http://www.sxsw.com for
details, but be sure to book a hotel sooner than later to avoid
staying halfway to Dallas.
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6
Topic: Sat Night Live Dec 17
Neil Young to Appear on "Saturday Night Live" December 17th
08 December 2005
Market Wire
Artist Receives 2 Grammy(R) Award Nominations
BURBANK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Dec 08, 2005 --
Neil Young will appear on NBC-TV's "Saturday
Night Live" on December 17th, performing music
from his Grammy Award-nominated "Prairie Wind"
album. The recent album has been receiving
accolades since its release in September, and is
cited on many critical lists as one of 2005's best albums of the year.
In the Grammy announcements on Dec. 8th, Young
received nominations for Rock Album of the Year
for "Prairie Wind" and Best Solo Rock Vocal
Performance for the song "The Painter" from that
album. Co-produced by Young and Ben Keith,
"Prairie Wind" was recorded last spring in
Nashville, using musicians from that city's
A-list of players, including keyboardist Spooner
Oldham, bassist Rick Rosas, drummers Chad
Cromwell and Karl Himmel and special guest vocalist Emmylou Harris.
In August, Young performed two nights at the
historic Ryman Auditorium. Both concerts were
filmed by Academy Award®-winning director
Jonathan Demme for Paramount Pictures. The
feature-length movie is scheduled for an early 2006 release.
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6
Topic: 2006 Grammy Nominees
Best rock solo performance :
Revolution - Eric Clapton
Shine it All Around - Robert Plant
Devils and Dust - Bruce Springsteen
This is How a Breaks - Rob Thomas
The Painter - Neil Young
Best rock album:
X&Y - Coldplay
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
A Bigger Bang - The Rolling Stones
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2
Prairie Wind - Neil Young
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Sean Tanner
Topic: Neil will Tour Australia in Early 2006
Source: This weekends West Australian Newspaper who did an article regarding
him turning 60.
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Barry McBride
Topic: Neil on SNL
I heard Howard Stern talking about an upcoming appearance on SNL, 12/17. He mentioned Neil will be the musical guest that night
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Tom Hambleton
Topic: Setlists Neil on Conan
11-01-2005, NBC Studios, New York City, New York
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
w/ The Prairie Wind Band
Far From Home
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11-02-2005, NBC Studios, New York City, New York
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
w/ The Prairie Wind Band
The Painter
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11-03-2005, NBC Studios, New York City, New York
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
w/ The Prairie Wind Band
This Old Guitar / The Needle And The Damage Done
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11-04-2005, NBC Studios, New York City, New York
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
w/ The Prairie Wind Band
No Wonder / When God Made Me
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 00:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: chris loder
Topic: Neil on BBC Radio 2
Today Johnny Walker anounced, on air, that he will be having Neil on his show in "a couple of weeks".
Check out the listen again www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/walker/
about 1Hr 8Mins Johnny plays cinnamon girl then makes anouncement.
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Tim Magaw
Topic: Neil on Conan
"Following U2's recent weeklong takeover of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," Neil Young has signed on to appear four nights in a row
(Nov. 1-4) on the NBC talk show. Young will head to New York to tape the shows immediately after the 19th Bridge School Benefit concerts
in Mountain View, Calif., at which he will perform with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001306374
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Brian Harris
Topic: Video clips
Found some stuff. Here are some video clips of the following songs:
It's a Dream - http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/neilyoung_itsadream_450-v.asx
&
This Old Guitar - http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/neilyoung_thisoldguitar_450-v.asx
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Tom Hambleton
Topic: Neil Young Opens Vaults
From Rolling Stone,
AUSTIN SCAGGS
(Posted Sep 22, 2005)
Neil Young Opens Vaults
Rocker to release series of eight-disc rarities sets
After nearly fifteen years of promises, Neil Young is now confident that a
slew of material from his vaults will begin to see the light of day in 2006.
With his latest album, Prairie Wind, out next week, the rock legend is
planning several eight-disc sets packed with outtakes, home recordings,
album tracks, live cuts and DVDs.
"It starts with my earliest recordings in 1963," says Young. "Then several
recordings with a group called the Squires, into the earliest Buffalo
Springfield stuff. Then there's a live record culled from a week's worth of
performances at the Riverboat in Toronto."
Fans can expect a 1970 show at Toronto's Massey Hall, featuring material
from Harvest a year before its release, as well as Crazy Horse live at the
Fillmore East. "It's got a sixteen-minute 'Cowgirl in the Sand,'" Young says
of the Fillmore gig, "and a super-long 'Down by the River.'"
One live performance, the rock vet is convinced, trumps the original
recording: the entirety of Tonight's the Night, recorded live at London's
Rainbow Theatre. Says Young, "It's better than the record."
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: AH
Topic: 19th Annual Bridge School Benefit
19th Annual Bridge School Benefit
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Norah Jones / Emmylou Harris / Jerry Lee Lewis / Good Charlotte / Bright Eyes / Los Lobos
October 29 & 30, 2005 - 5:00 PM
On Sale September 25, 2005 - 10:00AM
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neil Young angrily defends Farm Aid's reputation
Published September 19, 2005, 3:00 PM CDT
Even before the 11 hours of music began Sunday at Farm Aid's 20th
anniversary concert, Neil Young was fighting mad.
He delivered one of the more passionate performances the annual charity show
has ever seen without lifting a guitar. Instead, at a media conference
packed with farm advocates preceding the onstage revelry at the Tweeter
Center in Tinley Park, Young took this newspaper to task for a story printed
in its Saturday edition that questioned the charity's distribution of funds.
The Tribune report "hurt our reputation" by distorting the charity's
mission, Young said. "We are not purely raising money for farmers. That's a
small part of what we do." He explained that Farm Aid funds myriad
activities, from political lobby groups to suicide prevention, that aid
farmers.
"The people at the Chicago Tribune should be held responsible for this piece
of crap," Young stormed, then ripped a copy of the newspaper in half and
tossed it aside to a room full of cheers.
The controversy clouded what was otherwise a sunlit celebration for an
organization that has raised $27 million for family farms since its first
concert in 1985.
Young, who has consistently played the outspoken and frequently cantankerous
caretaker of all things Farm Aid next to Willie Nelson's grandfatherly
philosopher, sustained that level of intensity a half-day later when he took
the stage with a band that included a gospel choir, a Nashville rhythm
section and a Memphis horn section.
Aid to Gulf Coast
He noted that Farm Aid has been heavily involved in aiding Gulf Coast
farmers since Hurricane Katrina struck, and performed a horn-spackled
version of Fats Domino's "Walking to New Orleans." He followed with a brutal
"Southern Man," punctuated by several fierce guitar solos. "When God Made
Me" offered solace at the grand piano. Nelson and Emmylou Harris joined the
singer for the ballads "This Old Guitar" and "One of These Days," which
offered reassurance by leaning on old friends and trusted rituals. Young's
anger had given way once again to the idea that a community can see its way
through any crisis.
Most of the other headliners stuck to a more predictable script, but their
greatest-hits sets went over well. John Mellencamp punched out defiant
versions of "Authority Song" and "Crumblin' Down," but it was violinist
Miriam Sturm who redefined the character of every song with her taut
virtuosity.
Dave Matthews joined Widepread Panic for the gospel lament "None of Us Are
Free," then later offered solo renditions of some of his best-known songs.
Without the usual gaggle of showboating soloists flying around him, Matthews
honed his sometimes marble-mouthed phrasing to a fine point on "Gravedigger"
and "Don't Drink the Water," in which he referenced Woody Guthrie's "This
Land is Your Land."
Guthrie's lyrics also figured in Wilco's buoyant set. Like Young, singer
Jeff Tweedy loudly took issue with the Tribune's Farm Aid story before
launching into a spirited "The Late Greats." But it's likely the band's
greatest Farm Aid memory came before it played a note, when it was given a
fire-and-brimstone introduction by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Buddy Guy did some fire-and-brimstoning of his own, as he took one of his
acolytes to blues school for the first time. He and his band were joined by
John Mayer, who played the role of the young upstart learning at the foot of
the master guitarist. Mayer's earnestly competent solos were met with a
smile and a barrage of shards and splinters from Guy's spectacularly casual
string-bending.
