Neil Younger has introduced a solo acoustic tour of the West Coast, however the dates and venues will not be revealed till Friday.
He unveiled the information on Zoom to paid Patron subscribers to the Neil Younger Archives, noting that the tour will concentrate on songs he is by no means performed stay.
“I do not wish to come again and do the identical songs once more,” Younger mentioned [via Rolling Stone]. “I will really feel like I used to be on some type of carnival trip. I might slightly be doing these different songs I have never carried out. … I will not have to check how I am doing ‘Coronary heart of Gold’ to [how I played it in] 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020.”
Based on Younger, he is been rehearsing roughly 15 songs, together with “Track X” from his 1995 album with Pearl Jam, Mirror Ball, “Prime of Life” from 1994’s Sleeps With Angels and “If You Acquired Love,” an outtake from 1982’s Trans.
“I did a demo of [‘If You Got Love’] a number of years [after Trans] with a Synclavier, a drum machine, harmonica and a few results,” Younger defined. “I listened to it [recently], and it turned me on once more. I am now doing it with the organ and harmonica. It is fairly cool.”
Younger added that “they are not new songs. They’re outdated songs. However I get up with them in my head each morning. They’re songs that apply to my life proper now and apply to everybody’s lives on this period that we’re in. A few of them had been written 10, 20, 30, 40 years in the past however by no means actually performed stay.”
The singer-songwriter has not toured since 2019, citing considerations about COVID-19, environmental harm and ticketing practices. He appeared briefly on the United for Outdated Progress Rally in British Columbia earlier this 12 months; he additionally made appearances at Stephen Stills’ Mild Up the Blues charity present and Willie Nelson’s ninetieth birthday live performance.
Regardless that Younger didn’t point out any particular areas for the upcoming tour, he famous that the run will start with a four- or five-night residency at a “tiny, little unknown theater that is near one of the crucial well-known theaters on this planet” on the West Coast.
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