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SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 30 - 4. HARVEST MOON (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 5th August 2020
It's a love song about growing old. Neil Young's Harvest Moon released in 1992 is a nod to the 1970s country rock loved by music blogger Alyson Young. It's also a grown up song about love says singer-songwriter Ricky Ross. How do you make the magic last and how do you keep love alive? People tell their stories about what the song means to them: jazz singer Maureen Washington danced to the song with her late husband. Amanda Legere played it to her premature baby daughter when she went to see her in the ICU. She knows the baby responded to that song. Mary Divine and her husband were serenaded on their wedding anniversary during lockdown. The whole neighbourhood came out to watch a teenage neighbour play Harvest Moon for them. Margy Waller drove to work at the White House on the final days of Bill Clinton's Presidency listening to Harvest Moon because she needed to cry. For her it's a song about loss. She is still touched by it today during the pandemic in what she describes as another period of great loss.
Versions include Harvest Moon by:
Neil Young
Cassandra Wilson
Maureen Washington
Nils Lofgren
Neil Young Unplugged
Produced by Maggie Ayre
Alyson's music blog is Jukeboxtimemachine.com
Ricky Ross presents Another Country on BBC Radio Scotland.
Maureen Washington is a jazz singer based in British Columbia.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 8th June 2012
In a rare extended interview with John Wilson, the Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest disc, a selection of traditional songs, recorded with the uninhibited rock band Crazy Horse.
The album includes a version of God Save The Queen, the anthem Young recalls singing as a schoolboy in Canada.
Young, who topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic 40 years ago with his LP Harvest, also reflects on the role of the protest song in the age of the TV talent show, and considers his own instinctive approach to music-making, and his reluctance to become a crowd-pleaser.
Producer John Goudie.
NEIL YOUNG - LIVE PHOENIX FESTIVAL 1996 (320kbs/129mb/57mins)
BBC 6 Music Dream Ticket broadcast: 13th November 2002. Original recording 19th July 1996
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Powderfinger
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Big Time
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Slip Away
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Music Arcade
NEIL YOUNG - LIVE 1970-1997 (320kbs/364mb/2hrs39mins)
17th September 2012
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [Live At The Fillmore East 1970]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown [Live At The Fillmore East 1970]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl In The Sand [Live At The Fillmore East 1970]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - The Loner [Live Rust]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Lotta Love [Live Rust]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) [Live Rust]
Neil Young - Mr Soul [Cow Palace 1986]
Neil Young - When You Dance, I Can Really Love [Cow Palace 1986]
Neil Young - Down By The River [Cow Palace 1986]
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold [Cow Palace 1986]
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done [Cow Palace 1986]
Neil Young & The Bluenotes - This Note's For You [Lucky Thirteen]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Welfare Mothers [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cinnamon Girl [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Mansion On The Hill [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - F_!#in' Up [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez The Killer [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Powderfinger [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Love And Only Love [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rockin' In The Free World [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Like A Hurricane [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Farmer John [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Tonight's The Night [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Roll Another Number [Weld]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Slip Away [Year Of The Horse]
