
March 20, 2020 at 2:31 pmWe got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man ‘-Nope not really, a sarcastic point from Neil re: senior Bush’
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand ‘-More sarcasm, truer than ever. Gun sales soaring during COVID-19.’
We got department stores
and toilet paper ‘-You sure do, although closing soon, Walmart stock at all-time high, what a joke, nice society you got. Toilette Paper: idiot ignorant Americans hoarding and clearing the shelves of it inexplicably.’
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer ‘-Humpty et alii deny this in full, as standard.’
Got a man of the people, ‘-Nope, a spoiled rich kid, who pissed his inheritance away,now owing Russian Oligarchs $billions from previous personal bankruptcies and personal bailouts. One who cheated and lied throughout his entire life right up to the current minute.’
says keep hope alive ‘-Whatever, LMFAO.’
Got fuel to burn, ‘- You sure do, now soon to be about a $BUCK-a-GALLON.’
got roads to drive. ‘-But nowhere to go.’
great job Neil, keep’em comin’ indeed. thank you