Complete 'Alice's Restaurant'
It wasn't until Guy took the stage in the late afternoon that the concert
gained focus. Earlier, Arlo Guthrie performed all 17 minutes of his '60s
talking blues, "Alice's Restaurant," and performers such as Jimmy Sturr's
polka band and the Second Amendments, a collection of U.S. congressmen
playing garage-rock covers, gave the concert a bloated, directionless feel.
It backlogged the later acts, and Nelson didn't get on stage until almost
midnight to end the show.
Even then, however, enthusiasm in the audience was high. Nelson drifted
through the proceedings like a benevolent, gray-haired eminence. He played
modest cameo roles alongside his Texas comrades, Los Lonely Boys, and even
grinned his way through Sturr's wide-eyed fiddle solos.
Whereas Young had blood in his eye most of the day, Nelson calmly assessed
the damage and vowed to plow ahead, wry humor intact. "We have a new motto
for our critics out there," he said. "We're not happy till you're not
happy."
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Farm Aid Turns Twenty
From Billboard Magazine
Farm Aid staged its 20th annual benefit concert yesterday (Sept. 19) in the
Chicago suburb Tinley Park, with a galaxy of stars pledging help for
overlooked rural victims of Hurricane Katrina. The daylong show grossed $1.3
million in ticket sales and played to an enthusiastic crowd of more than
28,000 for more than 10 hours.
Farm Aid's president, Texas music legend Willie Nelson, closed the show
after energetic performances by fellow founding members Neil Young and John
Mellencamp.
After thanking the crowd for its support of Farm Aid's Gulf Coast relief
effort, Young launched into Fats Domino's "Walking to New Orleans" and a
blistering "Southern Man," his rarely performed early 1970s anthem about
racial prejudice.
Singer Dave Matthews, who joined the Farm Aid board several years ago, said
he was "still a little nervous" during a solo performance but less so around
"big brothers like Willie, Neil and John."
Others on the bill included Wilco, Buddy Guy, Emmylou Harris and country
singer Kenny Chesney, appearing days after splitting with wife, actress
Renee Zellweger.
Conceived by Nelson during the depths of the U.S. farm income crisis and
first staged in Champaign, Ill., in 1985, when Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
were among the headliners, Farm Aid has survived to see better times for
many farmers.
The group is now closely associated with the "good food movement" of
small-scale and organic producers against huge factory farms and
corporate-driven production agriculture. "We are here to promote food from
family farms," said Caroline Mugar, executive director of Farm Aid.
"Changing the food you buy changes the way your food is grown."
The number of farmers' markets in the United States rose by 79 percent in
2002 from 1994. The organic food industry grew by 20 percent in 2003 to
account for more than $10 billion in consumer sales.
Farm Aid's organizers moved quickly to ensure that some funds from the
concert were earmarked for rural areas on the Gulf Coast devastated by
Hurricane Katrina, which they say have been neglected by the authorities.
"It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans
about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word
'rural,'" said Jim Hightower, a columnist and former Texas Agriculture
Commissioner.
Two decades worth of Farm Aid events have raised some $27 million, of which
the group says over 80 percent has been spent on programs to promote family
farming. Of that, only a small percentage goes directly to farmers in the
form of grants, the Chicago Tribune reported on Saturday, raising the
hackles of the Farm Aid organization.
The goals of Farm Aid are broader than just cutting checks to needy farmers,
said Brian Snyder, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association for
Sustainable Agriculture. "Farmers want organizations like Farm Aid to
organize across the country and create an equitable food system," he said,
adding that small-scale farmers aimed to be vocal as the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill
covering federal agricultural subsidies is written.
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: John Rinkenbaugh
Topic: NPR interview
NPR interview with Neil aired Saturday September 17. It can be found at npr.org
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Farm Aid Turns Twenty
From Rolling Stone
Nelson and Mellencamp look back at two decades of activism
BRIAN HIATT
Twenty years ago, Bob Dylan paused during his Live Aid performance at
Philadelphia's JFK Stadium and made a casual suggestion: Maybe "a little
bit" of the money raised for African famine relief could go to struggling
American family farmers. At least one of the millions of people watching
took Dylan's words to heart. "I started asking people about the farm
problems," says Willie Nelson, who grew up in the farming community of
Abbott, Texas. "And we decided to do a Farm Aid. We thought that one concert
would be all that was necessary."
Instead, Nelson and co-founders John Mellencamp and Neil Young will
celebrate twenty years of Farm Aid on September 18th with a concert in
Tinley Park, Illinois, with Los Lonely Boys, Wilco, Emmylou Harris, John
Mayer and Buddy Guy. As both an annual fund-raising show and a year-round
charitable organization, Farm Aid has spent the past two decades fighting
for family farmers in the face of government foreclosures, corporate
megafarms and public indifference. "There was a time when we couldn't even
get people to understand what we were doing," says Mellencamp. "We'd say,
'This is our fifth Farm Aid,' and they're going, 'You're still doing that?'"
Farm Aid has never had trouble recruiting musicians, though. In addition to
Young, Nelson and Mellencamp, the first show, on September 22nd, 1985, in
Champaign, Illinois, included John Fogerty's first solo performance and sets
by Van Halen, Johnny Cash and Lou Reed. "We had just played Live Aid not
long before that, and I always thought that Farm Aid was a much better
show," says Tom Petty, whose Heartbreakers backed Bob Dylan that year. Iggy
Pop and Guns n' Roses played in 1990. Numerous artists, including Steve
Earle, Dave Matthews Band and Emmylou Harris, have become Farm Aid regulars.
Matthews, in particular, showed so much passion for the cause that Nelson --
who is president of Farm Aid -- invited him to join Mellencamp and Young on
the organization's board of directors. "Farmers are the foundation of this
country," says Matthews, who runs an organic farm in Scottsville, Virginia.
"They're unsung heroes of the world, and I'm happy to sing on their behalf."
Farm Aid has given away around $17 million over the years, mostly via small
grants to community groups whose work benefits family farms. It also steps
in during emergencies: On September 1st, Farm Aid donated $30,000 to farmers
whose properties were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. "We know how to put a
little bit of money where it means a lot," says Farm Aid executive director
Carolyn Mugar. "It's not always the big money that turns something around."
Roger Allison and Rhonda Perry, who run a cattle farm in Armstrong,
Missouri, received a $10,000 grant in 1985 to start an emergency food
program for hungry farmers. "In the Eighties, farmers were feeling hopeless
and marginalized," says Allison. "But Farm Aid was hope."
Farm Aid's fight hasn't been easy -- there are 400,000 fewer family farms
today than there were in 1985. But skyrocketing consumer demand for organic
food is a major opportunity for small farmers, and a growing market for
biodiesel -- fuel made from vegetable oils -- offers a new revenue stream.
"I was starting to think we were fighting a noble but useless battle until I
heard about biodiesel," says Nelson, who uses the fuel for his tour bus.
Still, the musicians don't expect the struggle to end any time soon. "I'll
be part of Farm Aid for as long as it's necessary," says Matthews. "And the
way it seems right now, it's going to be necessary for a long time."
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: React Now; Download
From Billboard Magazine.
**Note Neil's Song Change**
Performances by the likes of U2, Neil Young, Green Day, Big & Rich, Trent
Reznor and the Red Hot Chili Peppers from last week's "ReAct Now: Music and
Relief" telethon will soon be available as downloads to benefit hurricane
relief and rebuilding efforts. A total of 26 songs taken from the live MTV
Networks broadcast will be sold for a limited time through various online
retailers with proceeds tabbed for the American Red Cross and Habitat for
Humanity.
The Sept. 10 commercial free broadcast was seen across all of MTV Networks'
various channels, including MTV, MTV2, VH1 and CMT in the United States, and
in several global markets. Since it aired, the company says more than 1
million streams of content from the telethon have been served online via its
broadband networks, MTV Overdrive and VH1 Spot, as well as CMT.com.
Among the selections are U2's "Love & Peace or Else," Young's "Walking In
New Orleans," Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends," Reznor's "Hurt"
and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge," as well as Melissa
Etheridge's "Four Days," a song written specifically for the "ReAct Now"
broadcast.
Most tracks will be available for 60 days, although some will be pulled
after 30 days, according to an MTV Networks spokesperson.
