Overview
- Young disclosed Tuesday that he quietly posted Corduroy Plants, an hourlong, 11-song concert film, to the Neil Young Archives for free.
- The film, directed by Daryl Hannah, layers Love Earth tour performances with topical imagery and pairs songs with pointed visuals such as oil‑spill footage during “Vampire Blues” and wartime images during “Cortez the Killer.”
- Corduroy Plants serves as a visual companion to the recent live LP As Time Explodes but omits the LP tracks “After the Gold Rush” and “Looking Forward.”
- Other current updates from Young’s site include the February cancellation of his planned 2026 Europe and U.K. tour, a finished but undated Chrome Hearts studio album called Second Song, and a scheduled Farm Aid appearance on September 26 in Virginia Beach.
- The release continues Young’s strategy of using the Neil Young Archives to distribute work directly to fans with little promotion and follows his ongoing archival work, including progress on Volume 4 of the Archives.