Thursday, March 12, 2026

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 4: 1999-2005

Here’s the fourth album in the Neil Young covered series. Once again, thanks to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work. I also want to mention that I have a long list of songwriters that I want to make Covered albums for. Many of the biggest ones, like Dylan, Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richard’s, Ray Davies, etc… are still to come. I’m sure I wouldn’t have gotten around to Young for a couple more years. But Fabio’s involvement and energy brought this one to the front of the line.

Here are Fabio’s comments about the time period of this volume:

By the turn of the millennium, Neil Young's songwriting had become a shared reference point for several generations of musicians. Musical artists from the folk revival, alt-country movement, and indie rock scene were all revisiting different eras of his catalog - from the fragile acoustic songs of the late sixties to the electric epics recorded with Crazy Horse. During this period, Young himself remained remarkably active, releasing albums such as "Silver and Gold" and "Greendale" while continuing to tour extensively. The covers gathered here reflect that generational dialogue: younger singer-songwriters, Americana performers, and alternative rock musicians rediscovering both famous classics and some of the most obscure corners of Young's songwriting. 

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

01 Piece of Crap (Slobberbone)
02 Pushed It Over the End (South Ontario)
03 Long Walk Home (MrChuck)
04 I've Been Waiting for You (David Bowie)
05 Running Dry [Requiem for the Rockets] (Steve Von Till)
06 Albuquerque (Walkabouts)
07 Pocahontas (Gillian Welch)
08 The Old Laughing Lady (Thea Gilmore)
09 Old Man (Wilson Phillips)
10 I Believe in You (Patricia O'Callaghan)
11 Helpless (k.d. lang)
12 Barstool Blues (Maria McKee)
13 Broken Arrow (Kate Rogers)
14 Last Trip to Tulsa (Leo Koster)
15 Roll Another Number [For the Road] (Mike McClure)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hBKS1csm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/D7BlSPthu0AbmAM/file 

The cover photo is from 1975. The original was in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. I also used the Krea AI program to improve details. 

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8 comments:

  1. NateMarch 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM

    Nice to see Thea Gilmore show up on your site for the first time. I lover her rendition of "The Old Laughing Lady". Unknown in the U.S., she has released dozens of albums, and is well worth your time to check out. She also has a Patreon page with which she sends her Patrons a newly written and recorded song every month.

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  2. bigcravingsMarch 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM

    Please stop with the AI slop pictures. They look awful. It's not you, it's the AI. Makes me queasy to look at.

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    1. Jerry GMarch 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM

      Fascinating, because Paul has not yet used even one "AI slop" picture for this series. (If you don't like the accompanying pics, they are not mandatory, and you can simply discard them.)

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    2. PaulMarch 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM

      When I get back home, I am going to post links to the originals of these pics people are complaining about. Hopefully they will see that only surface things have changed, like color and contrast. I try to tread lightly with AI adjustments. I never ever make pictures from scratch with AI.

      The problem is, for this series, I have to use photos where NY has his head looking straight at the camera, not angled to the side at all, and no hat or glasses. I had a very hard time finding those from when he was young. So some original photos I picked aren’t ideal. If anyone can find better ones from the 1960s and 70s, let me know and I’ll make replacements.

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    3. PaulMarch 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM

      I don’t have time to search for them all right now, but you can find the original of the photo I used for this Volume 4 album near the bottom of this website:
      https://floodmagazine.com/39758/distant-camera-henry-diltzs-portraits-of-neil-young-1966-1975/

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  3. George B.March 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM

    Thanks for sharing another volume. Once again, as was the case with the other 3 volumes, I cannot open the word file? It states again, that it can't be open due to errors? How can I fix this? Thanks.

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  4. RaphaelMarch 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM

    Obrigado!

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  5. Jerry GMarch 13, 2026 at 7:59 AM

    Great selections! But one nitpick for Fabio: "By [1999] Young's songwriting had become a shared reference point for several generations of musicians." Only TWO generations, at this volume's point. Aside from a couple of the Boomer 'outlaw country' artists, Neil never really connected with or was covered by older generations (compared to, say, the Beatles Dylan, or Motown composers.) Even the oldest 'Millennial' was just turning 17-22 during this volume's period, not yet touring or cutting notable covers. It signifies that all the artists you included here (but Bowie) are 'Gen X'. Just give him some more years....😂

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