Retailers selling the tracks are CDIGIX, MSN Music, Real Networks, Rhapsody,
Sony Connect and MusicNet-powered download stores FYE and Virgin Digital.
The spokesperson says MTV also approached Apple's iTunes Music Store, but
the popular online retailer declined participation as it already has its own
Katrina-related fundraising activities in place.
Here are the individual "ReAct Now" downloads available:
"Here By Me," 3 Doors Down
"Rainy Day in June," Alan Jackson
"Side of the Road," Beck
"Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes," Beck
"I Pray for You," Big & Rich
"Ghost of a Good Thing," Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional)
"American Baby," Dave Matthews Band
"Cadillacs on 22s," David Banner
"Give a Little Bit," Goo Goo Dolls
"Wake Me Up When September Ends," Green Day
"Home," Mark Broussard
"Don't Let Me Down," Maroon 5
"Four Days," Melissa Etheridge
"Walking In New Orleans," Neil Young
"Given To Fly," Pearl Jam
"Under the Bridge," Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Ever The Same," Rob Thomas
"Time After Time," Rob Thomas
"Good as Good," Sheryl Crow
"Right Here," Staind
"Stand Back Up," Sugarland
"Last Getaway," the Radiators
"Hurt," Trent Reznor
"Non-Entity," Trent Reznor
"Love & Peace or Else," U2
"Home Sweet Home," Motley Crue
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neil Young debuts songs for Jonathan Demme documentary
From Rolling Stone 2 issues down the road
Neil Young Goes Nashville
Rocker debuts songs for Jonathan Demme documentary
AUSTIN SCAGGS
As Neil Young was wrapping up work in Nashville on his new album, Prairie
Wind, he got a call from film director Jonathan Demme. "He told me he had a
year off," says Young, who wrote a song for Demme's 1993 film, Philadelphia.
"He asked if there was anything we could do together."
Young, who wrote and recorded many of the songs on Prairie Wind while being
treated for a potentially deadly brain aneurysm, sent his lyrics to Demme,
and the director was floored. "It's just astonishing -- this stuff comes
from a particularly unique place in his soul and in his life, and the lyrics
come from an extra-special personal dimension," says Demme, a lifelong Young
fan who won an Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs and also directed the
Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense. "As a unified body of work,
Prairie Wind is an extraordinary event."
Prairie Wind completes a trilogy of acoustic-driven albums Young has
recorded in Nashville, beginning with 1972's Harvest and then Harvest Moon
twenty years later. To honor the album's Nashville flavor, Demme decided to
shoot a concert film at the historic Ryman Auditorium, former home of the
Grand Ole Opry. In addition to the ten songs from Prairie Wind, Demme
suggested that Young perform a second set of classic acoustic material.
"I'll always have the place mat that Neil wrote on, in his own handwriting,
the songs from his various Nashville albums that he thought might be
appropriate," says Demme. Among the songs Young chose are "Old Man," "The
Needle and the Damage Done," "Heart of Gold" and "One of These Days." "How
lucky can one music-loving filmmaker get?" says Demme. "It's crazy!"
Young and Demme took the Nashville theme further. Onstage, Young wore a
silver-gray suit, pointed black boots and a white hat. He played an acoustic
guitar that once belonged to Hank Williams. Surrounding him, in equally
elegant outfits -- all the clothes were designed by Manuel, who dressed
Johnny Cash -- were Prairie Wind's core musicians, including Ben Keith on
pedal steel, Spooner Oldham on B3 organ and Chad Cromwell on drums. At times
the band swelled to more than twenty-five members, with horn and string
sections, as well as backing vocalists Emmylou Harris, Pegi Young (Neil's
wife) and the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, a gospel choir.
"We'll start the movie with about ten minutes that create a very vivid sense
of Nashville, of the Ryman, and of the musicians," says Demme, whose film,
also titled Prairie Wind, will be released next year. "Then we're going to
surrender completely to the music and transport the viewer right into the
show."
Even though the concerts marked the public debut of songs from Prairie Wind,
the material was as compelling as the crowd-pleasing hits that followed. The
band was beautifully restrained on mellow new tunes like "The Painter" and
"No Wonder"; a three-piece Memphis horn section lifted up "Far From Home"
and "He Was the King," an ode to Elvis. Young prefaced each song with
personal descriptions of why he wrote them. Before the album's title
track --which begins, "Tryin' to remember what my daddy said/Before too much
time took away his head" -- Young spoke about the dementia his father
suffered before his death in June.
After two nights of filming, Demme still felt there was one song needed:
vintage track "Old Laughing Lady," which he calls "the missing link.
"The last night, after they closed the auditorium," Demme says, "Neil got
onstage and sang that song to an empty Ryman. After he finished, we kept
cameras rolling and he calmly picked up his guitar case, put on his hat and
walked out to the edge of the stage. He glanced around the empty house,
turned in profile to us, then strode off."
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: ReAct Now: Music & Relief
MTV NEWS SEZ...
Airing September 10 from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT, "ReAct Now: Music & Relief"
will feature a mix of live and taped performances and messages from more than 30 artists.
Other participating artists include Maroon 5, Good Charlotte, Audioslave,
Simple Plan, Common, John Mayer, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Dashboard
Confessional, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Melissa Etheridge, Mötley Crüe, Goo Goo Dolls, Staind and Alan Jackson.
"ReAct Now: Music & Relief" will be broadcast commercial-free from New York,
Los Angeles, Nashville and Atlanta and will air simultaneously on MTV, VH1,
CMT, MTV2, VH1 Classic and mtvU, as well as on the broadband online channels
MTV Overdrive and VSpot.
The special will raise funds for the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army,
America's Second Harvest and similar organizations. Additional details will
be announced in the coming days.
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CNN alert
Topic: Stars pitch in for Katrina benefits
Several recording artists have been added to the list of performers for Friday's cross-network Hurricane Katrina benefit concert, and many more celebrities are adding their money and energy to the cause.
Among the latest musicians announced for "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast" are Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys and Paul Simon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Newman's song "Louisiana 1927," from his 1974 album "Good Old Boys," has been one of the most-played songs since the disaster. Aaron Neville performed the tune, about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, on last Friday's NBC Katrina fund-raiser.
Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray Romano, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Diaz, Sela Ward and Chris Rock are among the celebrities who have already committed to the program, which will air on all the major broadcast networks as well as several cable networks. Ninety-five countries will carry the show, which will air live at 8 p.m. ET and on tape delay in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.
A separate show, "ReAct Now: Music & Relief," will air Saturday on MTV, VH1 and CMT (8 p.m. ET) with artists including the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Alan Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, the Neville Brothers and Kanye West.
Donations coming in
A number of celebrities and entertainment entities have announced donations to organizations raising funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which decimated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida in late August. According to The Associated Press, the list includes the following:
Steven Spielberg and his family are donating $750,000 to the American Red Cross and $750,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.
George Clooney will donate $1 million to the United Way Hurricane Katrina Response Fund. The actor-director is a member of the United Way Board of Trustees.
Barry Manilow will match every dollar donated through the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope, with the fund also adding a dollar, turning $1 into $3.
The Recording Academy and its MusiCares Foundation have pledged an initial donation of $1 million to help "music people" affected by the hurricane.
From September 11-18, jazz musicians in Manhattan will raise money for the American Red Cross with shows in clubs throughout the city.
Jazz at Lincoln Center will host a benefit concert September 17 in New York City. Among those participating: Wynton Marsalis, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Robert De Niro, Paul Simon and Bette Midler.
"Gospel Angels," a live concert from Atlanta, will air September 22 (8 p.m. ET) on the Gospel Music Channel and Paxson Communications' i network. The show will include performances from hurricane victims' shelters.
John Grisham and his wife have made a $5 million contribution to establish a relief fund to help Mississippians rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
Michael Jackson has written a song -- tentatively titled "From the Bottom of My Heart" -- and will soon record it, with funds going to Katrina benefit efforts. He plans on asking other musicians to join him in the recording, according to a spokesperson.
Source: CNN
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CNN alert
Topic: Networks set Friday for Katrina telethon
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The six major U.S. television networks agreed Friday to a September 9 air date for a rare joint broadcast of a live, all-star charity concert to raise money for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
No details on talent were immediately unveiled for the show, dubbed "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast."
