Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 12: Willie Nelson and Family

Here's the 12th and final album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by country legend Willie Nelson. 

I credited it to "Willie Nelson and Family" in part because that's how he was actually billed as, but also because it fits. Not only did family members like his songs Micah and Lukas Nelson play on all the songs, but Micah Nelson sang lead on one of the songs ("Everything Is Bullshit") and band member Waylon Payne sang lead on another ("Help Me Make It through the Night"). 

At the time of this concert, Nelson was a remarkable 92 years old! It's pretty amazing to be that damn old and still be headlining a concert with lots of big names like this one. Unfortunately, I have to say that age has been affecting his voice. He largely dodged this issue by singing songs that didn't challenge his vocal range, but still, sometimes it was hard not to notice as I listened to this.

This set was the longest one from the concert by about ten minutes. For the last three songs, Nelson was joined on stage by most of the other stars from the concert (other than the elusive Bob Dylan), though it isn't that obvious on the song performances.

For some reason, the YouTube feed that I recorded of the entire concert went silent about 2/3rds into Nelson's set. That delayed my posting of the entire concert. Just when I was starting to worry that I'd have to only post part of this set, the whole set finally showed up on bootleg sites. So all's well that ends well. 

This was a particularly impressive Farm Aid, in my opinion, in terms of the quality of the musical acts that performed in it. Let's hope they raised a lot of money to help farmers, and that next year's concert will be as good, or better. 

This album is 53 minutes long. 

01 Whiskey River (Willie Nelson & Family)
02 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
03 I Never Cared for You (Willie Nelson & Family)
04 Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (Willie Nelson & Family)
05 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
06 Will You Remember Mine (Willie Nelson & Family & Lily Meola)
07 On the Road Again (Willie Nelson & Family)
08 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
09 Just Breathe (Willie Nelson & Family)
10 Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Willie Nelson & Family)
11 Georgia on My Mind (Willie Nelson & Family)
12 Help Me Make It through the Night (Willie Nelson & Family)
13 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
14 Everything Is Bullshit (Willie Nelson & Family)
15 Last Leaf (Willie Nelson & Family)
16 Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die (Willie Nelson & Family)
17 Will the Circle Be Unbroken - I'll Fly Away (Willie Nelson & Family)
18 It's Hard to Be Humble (Willie Nelson & Family)
19 talk (Willie Nelson & Family)
20 I Saw the Light (Willie Nelson & Family)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/v6T9ow9c

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 11: Neil Young

We're getting near the end of the albums I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is the 11th out of 12 albums I'm posting from it. This one is a set by Neil Young, backed by his latest band, the Chrome Hearts.

Young was 79 years old at the time of this concert, and frankly he was looking it, but he was still singing and playing lead guitar very capably. Most of the songs were older classics. However, he played one new song, "Big Crime," which was released in a live version earlier in September 2025. It is a scathing criticism of President Trump's many illegal actions.

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Neil Young)
02 Big Crime (Neil Young)
03 Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young)
04 Long Walk Home (Neil Young)
05 talk (Neil Young)
06 Be the Rain (Neil Young)
07 talk (Neil Young)
08 Southern Man (Neil Young)
09 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Neil Young)
10 Old Man (Neil Young)
11 talk (Neil Young)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aHFCtB3s

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/xqiq9XCMK5KsHct/file 

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 10: Bob Dylan

This is the tenth album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by Bob Dylan, with his band.

It seems Dylan has become increasingly reclusive as he gets older, for instance wearing hoodies at all his concerts. He's gotten particularly annoyed at people taking pictures with their cell phones, and generally being so focused on their phones that they don't pay much attention to the actual concert. In his own concerts, he has security carefully enforce a policy of not using cell phones. In an appearance at the Outlaw Music Festival earlier in the year, where he couldn't control cell phone use, he all but made himself invisible, hiding behind a piano and other equipment, and shining lights in a way so that he basically couldn't be seen.

Here's an article about his appearance at the Farm Aid concert by Rolling Stone Magazine: 

Watch Pro-Shot Footage of Bob Dylan's Masterful Farm Aid Set 

The article says: "He wound up wearing the hoodie, though not pulled as tightly around his face as it has been at recent shows, and he agreed to both the projection screens and the livestream. There weren’t closeups, the stage was pretty dark, and much of the stadium audience had a hard time seeing him clearly, but these were major concessions given his history. Very few Never Ending Tour shows have been professionally filmed like this, let alone broadcast on the Internet."

In terms of his performance, I was a bit disappointed that it was rather short, shorter than all the other major acts. And his song selection was pretty conservative, all 1960s classics plus "I Can Tell," a cover of a Bo Diddley song. Still, some Dylan is better than no Dylan, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 23 minutes long. 

01 talk by John Mellencamp (Bob Dylan)
02 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
03 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
04 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
05 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
06 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CDHup6V1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/G3rSkqbJ1kYm6UH/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Note how Dylan is wearing a hoodie and generally shrouded in darkness. It took me a while before I could even find a decent photo showing this much of him.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 9: John Mellencamp

Here's the ninth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. It's a set by John Mellencamp.

