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Neil Young has dropped out of Farm Aid 2021 due to COVID safety concerns. Young, who is a co-founder and board member of Farm Aid, was supposed to perform at the festival in Hartford next month alongside Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, and more.

The lineup for Farm Aid 2021 has been announced. The charity event’s board of directors — Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, and the recently inducted Margo Price — will all perform at the festival, as will Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, Nathani...

Although Neil Young has more than a few lost albums to his name, lately he’s been going out of his way to correct that by officially issuing generous portions of unreleased music from his vault. Within the last year that has included both shelved studio albums like 1975’s Homegrown and live recordings like 1990’s Wa...

Guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro insists that Neil Young And Crazy Horse’s November 1990 show at the Catalyst was not just a warmup. The band had been woodshedding new songs for a month before they took the stage at the small club in Santa Cruz, just a few miles from Young’s ranch. The show was filmed and...