Full Show Audio: Neil Young & Promise Of The Real Deliver Bust Out & Jam Out ‘Cortez’ At Outlaw Music Festival

On Sunday the inaugural Outlaw Music Festival was held at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The lineup featured Lee Ann Womack, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Neil Young & Promise Of The Real and more. Sunday was Neil & POTR’s sixth U.S. performance this year as they spent the summer tearing up Europe. Young and his young backing band delivered an impressive 95-minute performance in Scranton and audio of the entire set has surfaced.

Neil started his set with a handful of solo classics including “Heart Of Gold,” “Out On The Weekend” and “Harvest Moon.” Promise Of The Real emerged to back Young on the back half of the set. The biggest surprise was the return of “Welfare Mothers” off the Neil Young & Crazy Horse album Rust Never Sleeps. Young had never performed the song with Promise Of The Real in the past and Sunday’s version marked the first in the U.S. since 2003 as he did play “Welfare Mothers” with Crazy Horse in Australia and Belgium during their 2013 tour together.

Young & POTR ended their performance with a run of beloved gems from Neil’s songbook starting with “Cowgirl In The Sand.” Next up was “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” before the band showed off their improvisational prowess on a 15-minute “Cortez The Killer.” The group brought their Outlaw set to a close with “Fuckin’ Up” and “Rockin’ In The Free World.” On September 30, Neil Young & Promise Of The Real will play their first of two shows at Town Park in Telluride.

Listen to an audience recording shared by Jam Buzz: