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Neil Young wrote I’ll Love You Forever and then recorded it in 1964 with his band, the Squires. In 1965 he followed that up with a recording of Casting Me Away From You. Both songs were not released publicly until the 2009 release of Neil Young Archives Vol. 1: 1963–1972, and now Young has revealed the newly re-recorded tracks will appear on his upcoming album with the Chrome Hearts, Second Song.
In a post on his website, Young wrote about the album process: “The Chrome Hearts and I recorded the five new songs. Four in the first day and one more on the second day. We were then out of songs. We needed more.”
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“The next morning I had a song going through my head and was playing it. I checked it out in the archives and found it was from 1963, unreleased,” he continued. “There were more. I found three others with it…. also unreleased! Three 60-year-old songs and five brand new ones!”
In a July 8 Zoom with fans who subscribe to Neil Young Archives on Patreon, Rolling Stone reported Young said he re-recorded I’ll Love You Forever and Casting Me Away From You because they fit with the new tracks for the album.
“There was no concept. [The album] is a couple of old songs, and lot of new ones. With the length of the new songs, we could have knocked out the old songs and still had an album, for length. But we went ahead and added the two old songs,” he said. “That’s what this album is about. It’s about the new songs versus the old songs. The old songs offer some sort of reflection and juxtaposition or something. They all seem to fit together.”
In June, Young also released a free concert film, Corduroy Plants. The movie was directed by his wife, Darryl Hannah, and chronicles his tour from 2025 with the Chrome Hearts.