Neil Young Announces First Tour Since 2019
Neil Young has announced a tour — his first since 2019. The news comes after Young told paid subscribers of Neil Young Archives earlier this week that the solo acoustic shows will feature songs that he’s never performed live before. Find the tour dates, featuring special guest Chris Pierce, below.
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Young has performed one-off shows recently, including a rally for old-growth trees and at a Willie Nelson tribute show. In 2021 and 2022, he pulled out of Farm Aid due to concerns over the pandemic. “I am not ready for that yet. I don’t think it is safe in the pandemic,” he wrote, adding, “I miss it very much.”
“I don’t want to come back and do the same songs again,” Young said earlier in the week. “I’ll feel like I was on some sort of carnival ride. I’d rather be doing these others songs I haven’t done…I won’t have to compare how I’m doing Heart of Gold to [how I played it in] 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020…”
Young told fans that has prepared a setlist of roughly 15 rarities comprised of songs that he says “apply to my life right now,” including the 1982 Trans outtake If You Got Love, Prime Of Life from 1994’s Sleeps With Angels, and Song X from his 1995 Pearl Jam collaboration Mirror Ball.
“They’re not new songs,” he said. “They’re old songs. But I wake up with them in my head every morning. They are songs that apply to my life right now and apply to everyone’s lives in this era that we’re in. Some of them were written 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago, but never really played live.”
Neil Young solo tour dates:
July 2023
1 Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford
2 Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford
4 Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford
5 Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford
7 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
8 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre
11 San Diego, CA – The Shell
13 Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
15 Berkeley, CA – The Greek
17 Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
18 Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
20 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
23 Napa, CA – Oxbow RiverStage