But plans call for an hourlong, commercial-free special featuring musical performances and appearances by leading entertainers appealing for cash donations to the hurricane relief effort.
The stars also will pay tribute to storm victims and rescue personnel who have saved thousands from floodwaters in the stricken region, organizers said.
The telethon will be carried live in the Eastern time zones by six major commercial broadcasters -- CBS, ABC, Fox, NBC, the WB and UPN networks -- and tape-delayed for the West Coast and mountain regions.
The simulcast, starting at 8 p.m. EDT, also will be made available to cable networks, radio stations and broadband Internet providers.
The event is being put together by veteran producer Joel Gallen, the man behind a similar two-hour special aired by the major networks four years ago, 10 days after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
That telethon, called "America: A Tribute to Heroes," drew 59 million viewers and raised more than $150 million in pledges to assist families of people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Separately, NBC went ahead Friday with its own live benefit for hurricane relief, featuring performances by Louisiana-born music stars Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Tim McGraw. CNN's Larry King hosted a "How You Can Help" program Saturday night, which included appearances by Connick, Eric Clapton, Celine Dion and Bill Cosby.
The lineup for yet another fundraising concert special airing September 10 on MTV includes the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Brian Wilson, Melissa Etheridge and the Neville Brothers, organizers said on Friday.
And numerous stars, including Mariah Carey, Julie Andrews, Pamela Anderson and George Lopez, will appear in a series of American Red Cross public service spots for hurricane relief airing on E! Entertainment Television. Those began Saturday.
Source: CNN.com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:45 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Jim McQuaid
Topic: video from upcoming release - The Painter
Here's a link of the complete song called, "The Painter".
http://tinyurl.com/8anb6
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Brian Harris
Topic: 1st Single from upcoming release - The Painter
Here's a link of the complete song called, "The Painter".
http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/neilyoung_thepainter_56-a.asx
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neil Young debutes material from "Prairie Wind" album
Neil Young debuted material from his panoramic "Prairie Wind" album to an
appreciative audience last night (Aug. 18) at the first of two shows at
Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. The set is due Sept. 27 via Reprise.
As previously reported, the invitation-only (save for a few radio station
giveaways) Ryman shows are being filmed by director Jonathan Demme for a
concert film to be released by Paramount Classics in theaters and on DVD at
a date to be determined. The film will be executive produced by Clinica
Estetica and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone.
The near-capacity crowd was treated to a nearly three-hour performance by
Young, his first lengthy stage work since recovering from brain surgery to
repair an aneurysm last spring. Relaxed and confident, Young engaged in
amiable between-song stage patter, name-checking Hank Williams, Faron Young,
Nicolette Larson, Vassar Clements and Rufus Thibodeaux.
Referring to the venerated Ryman as a "church of all kinds," Young delivered
stirring renditions of the new songs, conveyed in a sparse, acoustic-based
style reminiscent of such classic albums as "Harvest" and "Comes a Time."
He was backed brilliantly by such longtime collaborators as keyboardist
Spooner Oldham, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummers Chad Cromwell and
Karl Himmel, bassist Rick Rosas, and guitarist Grant Boatwright, along with
Clinton Gregory on fiddle, horn players Tom McGinley and Jimmy Sharp,
vocalists Pegi Young, Diana DeWitt, Gary Pigg and Anthony Crawford and
special guest Emmylou Harris on guitar and vocals.
At times more than 30 musicians were on the fabled Ryman stage, but the
focus was on Young, who sang and played with authority the album's sprawling
themes of family, love, nostalgia and spirituality. Highlights included the
anthemic "The Painter" and "No Wonder" (with Keith's haunting electric
dobro), as well as more personal cuts like the wistful "Here For you" and
bluesy paternal ode in the title cut.
After a first set of all new material, the second set dug into the back
catalog for such favorites as "I Am a Child," "Heart of Gold," "Old Man,"
"The Needle and the Damage Done" and "Comes a Time." Also of a note were a
rare performance of the hound dog homage "Old King" (preceded by a rambling
but strangely touching intro about Young's dog Elvis) and a show-closing
"One of These Days."
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 5:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neils Filming Closed to the Public /Movie and Dvd!
By BRAD SCHMITT
from the Tennessean
Published: Tuesday, 08/16/05
Even if you live on Sugar Mountain, even if you know the Cinnamon Girl, even
if you've got a heart of gold, you're not getting into the Neil Young movie
filming happening this week at the Ryman.
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)
is making a full-length motion picture from the private performances
happening here Thursday and Friday. The film will be released through
Paramount Pictures in December or early next year.
And that, for better or for worse, is how most of us will see what happens
at the Ryman this week.
Filmmakers had for a while considered selling tickets, but there are going
to be too many cameras and too much filmmaking equipment to make that
possible. So the relatively few audience members who will be there come from
invitation lists from Neil's record label and from Paramount Pictures.
Those of you lucky enough to get in will definitely feel some Nashville
flavor. Neil and filmmakers have invited Emmylou Harris, the Fisk Jubilee
Singers and the Nashville String Machine to be part of the fun.
So what's going to happen? You might recall Jonathan Demme made 1980s
Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense, but Neil's folks are being quiet
about what's gonna happen with this movie.
"A Neil Young concert unlike anything he's ever done," a label spokesman
said but wouldn't give any details. "It's new music, plus surprises."
What surprises? He and Emmylou juggling fire? Neil Young covers Little Jimmy
Dickens? No one's saying.
I can tell you what the movie won't have, and that's all the
behind-the-scenes footage that was shot earlier this year when Neil made his
upcoming album, A Prairie Wind, here in town. That footage will be packaged
as a DVD with the album, to be released Sept. 27.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 5:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: From Billboard Daily
Neil Young has signed a new, multi-album deal with Reprise, which will kick
in with the Sept. 27 release of his latest studio set, "Prairie Wind." Young
recorded for Reprise from 1969 to 1983 and returned to the label in 1988
after a wildly experimental five-album stint on Geffen.
As previously reported, a major facet of the new deal will be a long-awaited
series of archival releases from Young. According to Reprise, the series,
which will get underway next year, will feature previously unreleased studio
recordings and rarities as well as live material.
"I look forward to continuing my partnership with Reprise," Young said in a
statement. "We've been through a lot together over the years. When you're
with a company that long, it's like a family.
On Thursday and Friday (Aug. 18-19), Young will perform at Nashville's Ryman
Auditorium as part of a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme. The
as-yet-untitled project will hit theaters next year via Paramount.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Len Read
Topic: Prairie Wind
Internet CD site play247 has the following song titles listed for Prairie
Wind:
1. The Painter
2. No Wonder
3. Falling Off Of The Face Of The Earth
4. Far From Home
5. It's A Dream
6. Prairie Wind
7. Here For You
8. This Old Guitar
9. He Was The King
10. When God Made Me
No other info though.
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 9, Issue 5
Topic: Demme on Prairie Wind
11 August 2005
The Capital Times & Wisconsin State Journal
Neil Young: Movie star
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme is planning to capture Canadian
rocker Neil Young's upcoming two-night stand in Nashville in a
concert film to be distributed by Paramount Classics.
The documentary, titled " Prairie Wind," will be shot on Aug. 18 and
19 at the city's Ryman Auditorium and will showcase a batch of new
tunes from Young's forthcoming album of the same name, due out on
Sept. 27. According to reports, the studio's indie division agreed to
acquire the movie based on Demme's and Young's track records without
hearing any of the songs.
Demme, who won a best director Oscar for 1991's "The Silence of the
Lambs," is no stranger to concert films - he helmed probably the
greatest in the genre, 1984's "Stop Making Sense," which chronicled
the Talking Heads in concert.
"Because he never backslides, I've talked to Neil often about doing a
performance film, and I knew this was right as soon as he sent me the
CD," Demme told Daily Variety. "These songs, which cover everything
from 9/11 to loving your children, came from a deep place, and they
are so dreamy and gorgeous. He recorded them in between when he was
told he had an aneurysm and when he had the operation to correct it.
Maybe he was in a certain special place."
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1
Topic: Prairie Wind
A contact at Reprise told us:
"Prairie Wind," which is being called one of Neil Young's
masterpieces, is a moving series of songs reflecting his life's journey.
