Neil Young shares free concert film Corduroy Plants

Neil Young quietly dropped an hour-long concert video on his Archives website this week. Corduroy Plants, directed by his wife and frequent collaborator Daryl Hannah, pairs compiled footage of Young and the chrome Hearts’ 2025 Love Earth tour with newsreels and short clips of construction at the White House, Elon Musk, displaced migrant workers, and World War II. The film comes just months after Young’s new live album, As Time Explodes, which also covered that same 2025 tour and features songs like “Ohio,” “Vampire Blues,” and “Like a Hurricane.” 

The video arrives as a balm for Young fans who’d hoped to see one of his European shows this summer. Young scrapped the dates, citing a need to “take a break.” Nevertheless, Shakey, who eschews most social media due to its ties to the current political administration, remains busy with Second Songs, a newly recorded album featuring previously unheard material from the 1960s. It remains unclear when Second Songs will be released, but in the meantime, listeners might be sated by an appearance from Young at Farm Aid in September, alongside Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. Also en route is the fourth volume of his Neil Young Archives set, which will cover the period between the third volume’s dropoff in 1987 and his 2004 Greendale tour. That volume, Young promised on his site, “is underway.”

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