By Request: NYFAQ Table Of Contents

Since a number of you have been asking -- and since my ever-anxious publishers today joined this group -- here is a preview (subject to change) of the table of contents for my Neil Young book, which I still hope to have out by his fall.

As always, this comes with the usual disclaimer that things are subject to change as events develop between now and my late spring deadline to deliver the actual goods.

Neil Young FAQ

The Albums And Archives Of Neil Young

Contents

Introduction: Everybody Knows This Is Neil

About The Author

Forward (Writer TBD)

Part One: A Dreamer Of Pictures

Neil Young’s Early Years: 1963 – 1969

1. - I Am A Child: From Canada To California
2. - Hello, Broken Arrow: Buffalo Springfield
3. - Buffalo Springfield Again: Latter Day Remembrances, Compilations, Anthologies And Boxed Sets
4. – Is This Place At Your Command?; Neil Young, Elliot Roberts And David Briggs
5. – When I Saw Those Thrashers Rolling By: Neil Young & Crazy Horse
6. - Sleeps With Angels (Too Soon): Departed Bandmates, Brothers In Arms, And Sisters In Song
7. - You See Us Together Chasing The Moonlight: Neil Young’s Bands

Part Two: The Needle, The Damage And The Ditch:

1969 – 1975

8. - We Have All Been Here Before: A Brief History Of Crosby, Stills, Nash (And Sometimes Young)
9. – An Open Letter From Neil Young (Reprinted from Blogcritics Magazine)
10. - There Was A Band Playing In My Head, And I Felt Like Getting High: After The Gold Rush
11. - I’ve Been To Hollywood, I’ve Been To Redwood: Harvest, Nashville, And The Stray Gators
12. – So I Headed For The Ditch: Time Fades Away, On The Beach, And Tonight’s The Night – Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy
13. – Why Do I Keep Fuckin’ Up?: Neil Young’s Biggest Commercial Flops
14. – Hey, Ho, Away We Go, We’re On The Road To Never: Neil Young’s Most Underrated Albums

Part Three: Dancing On The Light From Star To Star: 1975-1980

15. – Zuma, The Stills-Young Band, And The Return Of The Horse
16. – Like An Ocean Fish Who Swam Upstream: Chrome Dreams, American Stars And Bars, The Ducks, Decade, And Comes A Time
17. - More To The Picture Than Meets The Eye: Human Highway, Rust Never Sleeps, And The Punk Rock Connection
18. – Get Off Of That Couch, Turn Off That MTV: Neil Young’s Live Recordings
19. – Piece Of Crap: Five Essential Neil Young Bootlegs
20. – A Kinder, Gentler Machine Gun Hand: Five Great Neil Young Concerts From Seattle, Washington

Part Four: Sample And Hold: The Geffen Years And Neil Young’s Lost Decade

21. – Why Do You Ride That Crazy Horse?: Hawks And Doves, ReAcTor, And A Kid Named Ben
22. – I Need A Unit To Sample And Hold: Trans, Island In The Sun, And Geffen
23. – Computer Cowboy: The Best Neil Young Websites
24. – No Matter Where I Go, I Never Hear My Record On The Radio: The Shocking Pinks, Old Ways, And Farm Aid
25. – Strobe Lights Flashin’ On The Overpass: Landing On Water, Life, Muddy Track, And The Bridge School
26. – Aint’ Singin’ For Pepsi: The Blue Notes, American Dream, Ten Men Working, And The Road Back Home
27. – What We Have Got Here, Is A Perfect Track: Eldorado, Times Square, The Young And The Restless
28. – This Shit Don’t Sell: A Brief History Of Neil Young’s Unreleased Recordings

Part Five: A Thousand Points Of Light: Neil In The Nineties

29. – Rockin’ In The Free World: Freedom And The “Return” Of Neil Young
30. - Don’t Spook The Horse: Ragged Glory And Arc/Weld
31. – From Hank To Hendrix: The Most Noteworthy Neil Young Covers, Collaborations, Sendups And Tributes
32. – On This Harvest Moon: Twenty Years Later, The Sequel
33. - Change Your Mind: Sleeps With Angels, Mirror Ball, And How The Punks Met The Godfather Of Grunge
34. - Good To See You Again: Broken Arrow, Dead Man, Looking Forward, And Year Of The Horse
35. - Touch The Night: Neil Young’s Latter Day Disciples

Part Six: It’s A Dream: 2000 – 2011

36. – Let’s Roll: Broken Arrow, 9/11, Are You Passionate?, And Greendale
37. - Falling Off The Face Of The Earth: Prairie Wind And Heart Of Gold
38. - Motion Pictures On My TV Screen: Shakey In The Movies
39. – Should’ve Been Done Long Ago: Living With War, Let’s Impeach The President, And The Freedom Of Speech Tour
40. – Sure Enough, They’ll Be Selling Stuff: The Resurrection Of The Archives
41. - No Hidden Path: Chrome Dreams II and Fork In The Road
42. – I Said Solo, They Said Acoustic: Neil Young Brings Le Noise To The Twisted Road
43. – Buffalo Springfield Again

Acknowledgments/ Sources

Index

PS - Congrats to Neil on his long overdue first Grammy for music this past weekend!