Neil Young

Neil Young’s songbook gets two more tribute volumes: “Heart of Gold” Vol. 2 – “Out of the Blue” and Vol. 3 – “Into the Black” arrive on 6th November, benefiting The Bridge School. King Princess covers “Helpless” and Draco Rosa reworks “After the Gold Rush”, leading a cast of more than twenty that includes My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse and Lucinda Williams.

Neil Young’s 1974 Bottom Line concert – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues – is released as part of the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series. Watch the accompanying album trailer.

With a poignant reminder that it’s not only the future of humanity that’s at risk, Neil Young delivers fiery, apocalyptic visions, tempered with hope for a better world. Some people want to hear songs of love, some want to hear about “the corporations hijacking all your rights”: either way, Earth has everything you need.

We have a video premiere today from Americana singer/songwriter Ryan Hobler with a beautiful cover of Neil Young’s Harvest Moon. We featured Ryan last year and he wowed us then, but this is cover is simply stunning which is why we’ve also chosen it as our Song of the Day.

Gill Sandell and Chris T-T produce an idiosyncratic and iconoclastic celebration of some overlooked musical treasures from the last fifty years with covers of Willie Nelson, Kaiser Chiefs, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more.

Neil Young releases ‘A Letter Home’ a deeply personal album which begins with a spoken letter to his late mother. Watch him performing Bert Jansch’s Needle of Death in a 1947 Voice-o-Graph.

A beautiful mix featuring some of most gentle sounding music that packs a big emotional punch: Same Brookes, Damien Jurado, Jackson C Frank & many more!

On this week’s Songs from the Ark Del Day will be featuring new tracks from Johnny Dowd, Jeff Finlin, Charlie Parr and The Snakes. There’s also some absolute classic Neil Young and lots more!

Here are the Top 20 most voted for tracks over the past 30 days on Folk Radio UK. We’ve also included a recent playlist to give a flavour of what we’re playing.

Watch Thom Yorke talking about Neil Young in this 2008 uncut interview that was orginally going to be used in “Don’t Be Denied”, a documentary on Neil Young.

★★★★★ Phantom Limb have released their second album The Pines. Heartfelt and Country-Soul tinged Yolanda Quartey sounds effortless in her delivery.

North Carolina born Jonathan Wilson’s latest release, Gentle Spirit, rekindles music from a bygone era of the 70′s Laurel Canyon music scene, infused in gentle psychedelia bringing solace in a maddening world seeking Shangri-La.