Finally, here's the tenth and last volume for the Neil Young "Covered" series. A big thanks again to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work to put these together.
Before I go to Fabio's notes about the songs, I want to mention something. My rule here was to include only one cover version of each song (and no versions performed by Young himself). We kept to that, except for two songs, "Heart of Gold" and "Cortez the Killer," where we had two versions. Now that I'm posting this last volume, you can look over all the volumes and see just what songs we included or didn't include. Let us know if you think there are any great Young songs that we didn't include a cover for.
Also, Fabio says he's going to make a kind of "extras" album or albums, consisting of cover versions that he liked that didn't make it here. That's a good opportunity to have second covers of some songs, instead of just one. So if you have ideas of covers that you don't see here, please post them in the comments. I'm sure Fabio will look those over and take that feedback into consideration for his "extras."
One more thing. Fabio wanted this to end on a strong song Young wrote in recent years, specifically "Green Is Blue." But we didn't have a good cover version for that one. So Fabio reached out to the Neil Young "Rust" community. A person named Jeff Winter stepped up and recorded a version of that song just for this collection. So thanks to Jeff as well.
Now, here's Fabio's comments about this time period.
More than sixty years after Neil Young first emerged in the folk
clubs of Toronto, Canada, and later with Buffalo Springfield in the
mid-1960s, his songs continue to travel across generations, genres,
and continents. The covers gathered throughout these ten volumes show
how Young's catalog has become a kind of shared musical language:
interpreted by classic rock veterans, indie artists, folk
revivalists, Americana performers, and even bedroom musicians
recording from home studios.
In
recent years this process has only accelerated. Streaming platforms,
Bandcamp releases, and fan communities have made it easier than ever
for musicians to reinterpret songs from every era of Young's career -
from the fragile acoustic ballads of the early seventies to the
politically charged songs of his later decades. At the same time,
Young himself has continued to release new music and expand his
archival releases, ensuring that both longtime fans and new listeners
keep rediscovering the depth of his songwriting.
This
final volume works almost like an epilogue to the project: a reminder
that Neil Young's songs remain very much alive, constantly finding
new voices and new meanings. Even when he
will no longer be
with us - after all, we are all mortals -
as long as musicians keep picking up guitars or sitting down at a
piano, these songs will continue their journey.
As
a final note, I'd like to add that putting together this collection
has been both a challenge and a pleasure. Revisiting more than six
decades of songwriting made it clear once again how remarkably
durable Neil Young's music is: the same songs can survive countless
reinterpretations while still retaining their emotional core.
My
thanks go to Paul for the idea, the patience, and the many
suggestions along the way - and also to the worldwide community of
fans, collectors and musicians (the "Rusties")
who keep discovering, performing and sharing these songs. Without
that ongoing enthusiasm, projects like this would hardly be possible.
Most
of all, this collection is simply a tribute to one of the most
distinctive songwriters of the last sixty years. As long as people
continue to listen to, perform and sing these songs, Young's music
won't burn out nor will it rust. And his legacy will never
fade away.
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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 six minutes long.
01 Ten Men Working (Enrico Di Bella)
02 Berlin (Jens Thomas)
03 There’s a World (Sufjan Stevens)
04 Hitchhiker (Minus 5)
05 Out of My Mind (Minus 5)
06 Crime in the City [Sixty to Zero Part 1] (Paul Besselle)
07 No More (Gil Michael)
08 One of These Days (Kassi Valazza)
09 Borrowed Tune (Chris Eckman)
10 Lookin' for a Love (Jeffrey Martin)
11 Philadelphia (Brandi Carlile)
12 White Line (Kurt Vile)
13 Cowgirl in the Sand (Anders Osborne)
14 Here We Are in the Years (Sharon Van Etten)
15 Sail Away (Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel)
16 Green Is Blue (Jeff Winter)
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The cover photo is from 2019.