(It was recorded recently in Nashville and Northern California and is
scheduled for a September 27th release.)
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 21:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Emmylou To Join Neil In Nashville
Neil Young will be joined at his upcoming stand at Nashville's Ryman
Auditorium by Emmylou Harris, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, the Fisk
University Jubilee Singers and Carl Gorodetsky and the Nashville String
Machine. As previously reported, the Aug. 18-19 shows will be taped for a
concert film by director Jonathan Demme.
Sources say the shows are expected to encompass a complete performance of
Young's new album, "Prairie Wind," due Sept. 27 via Reprise. As on the
record, the artist will be backed at the Ryman by keyboardist Spooner
Oldham, pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, drummer Chad Cromwell,
percussionist Karl Himmel and bassist Rick Rosas.
A small amount of tickets will likely be available to the general public
closer to the date of the event. Paramount Pictures will release the film in
theaters and on DVD, but no schedule has yet been announced.
At deadline, the only other shows on Young's schedule are a Sept. 18
appearance at Farm Aid outside Chicago and Oct. 29-30 at his annual Bridge
School Benefit outside San Francisco. However, sources say the artist is
mulling a handful of other dates in the fall.
By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. From Billboard
Date: Sat, 23 July 2005 8:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 8, Issue 14
Topic: New Neil Young Album
'Wind' Blowing In New, Rare Young Albums
Daily News - Generic
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
22 July 2005
Billboard
Neil Young has christened his new studio album "Prairie Wind," which
will be released as a CD/DVD package Sept. 20 via Reprise. "The DVD
shows us recording the whole record," the artist writes on his Web
site. "Every note you hear, you see!" The set is expected to feature
contributions from keyboardist Spooner Oldham, pedal steel guitarist
Ben Keith and drummer Carl Himmel.
As first reported here, Young will also be the subject of a concert
film to be shot during several performances next month at Nashville's
Ryman Auditorium. The project will be directed by Jonathan Demme
("Stop Making Sense," "The Silence of the Lambs").
And while full touring plans have yet to be confirmed, Young is set
to appear at the annual Farm Aid benefit concert Sept. 18 in Tinley
Park, Ill., which will feature performances from Willie Nelson, John
Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Wilco and new addition Kenny Chesney.
Young will also perform at his long-running Bridge School fundraiser
Oct. 29-30 in Mountain View, Calif.
Finally, the artist's site says his next major project will be the
release of "Archives Vol. 1" on a yet-to-be-announced date. Young has
been conceptualizing the release of material from his extensive
vaults for decades, and the project has frequently come and gone from
release schedules over the years.
Date: Sun, 17 July 2005 23:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bad_news_beat Digest, Vol 8, Issue 11
Topic: Bridge Benefit
Bridge alumni may reunite for anniversary shows
(Reuters, Saturday July 16)
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Neil Young's annual Bridge School concerts --
which benefit a school for children with special needs -- have
traditionally featured stripped-down performances by some of rock's
biggest names.
Past performers include Bruce Springsteen, the Who, Paul McCartney,
Elton John, David Bowie and Pearl Jam. Several of these acts may
return next year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the concerts,
sources say.
This year's shows will be held Oct. 29-30, at the Shoreline
Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., with a lineup to be announced.
Date: Wed, 13 July 2005 21:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Farmaid 2005 Hits Chicago
From Next Issue of Rolling Stone
Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will head to
Chicago this year for Farm Aid. The twentieth-anniversary concert, to be
held at the Tweeter Center on September 18th, will wrap a weeklong series of
events, including club shows and a film festival, in the city to benefit
American farmers.
"It's good to be back in Illinois where it all started," Nelson said Monday
at a press conference at Chicago's Grant Park. "This state is showing how
good food can connect places like Champaign and Chicago. It inspires us to
think about family farmers every day. I'm looking forward to playing on the
Farm Aid stage, playing music with my friends."
Farm Aid, which began in Champaign in 1985, was the brainchild of Bob Dylan
and spearheaded by Nelson and Mellencamp. The concerts have raised $27
million for family-owned American farms.
Tickets to this year's show go on sale July 30th. More performers will be
announced in the coming weeks.
Date: Wed, 29 June 2005 11:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: lots of people
Topic: Musician Neil Young added to Live 8 concert in Canada
AP-Live 8-Neil Young Musician Neil Young added to Live 8 concert in Canada
TORONTO (AP) ---- Musician Neil Young has been added to the lineup of the Canadian version of the Live 8 concert.
It's Young's first public performance since he suffered a brain aneurysm in April.
Young will close the concert, which will be held in Barrie, Ontario, north of Toronto.
Besides that show, Live 8 concerts will be staged Saturday in Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris, London, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Moscow.
Musician Bob Geldof organized the shows to draw attention to poverty in Africa.
Date: Fri, 24 June 2005 17:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neil's next performance
NEIL YOUNG will perform -- for the first time since suffering a brain
aneurysm -- at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium August 15th to 19th. The
five-night stand will be taped for the performance DVD Young is working on
with filmmaker JONATHAN DEMME
Date: Fri, 24 June 2005 17:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Mark Nielsen
Topic: Bridge School 2005
The Bridge School concert dates have been released. October 29 and 30
Date: Wed, 15 June 2005 20:30 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Aad H
Topic: Neil Young special
In your bookstore is now available a Q/MOJO special about Neil Young. It's 148 pages of Neil.
It has reviews of all the albums, lots of articles about Neil and a article about CSN&Y. Also a storys about Buffalo Springfield and
lots and lots of pictures.
More info is available at http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.page&fixture_page=116524&resource=116524
Date: Tue, 14 June 2005 4:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Jeff Daignault
Topic: Scott Young passed away
Scott Young, 87
Monday, June 13, 2005 Updated at 9:15 PM EDT
Canadian Press
Peterborough, Ont. — Canadian journalist and author Scott Young has died at the age of 87.
Mr. Young — father of pop music icon Neil Young — died Sunday in Kingston, Ont.
Full story
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 8:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Bad New Beat
Topic: Neil Young guest performance
05-16-2005, The Joint, Los Angeles, California
guests w/ Jack Tempchin and the Usual Suspects
1. Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It
2. The Rover
3. Up To My Neck
4. Jumping Jack Flash
5. Powderfinger
6. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
7. Just Like Me
8. I Wanna Be Sedated
9. Happy
10. Down By The River
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Got Me Rocking
13. Down Payment Blues
Jack Tempchin and the Usual Suspects:
Waddy Wachtel (Keith Richards' X-Pensive Winos and Stevie Nicks' band)
Phil Jones (from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on drums)
Rick the bass player (from Neil Young's band)
Bernard Fowler (vocals for the Rolling Stones)
Guests:
Jason Seday?
Keith Allison (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
Neil Young
"Down By The River" runs in excess of 30 minutes and Neil's really working
Waddy's black Les Paul..."
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 8:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Bad New Beat
Topic: ASCAP
Comes a time for a tux; Surprise -- Neil Young turns up to accept the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Founders Award.
Randy Lewis
18 May 2005
Los Angeles Times
If an elite black-tie awards dinner in Beverly Hills isn't No. 1 on the
list of Neil Young's Least Favorite Hangouts, it'd be a lock for the Top 5.
Yet there was the elusive, unpredictable rocker Monday at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel among 800 music industry heavyweights -- guest of honor, no
less, at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' annual
pop music awards.
After stepping off the red carpet, pausing while a battery of photographers
snapped shots, Young, beer in hand, cracked that enigmatic half-smile and
conceded that he doesn't do this sort of thing much.
Who'd expect anything less from a key voice of the '60s counterculture, a
man known for flouting convention routinely through a twisting, turning
career, who rarely turns up at high-end industry parties -- and when he
does it's often in a flannel shirt and well-worn jeans?
In 1997, Young boycotted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards when he was
inducted as a member of Buffalo Springfield because he didn't think the
ceremony should be televised.
"I decline to take part in this TV presentation and be trotted out like
some cheap awards show," he said then. "There are already too many of these."
On Monday, however, he arrived for the "creative black-tie" event in a
sharp, Westernized black tux, black shirt and striking black-and-silver
bolo tie. He may have left the flannel and denim at home on his remote
Northern California ranch, but he brought his sense of humor.
