Neil Younger Performs 1983 Deep Minimize ‘My Boy’ for First Time in 42 Years

Neil Young revisited one of the private songs in his in depth catalog throughout a particular profit live performance on Friday evening (Could 23), delivering the primary stay efficiency of “My Boy” in additional than 4 many years.

The present, a solo acoustic set held on the grounds of Ontario’s Lakefield Faculty Faculty, marked Younger’s first full efficiency of 2025 and supported restoration efforts for a historic 116-year-old cottage close by. Regardless of the chilly and wet circumstances, attendees paid as much as $1,500 for tickets to witness the intimate 18-song efficiency.

Whereas the set featured classics like “Coronary heart of Gold,” “Comes a Time” and “Sugar Mountain,” it was the mid-show performance of “My Boy” that drew audible emotion from the gang. Initially launched on 1985’s Previous Methods, the banjo-led ballad is a tribute to Younger’s eldest son, Zeke. The tune had not been carried out stay because the 1983 Solo Trans tour.

“Why are you growin’ up so quick, my boy?” Younger sang. Hours earlier, he had posted a classic picture on social media of himself with Zeke and his late father, famend Canadian journalist Scott Younger. “Practising for Lakefield, I used to be enjoying ‘My Boy,’ desirous about my very own dad. I knew he should have heard this tune,” Younger wrote.

“My dad was an amazing man and Zeke is a superb son. I believe ‘My Boy’ is my favourite recording of all those I’ve achieved.”

Younger additionally shocked followers with hardly ever performed tracks like “Love/Artwork Blues” (final carried out in 2008) and the CSNY deep lower “Title of Love,” which hadn’t been seen on a setlist since 2014. He closed the present with “Previous Man,” though a printed setlist hinted at two meant encore tracks — “Throw Your Hatred Down” and “Rockin’ within the Free World” — that had been doubtless scrapped attributable to inclement climate.

The present comes forward of Younger’s Love Earth Tour, which launches June 18 in Sweden. The U.S. leg kicks off Aug. 8 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Whereas the setlist stays beneath wraps, the tour is anticipated to highlight tracks from his upcoming album Talkin’ to the Bushes, which arrives on June 13 through Reprise Data.