2010 Twisted Road Tour - 3rd Leg

2010-09-20 Marina Civic Center Panama City Florida

2010-09-22 Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater Florida

2010-09-23 Hard Rock Live Hollywood Florida

2010-09-25 IP Casino, Resort & Spa Biloxi Mississippi

2010-09-26 Saenger Theatre Mobile Alabama

2010-09-28 Saenger Theatre Pensacola Florida

2010-10-02 Miller Park Milwaukee Wisconsin Farm Aid 25

2010-10-23 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View California Bridge School Benefit 24

2010-10-24 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View California Bridge School Benefit 24

Where: Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, Milwaukee, Wis.
When: Saturday, Oct. 2; gates open at noon
Tickets: $39.50, $56.50, $76.50 and $97.50; on sale
9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14; www.tickets.com or (414) 902-4000

Of note: The 25th anniversary edition of Farm Aid will feature John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and others.

MILWAUKEE (WKOW) -- For the first time in its 25 year history, the Farm Aid concert will be in Wisconsin.

Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will headline the Oct. 2 concert at Miller Park, organizers said Monday.

Tickets for "Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America" will go on sale at 9 a.m. Aug. 14, at the Brewers box office, by calling (414) 902-4000.

Tickets range from $39.50 to $97.50.

Doors to the event open at noon on Oct. 2. The concert will be broadcast live on DirectTV.

Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land. Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land.

Daniel Lanois-produced disc due in the fall; Archives Vol. 2 includes three unreleased LPs

By Andy Greene, Rolling Stone

Jul 28, 2010 4:45 PM EDT Neil Young is in the final stages of mixing his new album, which he recorded with U2 producer Daniel Lanois in a Los Angeles house earlier this year. Following a longtime tradition, Young only recorded around the peak of the full moon. "We cut a couple of solo acoustic songs, but the rest is very electric," says Lanois. "There's no band, but I got in there with my sonics. There's nothing else out there like it."

Lanois was surprised when Young called him about working together earlier this year. "He just called me out of the blue," he says. "He said to me, 'I want to make an acoustic record. Will you film me and record me?' Apparently he saw some films I put on YouTube of my new band Black Dub and he really liked them." (Read more about Black Dub and Lanois' recent motorcycle crash.) Young often records at his home studio in Northern California, but they decided to cut these sessions at a Los Angeles home Lanois describes as a "beautiful Mediterranean villa."

"We picked it largely because of the cinematic opportunities," he says. "I have transportable recording equipment and we put something together just for Neil. I put out my best amps, my best pianos and best guitars. He was very impressed by all of it. We cut the whole thing over just nine days during three separate full-moon cycles earlier this year."

Young is previewing eight of the tracks on his ongoing Twisted Road solo tour — though not always in the same arrangement as they'll appear on the album. "You Never Call," a sweet ode to his late longtime creative partner Larry "L.A." Johnson, has been played on acoustic guitar on the road, but Lanois says they'll probably use a version they cut on the organ for the album.

The disc was supposed to be called Twisted Road, but "I'm trying to talk him out of that," laughs Lanois. "We're hoping to have it out in the late fall." Lanois will debut footage of four complete songs October 2nd at the Nuit Blanche Festival in Toronto at the stroke of midnight.

"They are giving me an entire square in front of city hall to an instillation," he says. "I am doing a 24-channel sound instillation with pictures. I'll show the actual takes we used on the album, so the vocal performances by Neil will be seen on the screens."

In other Neil Young news, the singer announced that the second volume of his Archives box set is imminent. It will contain at least three unreleased albums (1975's Homegrown, 1977's Chrome Dreams and 1978's Oceanside-Countryside) as well as live recordings from Young's 1976 tour with Crazy Horse. These albums will originally be released in vinyl before they appear on the box set. There's no word on when exactly when these will come out — or what other material will appear in the collection. Fans are hoping to hear 1973's long out-of-print Time Fades Away, as well as producer David Briggs' original cut of Tonight's the Night and a live concert from the 1973 tour backed by the Santa Monica Flyers.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 – Ben Keith, a longtime sideman to Neil Young on pedal steel, died at age 73.

Keith died of a heart attack while on Young's northern California ranch, according to the Los Angeles Times. Young mentioned Keith's death during a concert July 26 in Winnipeg, Canada.

Keith played on Patsy Cline's I Fall to Pieces.

He was born in Fort Riley, Kansas in 1937 and became a session player in Nashville for many years. Among those he played with live or in the studio were Emmylou Harris Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Keith produced Jewel's 1995 debut, "Pieces of You."

Keith met Young in 1971 during work on his "Harvest" recording because Young needed a pedal steel player. Keith played on more than a dozen albums and tours with Young. Neil Young News, a blog dedicated to Young, said "Legend has it that Neil asked bassist Tim Drummond if he knew any pedal-steel players in town. Tim contacted Ben, who lived in town and off he went to the studio: "I didn't know who anyone was, so I asked, who's that guy over there?" and was told "that's Neil Young".

:: From: countrystandradtime.com

More info: :: latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/07/ben-keith-neil-youngs-steel-guitarist

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