Accepting ASCAP's highest songwriting honor, the Founders Award, Young
gazed into an idealized future and told the 800 onlookers: "I guess my
mission will be to boldly go where no hippie has gone before."
Because ASCAP's event recognizes songwriters rather than performers or
record sales, it has special meaning for many.
"That's why I'm here," the 59-year-old Canadian said.
Still, it's anybody's guess how seriously one of pop music's most mercurial
artists would look on an event that honored Joni Mitchell and Ashlee
Simpson on the same night.
Young, however, said "I'm speechless" at joining such previous winners as
Mitchell, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney.
(BMI, the other major U.S. performing rights group, was scheduled to give
its top award the next night to Paul Simon.)
Later, Young was anything but, extemporizing a six-minute acceptance speech
that started with a long, heartfelt tribute to his wife, Pegi, for sticking
through each of his careening career twists and turns during their 27-year
marriage.
"A lot of relationships have gone down the tubes at the hands of the muse,"
he said, looking toward the table where Pegi sat with their children, Amber
and Ben, as well as Neil's older son, Zeke, with actress Carrie Snodgress.
He acknowledged the other honorees, many of them R&B and hip-hop artists
including Usher, OutKast's Big Boi and producer-writer-rapper Jermaine
Dupri, whose work ranked among 2004's most performed songs by ASCAP members.
"I can't rap," Young said wryly. "I think I've done everything else, so if
I start to do that, just shoot me," he quipped. He quickly added, "But I
love good rap. And most things I like do turn up in some form, so keep your
eyes peeled."
Indeed, if there's been a constant through his storied career it would be
the element of surprise. That facet of Young's personality figured into
salutary comments from music industry veteran Mo Ostin, head of Warner
Bros. Records during the majority of Young's years with the company's
Reprise label.
Ostin referred to "the honor of working with, and for, Neil Young," noting
that when Young had produced hits such as "Heart of Gold" "it was a very
profitable honor.... It hasn't always been an easy honor" and outlined some
of the requests Young made of label executives over the years, including
one that they print the covers for his 1972 "Harvest" album on
biodegradable paper.
Ostin outlined how Young typically came to the label's offices when he'd
finished recording a new album to play it for execs and invite their comments.
"We'd tell him what we thought," Ostin said, "and then Neil would decide
whether he wanted to make any changes."
Young, who exhibited no ill effects of his recent treatment for a brain
aneurysm, made no attempt to explain why he, more than virtually any other
rocker born of the '60s, has remained hip among succeeding generations of
listeners and musicians.
"I've been at the top and I've been at the bottom," Young said, "I've been
a has-been. But I just do what I do and every few years things come back
around again."
Echoing that theme of deja vu, Young said, "Fortunately, tomorrow I'll be
going in to play my new record for my label."
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 8:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: ASCAP
Young Honored in L.A.
Rocker makes first public appearance since surgery at ASCAP awards
Making his first public appearance since his April surgery for a brain
aneurysm, Neil Young received the Founders Award, given to "pioneering
songwriters," at ASCAP's twenty-second-annual Pop Music Awards Monday in Los
Angeles.
Folk duo the Indigo Girls performed a rousing acoustic rendition of Young's
"Down by the River," and a video with clips stretching from black-and-white
footage of Buffalo Springfield to the recent concept album/movie Greendale
celebrated Young's music. Mo Ostin, the former head of Warner Bros. Records
and the man who gave Young his first solo recording contract, then took the
stage to introduce the veteran rocker.
"There is only one Neil Young," said Ostin, recounting their turbulent but
fruitful collaboration. "Neil's first album for Reprise had a great song,
'The Loner.' Looking back, it defines Neil: a man willing to stand alone. He
follows his own brilliant -- and shaky -- muse."
Young, who had been seated at a table with his wife and son, took the stage
and thanked Ostin, ASCAP president and chair Marilyn Bergman. After a
meandering start -- "I should have written something down!" -- Young told
the crowd, "It's great to be able to do what you want to do." Perhaps
acknowledging the evening's other honorees, including OutKast, Young added,
"I can't get up and rap. If I do that, I think you'll get up and shoot me.
My mission now is to go where no hippie has gone before. And tomorrow, I go
back to Reprise and give them another record." Young has been at work on his
next album in Nashville, with longtime collaborators keyboardist Spooner
Oldham, guitarist Ben Keith and drummer Carl Himmel.
From Rolling Stone (next issue)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 8:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Bad New Beat
Topic: ASCAP
ASCAP honors Neil Young, whose musical legacy
will continue to rock the free world and enrich generations to come.
Music visionary Neil Young is like one of the "Four Strong Winds" in fellow
Canadian Ian Tyson's classic song, so memorably covered by Neil in 1978 -
one of "those things that don't change, come what may." While Young's music
changes and evolves constantly, his impact as a songwriter, performer,
guitarist and recording artist remains as forceful as ever, even as his
career approaches the 40-year mark. Prolific, unpredictable, idiosyncratic,
uncompromising, provocative, vital and timeless are all terms that apply to
Young's incredible artistic output.
Full Story
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 23:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Bad News Beat
Topic: Nashville concert film
Australia's The Age reports:
[Jonathon Demme's] planning another concert film with Young, scheduled to
begin filming in the northern summer at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville.
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 23:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Bad News Beat
Topic: Neil Young Will Receive Top Honors On May 16th
Pop / Rock (2005-05-11)
Neil Young & Jermaine Dupri Will Receive Top Honors On May 16th At The
ASCAP Pop Music Awards
LOS ANGELES (ASCAP) - Neil Young will be receiving top honors at the Pop
Music Awards gala in May. Young will be presented with the ASCAP
Founders Award, which is one of the most distinguished honors that the
Society bestows, paying tribute to pioneering songwriters who have made
exceptional contributions to music.
Neil Young joins this select group of songwriters and composers which
includes Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Elvis Costello, Quincy Jones, Jerry
Leiber & Mike Stoller, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Smokey Robinson,
Steely Dan, James Taylor, Tom Waits, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few.
In receiving the ASCAP Golden Note Award, a prestigious honor that the
Society bestows on its members, Jermaine Dupri joins a select group of
songwriters and composers that includes such diverse songwriters as
Jay-Z, Garth Brooks, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, José Feliciano, Alan Jackson,
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Elton John, Tom Petty and Andre Previn.
Attending this evening is Neil Young, Jermaine Dupri as well as Usher,
Dashboard Confessional, Clay Aiken, Indigo Girls, Lucinda Williams,
Twista, Big Boi of Outkast, Graham Edwards, Scott Storch, Ahmet Ertegun,
Mo Ostin, Lauren Christy, Scott Spock, J-Kwon, Rick Nowels, Sean Paul,
Remy-Ma, John Shanks, Ashford & Simpson, and more.
WHAT: The 22nd Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards
WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2005, Buffet 6 PM
WHERE: The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Francesco
Topic: Neil Young awarded
The Environmental Protection Agency honored 11 Bay Area residents, including a Moraga high school student, rock star Neil Young,
and a Santa Rosa police detective, for their efforts in protecting and preserving the environment at the Seventh Annual
Environmental Awards Ceremony Thursday.
Hillsborough resident Neil Young, the musician behind such hits as "After the Gold Rush,'' was honored for using alternative fuels
like biodiesel and vegetable oil to power buses and trucks carrying his equipment during a month-long tour, the EPA reported.
Young's goal was to prove that it was possible to deliver goods anywhere in North America without relying on foreign fuel.
Full story
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Cornell
Topic: Neil Young news from Astrid Young's site
From Astrid Young's site.
I know you all know about my brother's mishap, and many have been sending their sincere best wishes,
and we all thank you with love. He's feeling good, has everything under control, and is back in the saddle,
having returned to Nashville to continue working on his new record. Sounds like it's going to be exciting:
Spooner Oldham, Ben Keith, Carl Himmel, kind of reminiscent of Harvest Moon, eh? Neil's message to everyone:
watch your blood pressure! (He even sent our brother Bob a blood pressure machine so he could keep on top of it!)
Good luck, Neil, it's going to be the best record ever! Of course, i wish I was there, but I am very busy with
my own brand of karmic healing right now.
