{"id":790979,"date":"2026-07-09T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:25:08","slug":"hear-two-songs-neil-young-wrote-as-a-teenager-slated-for-his-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790979\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Two Songs Neil Young Wrote as a Teenager Slated for His New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBack in April, Neil Young<\/a> revealed that his upcoming album Second Song<\/a> will feature new recordings of at least a couple of songs he wrote as a teenager in the mid-Sixties, while still gigging around Canada with his high-school band the Squires. But he didn\u2019t share their titles until a Zoom Q&A on July 8 with Patron-level subscribers of the Neil Young Archives.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first one is \u201cI\u2019ll Love You Forever,\u201d which he recorded with the Squires at the radio station CJLX in Fort William, Ontario, on Nov. 23, 1964. \u201cA DJ on the radio station there was looking to get me a record, and get a record on the air since I never had a record,\u201d Young said on the Zoom. \u201cSo we recorded it, and we finished it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tender love ballad, featuring Ken Koblun on bass and Bill Edmondson on drums, was unreleased until 2009 when it appeared on the first disc of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1: 1963\u20131972 box set. \u201cI redid it, I sang it again,\u201d Young said on the Zoom, referring to the recent Second Song recording sessions with the Chrome Hearts. \u201cWe used the original recording, played it for the guys once, so they heard the song, and then we put that one down. It felt really good. The Chrome Hearts sounded great playing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNext up was \u201cCasting Me Away From You,\u201d which was recorded Oct. 15, 1965, in the Toronto home of Young\u2019s close friend Comrie Smith, just as the Squires were coming to an end. \u201cComrie Smith was a high-school buddy of mine,\u201d Young said on the Zoom.\u201d We did it in his attic. I had some kind of recording of that. I never forgot the song. It was already in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCasting Me Away From You\u201d was ringing around Young\u2019s head in 1968 when he recorded the instrumental track \u201cThe Emperor of Wyoming,\u201d which kicks off his self-titled debut LP. The two songs share a melody. He also used the line \u201cwe found things to do in stormy weather\u201d on 1976\u2019s \u201cLong May You Run.\u201d The original recording of \u201cCasting Me Away From You\u201d wasn\u2019t heard by the public until Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 was released in 2009.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEarlier in the Zoom, Young said that many of the new songs on Second Song are \u201cquite long\u201d because they have several verses, not because of extended instrumental passages. \u201cThey\u2019re just a rambling set of songs that all came to me while I was in Colorado around the turn of the year,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I came back here to Malibu and recorded them all, and it went great. I had five songs. It went so fast that we finished recording four of them the first day. Then we recorded one more song the next day. And then we didn\u2019t have any more songs. There we are two days into it, and we\u2019ve got seven days ready to go. I said to the guys, \u2018Well, let me think, and I\u2019ll see if there\u2019s any other songs that come to me, just from anywhere, and that I haven\u2019t recorded, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u2019 And so I went looking in the archives, way back in the Sixties.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThose two old songs, they just seemed to fit with the new ones,\u201d Young continued. \u201cThere 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. That\u2019s what this album is about. It\u2019s about the new songs vs the old songs. The old songs offer some sort of reflection and juxtaposition or something. They all seem to fit together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tYoung originally planned on touring Europe this summer with special guest Elvis Costello, but he pulled the dates in February.<\/a> \u201cEverything is OK,\u201d he told fans. \u201cJust needed a break. Listening to my body.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis only live appearance of the year took place May 22 when he played a surprise four-song acoustic set at David Suzuki\u2019s 90th birthday concert in Vancouver.<\/a> He\u2019s scheduled to perform at Farm Aid<\/a> on Sept. 26 at the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia. \u201cI\u2019m probably going to play a show or so, maybe in front of Farm Aid to warm up, Young said on the Zoom, \u201cand that\u2019ll be enough.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in April, Neil Young revealed that his upcoming album Second Song will feature new recordings of at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,30305],"class_list":["post-790979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-neil-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790979","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=790979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}