A Flood Of Neil Young Archival Releases Expected Over Next Year

Longtime Neil Young manager Elliott Roberts recently spoke with Billboard and shared exciting news. A bevy of Neil’s films will soon be released and the long-awaited second volume of Archives is nearly complete and should be issued in 2017.

Roberts told Billboard the recent re-releases of Young’s 1982 epic Human Highway and 1979 concert film Rust Never Sleeps are just the start of what’s coming soon. “Neil has a whole series of Shakey Films that we’ve done through the years,” Roberts explained to Billboard. “We haven’t really had a chance to put a lot of them out. Either he tours or starts doing an album or moves on to the next one. But we have about six or seven full-length films that will be coming out over the course of the next two years. These are really the first two.”

So what can we expect? Roberts mentioned Hal Ashby’s documentary of Neil’s 1982-83 solo Trans Tour as well as a film prepped by Tim Pope chronicling an early Neil Young performance in England as well as the first full-scale rollout of Young’s Greendale film from 2003. There’s also vinyl reissues coming on September 6, namely 1973’s Time Fades Away, 1974’s On The Beach and the 1975 albums Tonight’s The Night and Zuma. In addition, look for a reissue of Time Fades Away in the near feature.

In 2009 Neil Young released his most ambitious archival project yet dubbed Neil Young Archives Volume 1: 1963 – 1972. Ever since the 8-CD/10-DVD/10-BluRay box set was issued fans have been awaiting the second volume, which is said to span 1972 to 1982. Roberts revealed Archives 2 “is nearly completed and should surface in 2017.” Later this month Young returns to the stage with Promise Of The Real for Farm Aid and the Outlaw Music Festival.