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 2100:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Peter van der Heide
Topic: Neil Young thanks fans
http://www.neilyoung.com/dearfriends.html
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 21:40:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Young Tried to get to Junos
Angela Pacienza
The Canadian Press
03 April 2005, Calgary Herald
Neil Young fully expected to recover in time to attend Sunday's Junos
despite having brain surgery late last month(they obviously meant week not
month!cs), says his longtime friend and
fellow musician Randy Bachman.
Bachman, who spoke to Young on the telephone Friday, said the rock legend
went for a walk following Tuesday's operation in New York, but "had
something go wrong. They had to rush him back into the hospital."
But Young has since left the hospital and was staying in a New York hotel,
Bachman added.
He said, 'I'm OK. I could probably come and be carried on stage and play but
I don't want anybody to feel sorry for me,' " Bachman said late Friday after
performing at one of many Juno parties across the city.
Young learned he had a brain aneurysm two weeks ago and would need surgery
to correct the dangerous, sometimes fatal, clot. He purposely scheduled it
early in the week thinking he'd be back on his feet quickly, said Bachman,
who's been friends with Young since the two were teens.
The 59-year-old Young even had his gear sent to Winnipeg.
The big message, said Brunton, is that Young is going to be OK.
"He's the native son and it looks like he's going to get through this," he
said.
Young asked for a "rain check" from both Winnipeg and the Junos.
Bachman said his friend fully intends to visit the city soon and is likely
to perform at next year's Junos in Halifax.
"I want to come back," Young said through Bachman. "I owe Winnipeg a gig and
I owe the Junos a gig."
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2005 10:25:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Many
Topic: Neil Young treated for 'dangerous' aneurysm
Friday, April 1, 2005
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rocker Neil Young was treated for a "dangerous brain aneurysm" this week but is expected to make a full recovery, his agent said Friday.
Young underwent "minimally invasive neuroradiology" treatment Tuesday at a New York hospital and remains hospitalized.
"The procedure corrected the problem and has been characterized as a complete success with a total recovery. And resumption of normal activities by the 59-year-old rock legend is predicted for the near future," agent Bob Merlis said in a statement.
Young began experiencing problems in New York nearly three weeks ago, on March 14, after he performed with The Pretenders at their induction ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Later that night, he experienced blurred vision.
A neurologist gave Young an MRI scan, discovered the aneurysm and scheduled the procedure for this week. Young traveled to Nashville for recording work before returning to New York for the procedure.
"He is now resting comfortably and has made a full recovery, but we strongly recommend that he not travel for several days," said Dr. Pierre Gobin with the New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Young had to cancel his performance Sunday at the Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys.
"I'm really disappointed that I won't be able to make it to Winnipeg for the Junos as I had hoped. I grew up there and was really looking forward to the show as well as spending some time with my old friends and family," Young said in a written statement.
An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel, much like a bulge on an over-inflated inner tube, and can be fatal if it ruptures, causing a hemorrhagic stroke.
During minimally invasive neuroradiology procedures, doctors insert a catheter through the groin and into the brain, and small coils are used to clear up the bulge.
Source:www.cnn.com
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:59:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Buffalo Springfield Reunion? Neil's call
These days he's better known as Pastor Richie than one of the co-founders
of seminal rock acts Buffalo Springfield and Poco. But Richie Furay, who's
called Boulder home since 1971, is slowly dipping his toes back into the
world of mainstream music.
Observers thought the '60s folk-rock combo might reform a few years ago,
when mercurial Neil Young released a wistful reminiscence, "Buffalo
Springfield Again," on his Silver and Gold album, and the band worked
together on a career-spanning box set. But it wasn't to be and now can't
be, since original Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer died last year.
"I actually was talking to Neil several weeks ago, and he was thinking maybe
he, Stephen (Stills) and I could go out and do a small, intimate thing of
some sort," Furay says. "But that'll be his call, when he's ready. It's
funny, because the Springfield was really Stephen's band at the time, but
Neil pretty much calls the shots on that one now."
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Francesco
Topic: video clip PRETENDERS with Neil Young
In this website there are some video clips with U2 + PRETENDERS with Neil Young
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/hall_of_fame_2005/series.jhtml
Click on VIDEO
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: bh
Topic: ASCAP to Honor Neil
ASCAP to Honor Neil Young at 22nd Annual Pop Music Awards on May 16th in
Los Angeles
18 March 2005
12:55 GMT
Business Wire
English
(c) 2005 Business Wire. All Rights Reserved.
NEW YORK - (BUSINESS WIRE) - March 18, 2005 - The American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced today that it will
honor Neil Young with the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award during the 22nd
Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards gala. The invitation-only awards dinner will
take place on May 16th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles,
California. The event will also honor the songwriters and publishers of
ASCAP's most performed songs of 2004.
The ASCAP Founders Award is one of the most distinguished honors that the
Society bestows, paying tribute to pioneering songwriters who have made
exceptional contributions to music. Neil Young joins this select group of
songwriters and composers which includes Elvis Costello, James Taylor, Joni
Mitchell, Steely Dan, Paul McCartney, Tom Waits, Quincy Jones, Burt
Bacharach & Hal David, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, and Stevie Wonder, to
name a few.
With nearly fifty albums to his credit, Neil Young has proved to be one of
the most prominent and influential artists of his time. Throughout his
career, Neil Young has touched on many different genres of music and vocal
styles. From folk and country to rock, from his days with Buffalo
Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and throughout his solo career
and his many collaborations, Young has delivered his prolific songwriting
talents and unique sound to decades of discerning music listeners. He
continues to be a major voice and influence in music today.
A 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Neil Young has been writing,
recording and performing songs for more than 30 years creating such hits as
"Heart of Gold," "Cinnamon Girl," "Hey Hey, My My," "Ohio," "Down by the
River," "Harvest Moon" and "Rockin in the Free World."
"Neil's music has sent powerful messages to generations and his work is as
meaningful today as it was when his career began in the '60's," quotes
ASCAP President & Chairman, Marilyn Bergman. "How proud we are to celebrate
Neil Young's career at our Pop Music Awards gala by presenting him with the
ASCAP Founders Award."
The 2005 Pop Music Awards will also honor the songwriters and publishers of
ASCAP's most performed songs of 2004. Special awards will be given to
"Songwriter of the Year," "Song of the Year," "Publisher of the Year" in
addition to the presentation of the "College Vanguard Award," which
recognizes the impact of new and developing musical genres that help shape
the future of American music and which gain early popularity on college radio.
About ASCAP
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading Performing Rights
Organization in the U.S., representing the world's largest repertory which
totals over 8 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre
from more than 200,000 composer, lyricist and music publisher members.
Additionally, ASCAP represents the works in the repertories of 70
affiliated foreign performing rights organizations created by many thousand
affiliated international members. ASCAP is committed to protecting the
rights of its members by licensing and collecting royalties for the public
performance of their copyrighted works, and then distributing these fees to
the Society's members based on performances. Unlike the other American
Performing Rights Organizations, ASCAP's Board of Directors is made up
solely of writers and publishers, elected by the membership every two years.
Bobbi Marcus Public Relations & Events, Inc. Bobbi Marcus, 310-889-9200
bmarcuspr@aol.com or ASCAP Pauline Stack, 212-621-6278 pstack@ascap.com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Rolling Stone Mag Interprets Hall of Fame Plus....
Neil Young offered high praise for New Wave rockers the Pretenders,
explaining that he and Crazy Horse mined the band's debut album for ideas in
the early Eighties. "They went through all the heartache that rock & roll is
built on. They lost two key members and they never gave up," said Young,
referring to the deaths of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete
Farndon. Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and the band's current lineup -- which
includes founding drummer Martin Chambers -- then blasted through fierce,
punked-up versions of "Message of Love," "My City Was Gone" (with Young
adding squalling lead guitar) and "Precious."
************************
15 March 2005, Newsday
But one of the evening's highest points came when The Pretenders, the
aggressive rock band fronted by Chrissie Hynde, were inducted by the
iconoclastic Neil Young. Hynde invoked the memory of former bandmembers
Jimmy Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon, both of whom died of drug overdoses.
But aside from that, she kept her speech short, extolling the virtues of
basic rock and roll. "All I really have to say about it is, two notes. Boom
boom, boom boom. Never change it."
