Neil Young and Promise of the Real

Neil Young teams with Lukas and Micah Nelson's band Promise of the Real for a new quasi-live album. Earth features live performances of songs from 2015 drawing on Young's albums including The Monsanto Years, Ragged Glory, and After the Gold Rush.  The live tracks feature musical overdubs, as well as "sounds of the earth" (car horns, insect noises, and sounds from bears, birds, crickets, bees, horses, cows, frogs, etc.). Young describes it as "Ninety-eight uninterrupted minutes long, EARTH flows as a collection of 13 songs from throughout my life, songs I have written about living here on our planet together.  Our animal kingdom is well represented in the audience as well, and the animals, insects, birds, and mammals actually take over the performances of the songs at times."  The 28-minute "Love and Only Love" stretches the song to epic proportions.  Suffice to say Earth is a live album unlike any other.  Available on CD and LP.