{"id":146274,"date":"2025-09-15T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:42:07","slug":"watch-neil-young-play-sail-away-for-the-first-time-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146274\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Neil Young Play ‘Sail Away’ for the First Time in 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNeil Young<\/a> and the Chrome Hearts played the penultimate show of their summer tour Friday evening at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Midway through the set, Young broke out the Rust Never Sleep deep cut \u201cSail Away\u201d for the first time since Willie Nelson\u2019s 80th anniversary concert in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSail Away\u201d was first heard by the public on Aug. 1, 1977, when the Ducks \u2014 a short-lived band that included Young and Moby Grape\u2019s Bob Mosley \u2014 played at the Steamship in Santa Cruz, California. It remained in their repertoire throughout the rest of the summer, and Young recorded it on Sept. 12, 1977, at Triad Recording Studios in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A couple of months later, bassist Joe Osborn, drummer Karl Himmel,<\/a> and background singer Nicolette Larson<\/a> overdubbed additional parts at Woodland Studios in Nashville.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe solo rendition of \u201cSail Away\u201d was the opening track on Young\u2019s shelved 1977 LP Oceanside Countryside, which wasn\u2019t officially released until this year. The overdubbed \u201cSail Away\u201d was included on Rust Never Sleeps in 1979. (It was one of two tracks, along with \u201cPocahontas,\u201d that were not recorded at various stops on Young\u2019s 1978 U.S. tour.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSail Away\u201d became a live rarity after the Eighties, popping up only at a couple of benefit gigs in 2009, and Nelson\u2019s 80th birthday show at Nashville\u2019s Third Man Records in 2013. Organist Spooner Oldham previously played it with Young at Farm Aid in 2009, but this was a first for guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick, and drummer Anthony LoGerfo.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Shoreline show also included the tour debut of \u201cVampire Blues.\u201d A couple of days earlier, Young and the Chrome Hearts played a wild show in Bend, Oregon, where they deviated from the usual setlist order and essentially made up the show as they went along. It included a rare double shot of \u201cCowgirl in the Sand\u201d into \u201cDown by the River.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tour ends Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. This Saturday, they\u2019ll appear at Farm Aid 40 in Minneapolis. A labor dispute nearly derailed the entire event, but the matter has been resolved. Young\u2019s only show on the calendar after Farm Aid is Harvest Moon \u2014 A Gather in Lake Hughes, California, on Oct. 25. It\u2019s a benefit for the Painted Turtle and the Bridge School. He\u2019ll be sharing the bill with Beck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts played the penultimate show of their summer tour Friday evening at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,30305],"class_list":{"0":"post-146274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-neil-young"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}