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Neil Young performing at an empty Coronation Hall in Omemee, Ontario. Credit: Neil Young Archives.
Neil Young has returned to his hometown for a new performance of ‘Comes A Time’ – watch it below.
The video sees Young playing an empty Coronation Hall in Omemee, Ontario.
“Coronation Hall in Omemee, Ontario, is a wonderful old theater,” Young wrote on his Archives website. “It holds memories of my family, all together in that little town. My dad played Coronation Hall once in a local show as my mother, my brother, and I sat in the audience.”
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He added: “I was uncharacteristically nervous that night in 2017 playing Coronation Hall by myself for the first time and streaming to the world.
Rolling Stone Watch Neil Young Play ‘Comes a Time’ to an Empty Theater in His Hometown
Young returned to Omemee’s Coronation Hall to play a socially distanced rendition of the 1978 classic
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Neil Young returned to his childhood hometown of Omemee, Ontario, and played his 1978 classic “Come a Time” to an empty Coronation Hall, the site of his 2017
“Coronation Hall in Omemee, Ontario, is a wonderful old theater,” he wrote. “It holds memories of my family, all together in that little town. My dad played Coronation Hall once in a local show as my mother, my brother, and I sat in the audience.”
Rolling Stone Menu Hear Neil Young’s Unreleased ‘Harvest’-Era Gem ‘Goodbye Christians on the Shore’
Song was recorded in December 1972 and then placed in a vault for 48 years
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There are 12 songs on Neil Young’s new box set
Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 that have never been released before in any form. One of the most beautiful is “Goodbye Christians on the Shore,” which even die-hard Young fans didn’t know existed until very recently. It’s on disc one (
Everybody’s Alone 1972-1973) and Young also just posted it on YouTube along with a video.
He recorded the song on December 15th, 1972 with the Stray Gators (drummer Kenny Buttery, bassist Tim Drummond, pianist Jack Nitzsche, guitarist Ben Keith) just before the launch of the Time Fades Away tour. The same session yielded “Come Along and Say You Will” and “Time Fades Away.” Those two songs were played live on the tour, but “Goodbye Christians on the Shore” was shoved into the v
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Neil Young s music archive is free to listen to on his website for the rest of 2020
14 December 2020
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The 75-year-old music legend has given his fans the gift of his entire career s work online this Christmas to provide some comfort listening amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a statement on Neil Young Archives, he said: “We are doing well here and feeling good. We hope you are well, too.
“If you are locked down, we are here for you with hours of listening and cruising around through the years in movies. We want you to enjoy what we have to share at NYA … It’s my music and our lives. Peace.”