I'm getting close to the end posting all the sets from the concert that got enough votes in the poll I made. The later the festival, the bigger the names of the stars, and sometimes the longer the sets.

Like Dave Matthews, who was the star of the set just before this one, Mellencamp hadn't released an album for the two years prior to the concert. He mostly stuck to older hits, with the most recent song being "Lawless Times," released in 2014 on the album  "Plain Spoken."

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 talk by Dave Matthews (John Mellencamp)
02 Lawless Times (John Mellencamp)
03 Small Town (John Mellencamp)
04 Paper in Fire (John Mellencamp)
05 talk (John Mellencamp)
06 Longest Days (John Mellencamp)
07 Jack and Diane (John Mellencamp)
08 Rain on the Scarecrow (John Mellencamp)
09 Pink Houses (John Mellencamp)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yNFYvjtu

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7hkPw3vVmDYXsrM/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 8: Dave Matthews

This is the eighth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This is a set by Dave Matthews.

At the time of this concert, Matthews hadn't released a new studio album since 2023. However, he did play one new, unreleased song, "Peace on Earth." He was backed by Tim Reynolds for the whole set. The last three songs also featured Jake Renick Simpson on fiddle.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk by Margo Price (Dave Matthews)
02 talk (Dave Matthews)
03 Oh (Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Dave Matthews)
05 Grey Street (Dave Matthews)
06 talk (Dave Matthews)
07 Peace on Earth (Dave Matthews)
08 talk (Dave Matthews)
09 Don't Drink the Water - This Land Is Your Land (Dave Matthews)
10 talk (Dave Matthews)
11 Crush (Dave Matthews)
12 talk (Dave Matthews)
13 Warehouse (Dave Matthews)
14 Ants Marching (Dave Matthews) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fPy1fLjv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/94EfrRULzARPQ0o/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 7: Margo Price

Here's the seventh album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefix concert. This one is a set by country singer-songwriter Margo Price.

Price released her fifth album, "Hard Headed Woman," just one month prior to this concert. Although she's American, she's been especially popular in Britain, where three of her albums have reached Number One in the country album chart there.

Here's her Wikipedia entry if you want to know more. 

Margo Price - Wikipedia 

The sound quality is excellent. The only edit I made was to the first track, an introduction by Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. I'm politically liberal and I like Klobuchar, but I cut out some political speech and kept her comments to just introducing Price. The other stuff isn't something I would want to hear multiple times.

Note that Billy Stringers, the guitarist who was the star of the set prior to this, helped out on the last song, a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm." 

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 talk by Amy Klobuchar [Edit] (Margo Price)
02 Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down (Margo Price)
03 Red Eye Flight (Margo Price)
04 Wild at Heart (Margo Price)
05 talk (Margo Price)
06 Nowhere Is Where (Margo Price)
07 talk (Margo Price)
08 Kissing You Goodbye (Margo Price)
09 talk (Margo Price)
10 Deportee [Plane Wreck at Los Gatos] (Margo Price)
11 Don't Wake Me Up (Margo Price)
12 Love Me Like You Used to Do (Margo Price)
13 talk (Margo Price)
14 Maggie's Farm (Margo Price with Billy Strings) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/673L1PDV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/HwJMvsJLPRlUBGW/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 6: Billy Strings

Here's the sixth album I'm posting from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one features Billy Strings.

Strings has developed quite a reputation for his guitar playing. He is also an accomplished singer and songwriter. He specializes in bluegrass music, but has also made a name for himself in "jam band" circles.

Here's his Wikipedia entry: 

Billy Strings - Wikipedia

This album is 31 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Billy Strings)
02 talk (Billy Strings)
03 Dust in a Baggie (Billy Strings)
04 Hellbender (Billy Strings)
05 talk (Billy Strings)
06 Away from the Mire (Billy Strings)
07 New Country Blues (Billy Strings)
08 talk (Billy Strings)
09 Gild the Lily (Billy Strings)
10 talk (Billy Strings)
11 Doin' My Time (Billy Strings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ePPeCutT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7tPv5HJnG8JKBYk/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 5: Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell

Here's the fifth album from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one stars Lukas Nelson. I've included Sierra Ferrell in a supporting role in the title as well. She wasn't officially named as part of this musical act, but she had a prominent role in five out of the six songs, and that seems pretty significant to me. Note also that the one song without Ferrell is a duet with Dave Matthews.

Lukas Nelson is one of the children of country music legend Willie Nelson who has pursued a career in music. He has had success leading the Promise of the Real as the backing band for both Neil Young and Willie Nelson for many years. He also had a prominent role writing and producing songs for the 2018 movie "A Star Is Born."

