Happy Birthday to Neil Young, who turns 76 today (November 12th)!!! Young and Crazy Horse will release their latest album, Barn, on December 10th. The set marks the group's followup to 2019's joint effort, Colorado. Young announced the new album on his official Neil Young Archives website, writing, “We are so happy to be back in the barn. A barn built to replicate the 1850's barn that had collapsed in exactly the same place, high in the mountains of Colorado.”
Neil Young hasn’t played a public show since Farm Aid in 2019 and criticized concert promoters for booking super spreader events, writing, “They hold the power to stop shows where thousands congregate and spread. It’s money that keeps it going. Money that motivates the spreading.” On September, Young pulled out of Farm Aid 2021, posting a message to fans on his NeilYoungArchives page: “Lots is going on in our world right now. I find myself wondering whether Farm Aid will be safe for everyone with the Covid pandemic surging. I worry about that. I don’t want to let anybody down, but still can’t shake the feeling that it might not be safe for everyone.”
In October, Young released the official bootleg, Carnegie Hall 1970.