Neil Young To Issue Unreleased 1974 Album ‘Homegrown’ & Shares ‘Try’ Single

Neil Young‘s previously unreleased 1974 album Homegrown will be issued by Reprise Records on June 19. Young shared the single “Try” off what he calls, “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes A Time.”

The 12-tracks on Homegrown were recorded between June 1974 and January 1975. Seven of the songs are previously unreleased: “Try,” “Separate Ways,” “Mexico,” “Kansas,” “We Don’t Smoke It No More,” “Vacancy” and the spoken word narration “Florida.” The record also includes the original recordings of five songs that would later appear on other albums: “Love Is A Rose,” “White Line,” “Little Wing,” “Star Of Bethlehem” and the title track. Emmylou Harris and The Band’s Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm are among those who contributed to the album.

Young shared the below message regarding the release of Homegrown:

I apologize. This album Homegrown should have been there for you a couple of years after Harvest. It’s the sad side of a love affair. The damage done. The heartache. I just couldn’t listen to it. I wanted to move on. So I kept it to myself, hidden away in the vault, on the shelf, in the back of my mind….but I should have shared it. It’s actually beautiful. That’s why I made it in the first place. Sometimes life hurts. You know what I mean. This is the one that got away. Recorded in analog in 1974 and early 1975 from the original master tapes and restored with love and care by John Hanlon. Levon Helm is drumming on some tracks, Karl T Himmel on others, Emmylou Harris singing on one, Homegrown contains a narration, several acoustic solo songs never even published or heard until this release and some great songs played with a great band of my friends, including Ben Keith – steel and slide – Tim Drummond – bass and Stan Szelest – piano. Anyway, it’s coming your way in 2020, the first release from our archive in the new decade. Come with us into 2020 as we bring the past.

Stream the previously unheard recording of “Try” below:

Homegrown Tracklist

1. Separate Ways
2. Try
3. Mexico
4. Love Is A Rose
5. Homegrown
6. Florida
7. Kansas
8. We Don’t Smoke It No More
9. White Line
10. Vacancy
11. Little Wing
12. Star of Bethlehem