Neil Young kicked off his four-show residency at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Monday, and video from the opening night event is available.
Rolling Stone reports Young treated fans to an absolutely jaw-dropping two hour and 20-minute show that focused largely on material from1966 to 1978. He only deviated from that era for two songs from 1992's “Harvest Moon”, the 1989 obscurity "Someday", and a pair of covers by Phil Ochs and Bert Jansch.
But the night was largely devoted to classics from Young's commercial peak in the early Seventies.
It's been years since he crammed this many hits into a set, playing over half the songs on 1972's "Harvest" ("Heart of Gold," "Are You Ready for the Country," "Old Man," "The Needle and the Damage Done," "A Man Needs A Maid" and "Harvest"), along with "Ohio," "After the Gold Rush," "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," "Comes a Time," "Long May You Run" and his first performance of "Southern Man" in nearly a decade.
Young performs three more shows at Carnegie Hall this week – on January 7th, 9th & 10th.
Neil then returns to his Canadian homeland to perform four “Honor The Treaties” benefit shows with Diana Krall to raise money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Legal Defense Fund, to aid them in their battle against oil companies and the government to preserve their land – read about the shows here.
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