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Lukas Nelson - Wikipedia 

Here's a music bigger entry about him and the Promise of the Real: 

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Wikipedia 

And here's the entry for Sierra Ferrell:

Sierra Ferrell - Wikipedia 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Lukas Nelson)
02 talk (Lukas Nelson)
03 Ain't Done (Lukas Nelson with Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
05 The Maker (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
06 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
07 Friend in the End (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
08 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
09 [Forget About] Georgia (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
10 talk (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
11 Unknown Legend (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)
12 Find Yourself (Lukas Nelson with Sierra Ferrell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mXLaVS7m

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/9qc6H0vYJIJKtFr/file

The cover photo of Nelson and Ferrell is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 4: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

Here's the fourth album I've prepared from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one is set by  Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. (In reality, a couple of the Steve Earle songs from the previous set were performed after this set ended, but I put all the Earle songs together in one album.)

Nathaniel Rateliff's biggest success so far is probably the song "S.O.B.," which was a surprise hit in some countries in 2015 after he performed it on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Kimmel. His style is a kind of upbeat mix of soul and country. Here's his Wikipedia entry:

Nathaniel Rateliff - Wikipedia

This album is 29 minutes long.

01 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
02 I'm on Your Side (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
03 Heartless (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
04 Look It Here (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
05 Intro (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
06 I Need Never Get Old (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
07 S.O.B. (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
08 Love Don't (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)
09 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CbyAgqV5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XiMOWTdry17qiY3/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 3: Steve Earle

Here's the third album I've made from the 2025 Farm Aid benefit concert. This one features singer-songwriter Steve Earle. Note that it's quite short, only 16 minutes long.

This is probably the strangest of all the sets from the Farm Aid concert. First, it's strange in that it's easily the shortest of all the sets that day. But also, it was split in two. He performed two songs, then Nathaniel Rateliff came on and played a set. Then Earle came back and played two more songs.

My strong suspicion is that this was a kind of impromptu bonus appearance. Meaning he was attending the concert and decided to just get up on stage and play a few songs while he was there. The fact that it was a solo acoustic set is further evidence, since having a band would have meant a bunch of preparation. But anyway, some Steve Earle is better than no Steve Earle.

I decided to take the two short sets he did and merge them into one. That's why there's an "[Edit]" in the title of "The Rain Came Down." Near the end of the song, between saying "thank you" twice, he mentioned that Nathaniel Rateliff was going to come on for a set and then he'd come back. I used the MVSEP audio editing program to edit those comments out, since they don't fit when these songs are presented together.

As mentioned above, this album is 16 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Steve Earle)
02 talk (Steve Earle)
03 Guitar Town (Steve Earle)
04 talk (Steve Earle)
05 The Rain Came Down [Edit] (Steve Earle)
06 The Galway Girl - Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Nzk4mhSa

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uqlWz4ymz3Xccu2/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 2: Wynonna Judd

The second album from the 2025 Farm Aid concert is a set by Wynonna Judd.

Judd is a big country star who has sold millions of albums, first as part of the duo the Judds with her mother Naomi, and then as a solo act. The famous actress Ashley Judd is also her half-sister.

Here's her Wikipedia entry:

Wynonna Judd - Wikipedia 

This album is 30 minutes long. 

01 talk by Angie Craig (Wynonna Judd)
02 I Saw the Light (Wynonna Judd)
03 Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain (Wynonna Judd)
04 Rock Bottom (Wynonna Judd)
05 talk (Wynonna Judd)
06 She Is His Only Need (Wynonna Judd)
07 talk (Wynonna Judd)
08 Why Not Me (Wynonna Judd)
09 talk (Wynonna Judd)
10 No One Else on Earth (Wynonna Judd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zbfdAkCk

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2fGQTuSvWKJPn1h/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 1: Waxahatchee

It's time I start posting albums from the Farm Aid benefit concert that took place about three weeks ago as I write this in October 2025. This was the fortieth Farm Aid concert. As you probably know if you're reading this, I posted a poll to see which of the acts that performed in the concert are popular enough to merit having their sets posted here. Twelve of the musical acts made the cut, and only five did not.

I'm posting these in the order the ones that got chosen performed that day. Note that I plan to keep my write-up short. If I do that, I'll be more likely to post music from this big festivals in the future.

Waxahatchee is basically the name of singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, though it also applies to her backing band. Her music is country influenced. Here's her Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Waxahatchee - Wikipedia 

This album is 25 minutes long. Note that most of the sets from this festival are fairly short, about the same length at this one, other than a couple of the headliner acts.

01 talk (Waxahatchee)
02 Can't Do Much (Waxahatchee)
03 Problem with It (Waxahatchee)
04 Right Back to It (Waxahatchee)
05 Crowbar (Waxahatchee)
06 talk (Waxahatchee)
07 Much Ado about Nothing (Waxahatchee)
08 talk (Waxahatchee)
09 Fire (Waxahatchee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mVMDhg5N

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/15SFcZb1BHWqwBQ/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I took the "Farm Aid 40" text and logo at the top from promotional material from the concert.