Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fats, and Neil Younger has launched a 107-minute festive playlist. The 27-song choice is accompanied by footage of flaming logs in a hearth, permitting followers to benefit from the music with out burning any fossil fuels, one thing the ecologically-minded Younger absolutely had in thoughts.
The playlist consists of a number of Neil Younger classics, together with Coronary heart Of Gold, Previous Man and Harvest Moon, in addition to 9 tracks from Seven Gates: A Christmas Album, the 1994 assortment by longtime collaborator Ben Keith (later rereleased as Xmas At The Ranch), which featured Younger, Johnny Money, J.J. Cale and others.
The playlist additionally consists of two variations of Mozart’s Greensleeves, one recorded solo at Damaged Arrow Ranch in 1974, and the opposite for Seven Gates, with Younger accompanied by a 27-member boys choir. The total tracklist is beneath.
Neil Younger: Fire Playlist
Greensleeves (Archives Quantity II: 1972–1976)
Winterlong (Early Daze)
Hitchhiker (Hitchhiker)
Xmas Time’s A Comin’ (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Winter Winds (Archives Quantity III: 1976–1987)
Coronary heart of Gold (Harvest)
Silver Bells (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
When God Made Me (Prairie Wind)
Ave Maria (Xmas At The Ranch)
Harvest Moon (Harvest Moon)
Les Trois Cloches (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Blue Xmas (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Previous Man (Harvest)
It Got here Upon A Midnight Clear (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Star of Bethlehem (American Stars & Bars)
Little Drummer Boy (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Lotta Love (Comes A Time)
Dreamin Man (Harvest Moon)
After the Gold Rush (After The Gold Rush)
Greensleeves (Xmas At The Ranch)
Considered one of These Days (Harvest Moon)
Thrasher (Vol. 3, Boarding Home)
Harvest (Harvest)
Away within the Manger (Seven Gates: A Christmas Album)
Love Is a Rose (Homegrown)
Unknown Legend (Harvest Moon)
This Previous Home (Recorded reside at Farm Support 1985 with the Worldwide Harvesters)