Though Stephen Stills and a handful of other musicians have spoken reverently for decades about the music of the late reclusive 1960s singer-songwriter Fred Neil, Neil has remained unknown to most music fans. His life was largely a mystery after […]
Every art form goes through periods of intense transformation as artists discover new avenues and new methods to express themselves through the medium. Television is currently experiencing such a revolution, driven in part by advancements in streaming technology and the […]
This is an album that is truly homegrown. Recorded “live” in their living room toe to toe and in some studios — as the album liner notes state – this album is a return to the spare, roots-style of past male / […]
Though revered as an influential singer-songwriter, Fred Neil is best known for other people’s recordings of his work, particularly Harry Nilsson’s 1969 Top-10 hit “Everybody’s Talkin’”. With that in mind, it makes sense that, before he gravitated to the Greenwich […]
An elusive, private and troubled man, Fred Neil created only a handful of albums. Right in the middle of that seven-year run (1964-1971) stands his most fully realized work. So completely unforced and organic in its execution, it seems apt […]
From the very beginning, the New York folk scene — almost inevitably, it needs saying — had a dark side. For all the “new day a-comin’” optimism of the young Bob Dylan, of Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen, and […]
He’s the answer to the question, “Who wrote for Buddy Holly, was backed up live by Bob Dylan, and recorded with Gram Parsons?” The late Fred Neil was a unique figure, associated, as the title of this reissued 1965 Elektra […]