Hynde and original drummer Martin Chambers played three songs with two
session musicians, beginning with a rough, sloppy version of "Message Of
Love." Young joined the group on "My City Was Gone," using his trademark
choppy style on a solo in the song's midsection, but left to let Hynde take
charge of the sexually charged "Precious." (Hynde even found time to tell an
off-color joke about a farmer and a duck.)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Neil at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 14th
Pretenders, blues legend Buddy Guy, R&B mainstays the O'Jays and Percy
Sledge, Sire Records co-founder Seymour Stein and agent Frank Barsalona were
welcomed into the ranks of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night (March
14) during the 20th annual gala ceremony at New York's Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel.
After an off-the-cuff induction speech from Neil Young, the Pretenders paid
tribute to late members James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon, "without whom
we wouldn't be here," lead singer Chrissie Hynde said. "On the other hand,
without us they might have been here, but that's the way it works in
rock'n'roll."
Hynde told a characteristically off-color joke while drummer Martin Chambers
got ready behind the kit. The group then rocked through "Message of Love," a
sizzling "My City Was Gone" with a surprise guest appearance by Young and
the wiry, sexy "Precious," the leadoff track from its self-titled 1980 debut.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: "Grumpy"
Topic: No CSNY in 2005
I guess it's "official", as it comes from a very reliable source: "No CSNY this
year. Last week Neil replied 'no' to a CSNY Europe summer tour proposal. He's
taking a long hiatus from live concerts for the entire 2005.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: New Book on Neil
Dr. William Echard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and
Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton
University. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. The name of the book is "Neil Young
and the Poetics of Energy." You can advance order it at:
indiana/iupress
or
amazon
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: reporting from Billboard Mag
Along with an impressive slate of inductees, this year's Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame ceremony will boast some impressive star power in the form of Justin
Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Neil
Young, who will present the honorees. The March 14 ceremony at New York's
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel will be filmed by VH1, which will air highlights on a
March 19 special.
Rod Stewart will reportedly induct Percy Sledge, while Young pay tribute to
the Pretenders
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: François
Topic: Neil's new album due to be released
A BMG representative told me a few days ago that they have a new Neil Young
Cd due in April 2005 on the Sanctuary label ! So it seems those rumours of
the Greatest Hits CD being a sell-off of his contract with Reprise were true
(and the poor quality of this Greatest Hits seems to prove he quits Reprise
on a negative note). I could not get more information about the Cd to be
released. I'll try to get some more information in the weeks to come and
I'll share it with you of course.
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: BH
Topic: Neil on new album this summer
JERRY LEE CALLS ON HIS FAMOUS PALS
15 February 2005
World Entertainment News Network
Feb 15, 2005 (WENN via COMTEX) --
Rock 'n' roller JERRY LEE LEWIS is following in late pal RAY CHARLES'
footsteps by bringing his famous friends together for a new album.
The GREAT BALLS OF FIRE singer has invited SIR MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS,
ERIC CLAPTON, TOBY KEITH and NEIL YOUNG to join him on the new project.
The album will be released this summer (05). (KL/DV/GES)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: CS
Topic: Chili Peppers, Neil Young Honor Brian Wilson
Chili Peppers, Neil Young Honor Brian Wilson
The Red Hot Chili Peppers kicked things off with a version of "I Get
Around," while Young dedicated "In My Room" not only to Wilson, but to his
late brothers, Dennis and Carl.
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Buzz Person
Topic: CSNY 2005 Summer tour
I got this from Crosby a minute or two ago...:
"From: David Crosby
To: Buzz Person
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: CSNY Eurotour 2005 ?????
did NOT say that ....said we would like to .....please post"
As I've always said, be weary of what you read in the Press... especially
if it's in a different language... its probably certainly not worth
repeating unless substantiated... will only cause further wild rumors, etc.
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Dolf van Stijgeren
Topic: CSNY 2005 Summer tour
The German 'Tagesspiegel' published an interview with David Crosby
on 6. February 2005 quoting Crosby saying they (CSNY) will play in
the summer.
You can find the German interview here:
http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/06.02.2005/1633386.asp
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: Cathy
Topic: Neil performs at MusiCares dinner
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michelle Branch, the Backstreet Boys and
Guestlove from the Roots are among the artists scheduled to honor Brian
Wilson at the MusiCares dinner and concert Friday at the Palladium in
Hollywood. Jon Lovitz is hosting the event, which will also feature
Barenaked Ladies, Jamie Cullum, Jeff Beck, India.Arie, Darlene Love, Shelby
Lynne, Michael McDonald, Richie Sambora, Neil Young and Earth, Wind & Fire.
... Take Two Interactive, the producer of the wildly popular/socially
reprehensible "Grand Theft Auto" series of video games, has acquired the
rights to publish video games based on FOX's canceled/un-canceled cult
cartoon "Family Guy." It's unclear on which platforms the game will be
available, though it's tentatively scheduled to hit stores in 2006. ...
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:00:00 GMT Evening Coconut
Reporter: John A. Major, Jr.
Topic: Neil performs at The 2005 JUNO Awards
Press release For immediate release Neil Young and The Tragically Hip to Perform
at The 2005 JUNO Awards, Canada’s Music Awards 34th Annual JUNO Awards To Be
Broadcast Sunday, April 3 on CTV TORONTO, January 26, 2005: - The Canadian
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) together with CTV announced today
the first of a long list of stellar acts confirmed to perform at the 2005 JUNO
Awards: The Tragically Hip and Winnipeg’s own rock and roll legend Neil Young.
CTV will broadcast the Awards, live from Winnipeg’s MTS Centre, on Sunday, April
3 at 8 p.m. ET (check local listings). Entertaining audiences for more than four
decades, Neil Young is an international rock and roll icon. His involvement with
some of music’s most influential bands, including Buffalo Springfield, Crazy
Horse and Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, has paved the way for other rock
legends such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The three-time Juno Award winner and
member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame was twice inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame; in 1995 as a solo artist and again in 1997 as a member of
Buffalo Springfield. Tagged the “godfather of grunge”, Young has made use of
more than his musical talents as a director of three movies, the owner of Vapor
Records and as one of the founders of Farm Aid, to which he remains on their
board of directors. His outstanding contribution to music and the arts
represents the quality of Canadian talent. The 2005 Canadian Music Hall of Fame
inductees, The Tragically Hip bring their legendary live experience to the JUNO
stage. Throughout a career that has spanned over two decades, The Hip, including
Rob Baker, Gordon Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair, have
achieved mass popularity and critical acclaim, winning eleven JUNO Awards and
selling over 6 million albums in Canada alone. In 2004, The Tragically Hip
delivered another feverish compilation with In Between Evolution. Hosted by
Canadian television star Brent Butt, The 2005 JUNO Awards, Canada’s Music
Awards, will be broadcast for its fourth year on CTV, Sunday, April 3 from the
MTS Centre in Winnipeg, MB. In April 2004, 1.51 million viewers made The 2004
JUNO Awards the most watched show in Canada on the night of its broadcast. In
all, more than five million Canadians tuned in to watch some part of the
broadcast. More on Page /2…
Sponsors for The 2005 JUNO Awards include FACTOR and the Government of Canada
through the Department of Canadian Heritage’s “Canada Music Fund”, Western
Economic Diversification Canada, the Province of Manitoba and the City of
Winnipeg. Broadcast sponsors for the event are General Motors, Pantene Pro-V,
Doritos and Nice ‘n Easy. For more information on the 34th annual JUNO Awards,
visit the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) Web site at
www.junoawards.ca. About CARAS: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and
Sciences/L'academie canadienne des arts et des sciences de l'enregistrement
(CARAS) is a not-for-profit organization created to preserve and enhance the
Canadian music and recording industries and to contribute toward higher artistic
and industry standards. The main focus of CARAS is the exploration and
development of opportunities to showcase and promote Canadian artists and music
through television vehicles such as The JUNO Awards. For more information on the
34th annual JUNO Awards, visit the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and
Sciences (CARAS) Web site at www.junoawards.ca. The 2005 JUNO Awards will air
live on CTV, on Sunday, April 3, 2005. About CTV: CTV, Canada’s largest private
broadcaster, offers a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and
entertainment programming. It boasts the number-one national newscast, CTV News
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