Neil Young Speaks About His New Album "Monsanto Years"

Brandon Turbeville
Natural Blaze
April 24, 2015

Neil Young appeared on stage in New York recently to address his much anticipated upcoming album that will focus on Monsanto and the threat the multinational corporation poses to the country’s food supply.

The album was recorded with the band Promise of the Real, led by Lukas Nelson, son of legendary country singer Willie Nelson as well as another of Willie’s sons, Micah.

The band and Young premiered material from the new album last weekend at a small club in California.

According to Uncut magazine, the set list was as follows:

Country Home

New Song 1 – People Want To Hear About Love??

New Song 2 – New Day For The Planet??

Down By The River

New Song 3 – Too Big Too Fail??

New Song 4 – GMO – Starbucks??

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Walk On

New Song 5 – Monsanto

New Song 6 – I Don’t Know You??

New Song 7 – Seeds??

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

New Song 8 – Big Sky/Wolf Moon??

Love And Only Love

New Song 9

New Song 10

Country Home

You can click here to see a short clip of the performance that took place in San Luis Obispo.

Of the album, Monsanto Years, Neil Young had to say,

“It’s me with a bunch of people who are much younger than I am. I found some friends to play with and we had a great time doing it. It’s a movie about making a record. It’s a pretty simple thing. It’s just that the record is not about love and kisses and relationships, the pluses and minuses. It’s more about what we’re doing as a civilization.

“I don’t really have anything against the people at Monsanto or the human beings working for Monsanto. But the laws that they’re making have made Monsanto the perfect poster child for problems that we have with the corporate government.

So I wrote a bunch of songs about it. These kids I’m playing with all are with me on it.”

You can view Neil discussing the album in the video below:



Also see:
Neil Young: Chemical Factory Farming Threatens the "Garden of the World"

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 500 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.