Neil Young - Homegrown

Homegrown is the 40th studio album by Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young, released in June 2020 via Reprise Records.

Neil Young puts it best: "This album is the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time".

Recorded between June 1974 and January 1975, Homegrown was intended to come out in 1975 before Neil cancelled the release, and Tonight’s The Night (1975) was released instead. The album has remained unreleased until now, achieving a legendary status among Neil Young fans in the process.

The album is made up of twelve Neil Young songs, of which seven are previously unreleased: "Separate Ways," "Try," "Mexico," "Kansas," We Don't Smoke It No More," "Vacancy" and "Florida" (a spoken word narration).

Also included are the first recordings of "Love Is A Rose," "Homegrown," "White Line, "Little Wing," and "Star Of Bethlehem"; different versions of which would all later appear on other Neil Young albums.

Neil plays solo on some tracks (guitar, piano and harmonica), and is joined by a band of friends on other tracks, including Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Karl T Himmel, Tim Drummond, Emmylou Harris and Robbie Robertson.

Recorded in analogue, and mastered from the original master tapes, this long-lost album is a wonderful addition to Neil's incomparable catalogue.

Homegrown has been met with universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 88, based on 17 reviews.

This album is the 2020 Record Store Day limited edition on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve and cover art print insert, pressed in Europe via Reprise Records.