Neil Young gives release to 'lost' album Homegrown

Neil Young by Henry Diltz

Neil Young will release one of his most notorious ‘lost’ albums next month.

No less than forty-six years after its original recording, fans will finally be able to get their hands on Homegrown from June 19th – Young has apologised for keeping them waiting.

“This album Homegrown should have been there for you a couple of years after Harvest,” he writes. “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.”

The original mixes, committed to tape in 1974 and early 1975, have been restored by John Hanlon and mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.