Neil Young Biography Flash: 1965 Song Reborn on Second Song

Neil Young Biography Flash a weekly Biography. Neil Young has spent the past few days doing what only Neil Young can do at 80 years old: quietly reshaping his own history while gearing up for yet another late‑career chapter that actually matters. According to Rolling Stone and Consequence, he is in full rollout mode for his upcoming studio album Second Song, his fiftieth, recorded with his current band The Chrome Hearts and scheduled for release around September 18–19, 2026 on Reprise Records. Multiple outlets, including Consequence and German coverage via Ad-hoc News, underline that this is his second studio album with The Chrome Hearts and that it will come in vinyl, CD, digital, and high‑resolution formats through his Neil Young Archives, signaling a serious, globally planned release rather than a niche side project. The big artistic story this week is Young reaching sixty years back into his past. AXS TV and Rockland in Germany report that he has just posted a brand‑new recording of Casting Me Away From You, a ballad he originally wrote as a teenager in 1965, now revived and uploaded to the Neil Young Archives as a preview of Second Song. Jambands and Rolling Stone both note that this follows the earlier release of the 11‑plus‑minute title track Second Song earlier in August, and that the album also includes another deep cut resurrection, a re‑recording of his 1964 obscurity I’ll Love You Forever. Biographically, this is classic late‑period Neil: curating his own myth, threading his teenage songwriter self directly into his present‑day output, and doing it on his own platform. Business‑wise and on the touring front, the past few days have clarified how selective he intends to be. Consequence, as summarized by Ad-hoc News, reports that after cancelling his planned Love Earth European tour for summer 2026, he currently has no rescheduled European dates; instead, the anchor on his public calendar is Farm Aid in Virginia Beach on September 26, 2026, with The Chrome Hearts, alongside Willie Nelson and other Farm Aid regulars. AXS TV and Jambands add that he will warm up with two rare shows with Willie Nelson, September 22 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and September 24 in Philadelphia. Rolling Stone further notes that Young has reiterated via Neil Young Archives that he will not play venues using facial recognition surveillance technology, a stance that could shape where he appears for the rest of his touring life. On the public‑appearance side, major interviews or splashy talk‑show moments have not surfaced in the last 24 hours from any of the major music or news outlets. Most of the current Neil Young headlines are anchored to Casting Me Away From You going live on the Neil Young Archives, the confirmation of the Second Song track details, and the tightening of those three late‑September dates in the United States. Any talk of broader tour expansions or surprise collaborations beyond Farm Aid and the two Willie Nelson shows remains speculative at this point; no reputable outlet has confirmed additional dates. Social‑media chatter in the last few days has largely amplified the same themes: music press accounts and fan sites circulating links to the new track, puzzling over whether the album drops on the 18th or 19th of September, and praising the way Young is mining his mid‑1960s notebooks for new material. Rolling Stone’s own social posts frame Casting Me Away From You as a kind of time‑travel moment, a teenage song now sung by an octogenarian, and that’s exactly the biographical weight here: Neil Young is not coasting, he’s stitching his entire life’s work into a single ongoing narrative. Thanks for listening, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an update on Neil Young, and search the term Biography Flash for more great biographies. Thanks for listening. This has been a Quiet Please production. Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta