Neil Young has announced his first archival release of 2020, revealing that the long-unreleased Homegrown will finally see the light of day.
Back in late 1974, Neil Young has just released his soon-to-be classic record On The Beach, and was already gearing up to look ahead to the future.
While his next record would ultimately be the classic Tonight’s The Night in 1975, a three-month period of recording saw Young pick up an acoustic guitar and lay down the tracks that would make up Homegrown.
Working with big names like Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson, and more, the project would ultimately go unreleased, with a number of these songs surfacing on later records (including ‘Love Is A Rose’), or being re-recorded and reused for different projects.
However, this month’s revelation that Neil Young is gearing up to release a litany of unreleased material is beginning to pay off, with the rocker revealing that Homegrown would be his first archival release of 2020.
Taking to his Archives website, Neil Young shared a video of producer and engineer John Hanlon mastering the record, explaining that the decision to use an “all analog chain” for the process was one that comes from a decision to work on records in “the way we made them sound great”
“We were told that this was impossible now, the Homegrown tapes were too damaged to use; we had to use Digital,” Young explained. “We didn’t agree. We did not accept. We painstakingly restored the analog masters of Homegrown.
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“Homegrown will be our first release in 2020, sounding great in vinyl—as it was meant to be.. Made in the mid-nineteen seventies!
“A record full of love lost and explorations. A record that has been hidden for decades. Too personal and revealing to expose in the freshness of those times.”
Describing the record as the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes A Time,” it remains to be seen just when we’ll get a chance to hear this famously unreleased record, though it seems that we won’t have to wait that long.
Likewise, there’s no word yet as to what other unreleased material is on the cards for 2020, though we can only assume that hardcore fans are hoping the legendary Chrome Dreams is amongst the list of forthcoming titles.
Check out ‘Love Is A Rose’ by Neil Young:
