Neil Young has canceled all of his 2026 tour plans.

Young and his most recent touring band, the Chrome Hearts, were scheduled to launch the 13-date European Love Earth tour on June 19th in Manchester, England. Elvis Costello and the Imposters were set to be the opening act at the first nine shows.

“I have decided to take a break and will not be touring Europe this time,” Young (sorta) explained on his official website. “Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. I’m sorry to let you down, but this is not the time. I do love playing LIVE anda being with you and the Chrome Hearts. LOVE Neil be well.”

Young and the Chrome Hearts  – keyboardist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo – toured Europe and North America last year, appearing together at Farm Aid in September and most recently at Harvest Moon: A Gathering in Lake Hughes, California on Oct. 25.

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The group also backed Young on his most recent solo album, 2025’s Talkin to the Trees. Young is the second major rock band to cancel their 2026 tour plans in the past 24 hours, as Twisted Sister called off their 50th anniversary reunion plans Thursday night due to singer Dee Snider’s health concerns.

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Love Earth Tour 2026 Dates

6/19 – Manchester, England @ Heaton Park*
6/22 – Nimes, France @ Festival de Nimes*
6/24 – Nancy, France @ Nancy Open Air*
6/27 – Chelmsford, England @ State Fayre, Hylands Park*
6/29 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Glasgow Summer Sessions, Bellahouston Park*
7/1 – Cork, Ireland @ Virgin Media Park*
7/3 – Oxfordshire, England @ Blenheim Palace Festival*
7/5 – Cardiff, Wales @ Blackweir Fields*
7/8 – Weert, the Netherlands @ Evenemententerrein Weert-Noord*
7/10 – Zottegem, Belgium @ Rock Zottegem
7/12 – Locarno, Switzerland @ Moon+Stars, Piazza Grande
7/14 – Lucca, Italy @ Lucca Summer Festival, Mura Storiche
7/16 – Codroipo- Udine, Italy @ Villa Manin

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Neil Young Live Albums Ranked

Official concert LPs, Archives Series offerings, pairings with Crazy Horse, Promise of the Real and the Ducks … there’s a lot to unpack here.

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32. Arc (1991)

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32. ‘Arc’ (1991)

The companion volume to Weld, recorded during Young and Crazy Horse’s 1991 tour supporting Ragged Glory, assembles various stages of feedback, song intros and stray vocals into a 35-minute sound collage that’s more art project than music album. Imagine a band tuning up onstage for more than half an hour, oblivious of its audience, without ever finding a song or purpose after plugging in. That’s Arc in a nutshell.

31. Year of the Horse (1997)

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31. ‘Year of the Horse’ (1997)

Six years after Weld captured Young and Crazy Horse onstage at one of the peak moments in their long career, Year of the Horse is a somewhat companion to a documentary concert film with the same name. But the spark is diminished here, as the band tears through a set of similar songs with just a fraction of the energy. An “official” release that probably would have been included in the Archives Series a couple of decades later.

30. Road Rock V 1: Friends & Relatives (2000)

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30. ‘Road Rock V 1: Friends & Relatives’ (2000)

Recorded on Young’s 2000 tour, Road Rock V 1: Friends & Relatives features Spooner Oldham, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Jim Keltner and, on one song, Chrissie Hynde, who opened show dates. Many of the eight songs have appeared on other live Young albums: “Cowgirl in the Sand” (18 minutes here), “Tonight’s the Night” (10 and a half minutes). A weary cover of “All Along the Watchtower” concludes this mostly pointless collection.

29. Earth (2016)

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29. ‘Earth’ (2016)

The Monsanto Years, Young’s 2015 environmental plea with Promise of the Real, was taken even further on the following year’s concert album from their tour. Along with live readings of album tracks, Earth also includes some older songs (“After the Gold Rush,” “Vampire Blues”) and sounds of various insects, birds and animals interspersed between the tracks. It drives home the point, but it can also be intrusive at times.

28. High Flyin (2023)

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28. ‘High Flyin” (2023)

During the summer of 1977, Young played a handful of shows in a small Santa Cruz, California, bar with a band called the Ducks, which included Moby Grape’s Bob Mosley. The quartet traded off vocals, tested new material onstage and sounded like an average bar band on a good night. Young takes the lead on a few songs — “Human Highway,” “Mr. Soul” — from this 2023 Archives set, content to be one-fourth of an ensemble.

27. Coastal (2025)

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27. ‘Coastal’ (2025)

COVID-19 kept Young from concert stages for a few years in the early ’20s, so when restrictions were lifted in 2023, he began playing solo shows on the West Coast with wife Daryl Hannah, armed with a camera, filming the performances for a documentary about the experience. The 11-song Coastal soundtrack dips into his songbook — 1967’s “Expecting to Fly” through 2022’s “Love Earth” — with age, insight and creaky growl.

26. Bluenote Cafe (2015)

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26. ‘Bluenote Cafe’ (2015)

Young assembled a new group for 1988’s This Note’s for You, a blues-based record and his final ’80s album of restless genre hopping before returning to more familiar rock ‘n’ roll on Freedom. Bluenote Cafe comes from the Bluenotes’ tour supporting the LP, compiling almost a dozen shows the group (Crazy Horse, plus a six-piece horn section) performed in 1987-88. The Archives Series release documents an oft-neglected period.

25. Return to Greendale (2020)

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25. ‘Return to Greendale’ (2020)

Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 2003 album Greendale was inspired by Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, an ambitious project that wasn’t always matched by its execution. Not long after the LP’s release, they ran through the entire album onstage in Toronto, occasionally breathing more intensity and focus into the sprawling narrative. Return to Greendale includes the album’s 10 songs and nothing more. At the very least, it’s better rendered.

24. Dreamin Man Live 92 (2009)

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24. ‘Dreamin’ Man Live ’92’ (2009)

Recorded before Harvest Moon‘s release late in 1992, Dreamin’ Man Live ’92 finds Young working out the album’s 10 songs onstage in various cities in the run-up to the LP. Because that return-to-country-music record is mostly stripped down anyway, these solo concert versions don’t offer much new perspective on the songs. The ragged intimacy occasionally pays off in this Archives Series entry that came out 17 years later.

23. A Treasure (2011)

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23. ‘A Treasure’ (2011)

After throwing curveballs to his fans with Trans and then Everybody’s Rockin’, Young made a country album that few heard and went on the road with a band (including ace session keyboardist Spooner Oldham) adept at playing honky tonk. A Treasure collects a dozen songs from Young and the International Harvesters’ 1984-85 tour, including a reimagining of Buffalo Springfield’s “Flying on the Ground Is Wrong.”

22. Tuscaloosa (2019)

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22. ‘Tuscaloosa’ (2019)

Recorded during the same 1973 tour that yielded Young’s first live LP, Time Fades Away, the Archives Series outing Tuscaloosa includes some well-known favorites, unlike the earlier LP, which featured unreleased songs. This was an exorcising period for Young, who led a temporary band, the Stray Gators, night after night while still grieving the death of Crazy Horse’s Danny Whitten — a raw, scarred attempt at healing wounds.

21. Before and After (2023)

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21. ‘Before and After’ (2023)

Young revisits his past on this solo acoustic record from 2023, glancing back at Buffalo Springfield (“Burned,” “Mr. Soul’), classics (“Comes a Time”) and obscurities from his deep catalog (“I’m the Ocean” from 1995’s Mirror Ball, “If You Got Love,” recorded for but left off 1982’s Trans). By rescaling plugged-in Crazy Horse songs in the solo setting, he finds a new voice for decades-old songs. He’s still on a journey after all these years.

20. Odeon Budokan (2023)

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20. ‘Odeon Budokan’ (2023)

Culled from Young’s March 1976 concerts at London’s Hammersmith Odeon and Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall, Odeon Budokan gathers five solo acoustic songs and five electric performances with Crazy Horse. An album was put together for release in the mid-’70s but was shelved until its appearance on the second Archives box in 2020 and then as a stand-alone release in 2023. It’s an abbreviated sampling of the Zuma tour.

19. Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973 (2023)

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19. ‘Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973’ (2023)

Like Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live, released five years earlier, Somewhere Under the Rainbow 1973 collects a live performance from Young and the Stray Gators not long after Tonight’s the Night was recorded and shelved. The difference is that the set from London’s Rainbow Theatre includes a handful of solo acoustic numbers, giving the material a haunting, brittle quality. Young’s fragility is put in focus here.

18. Noise & Flowers (2022)

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18. ‘Noise & Flowers’ (2022)

Young’s second live album with Promise of the Real — following 2016’s Earth — was recorded two weeks after the death of longtime manager Elliot Roberts, a key figure in the singer-songwriter’s career. While the tone isn’t mournful, Noise & Flowers unspools like a history of Young’s music, starting with a retooled version of Buffalo Springfield’s “Mr. Soul” and ending with a fierce “Fuckin’ Up.” In between, they sound primed.

17. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 (2022)

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17. ‘Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971’ (2022)

Released at the same time as two other Official Bootleg Series live recordings from the first half of the ’70s, the acoustic Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 chronicles a solo show from Los Angeles. The set is full of frequent concert songs during the period — “On the Way Home,” “Cowgirl in the Sand,” “I Am a Child” — as well as an early version of the 1972 No. 1 “Heart of Gold.” An enjoyable, if familiar, outing for Young.

16. Fu##in Up (2024)

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16. ‘Fu##in’ Up’ (2024)

Rightly celebrated as one of his greatest records, 1990’s Ragged Glory found Young and Crazy Horse rejuvenated after a rocky 1980s that took them in wayward directions. They recreated the album track-by-track at a small, private show in Toronto in 2023. The kicker with Fu##in’ Up is that all songs except the cover “Farmer John” get new titles based on their lyrics. The result is a spirited revisit of a classic album that still delivers.

15. Royce Hall 1971 (2022)

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15. ‘Royce Hall 1971’ (2022)

From the Official Bootleg Series, a 1971 solo acoustic show from Los Angeles that spotlights songs from the not-yet-released Harvest. (The 1972 career-altering album used “The Needle and the Damage Done” from the occasionally tentative concert.) Like other Archives live sets from the period, it follows a playbook of old solo songs, Buffalo Springfield tracks, stripped-down versions of Crazy Horse cuts and new numbers.

14. Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 (2008)

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14. ‘Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968’ (2008)

One of the earliest Archives Series entries, and one of the earliest Young performances released on record, Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 details a pair of Michigan shows from before his first solo album was out. Unsurprisingly, the songs lean on Buffalo Springfield tracks (“On the Way Home,” “Expecting to Fly,” “Broken Arrow”), but it’s the new songs that hit harder, particularly a definitive “Sugar Mountain.”

13. Live at the Fillmore East (2006)

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13. ‘Live at the Fillmore East’ (2006)

The first release in Young’s Archives Series is a bit haphazard: a six-song compilation of performances with Crazy Horse from a two-night 1970 stop at New York’s Fillmore East while supporting their debut, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Still, the music is some of their best, with long, torrid versions of “Down by the River” and “Cowgirl in the Sand” serving as concert anchors. It was their only tour with guitarist Danny Whitten.

12. Live at the Cellar Door (2013)

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12. ‘Live at the Cellar Door’ (2013)

Not long after the release of After the Gold Rush in 1970, Young played a handful of shows at the Washington, D.C., club the Cellar Door, revisiting his past (a stripped-down “Down by the River,” Buffalo Springfield’s “Expecting to Fly”) and road-testing new songs (Harvest‘s “Old Man”). He’s engaging and inquisitive throughout, at one point playing “Cinnamon Girl” on piano for the first time. It’s an intimate Archives Series offering.

11. Carnegie Hall 1970 (2021)

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11. ‘Carnegie Hall 1970’ (2021)

The first volume of the Official Bootleg Series subset collects a complete show from December 1970. It’s one of Young’s most engaging and intimate solo acoustic performances from the early ’70s, with a part nostalgic set (a mix of Buffalo Springfield songs and works originally recorded with Crazy Horse and others) that also looks forward: Songs from Harvest and later appear in embryonic form. It’s a vault highlight.

10. Way Down in the Rust Bucket (2021)

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10. ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket’ (2021)

Two months after Neil Young and Crazy Horse released Ragged Glory in 1990, they got ready for an epic arena tour with a warm-up gig at a small Santa Cruz, California, club. Way Down in the Rust Bucket compiles the show in a two and a half hour set that often rivals the tour document Weld in intensity. They seem just a song or two away from collapsing into feedback-drenched chaos. See the 13-minute “Like a Hurricane.”

9. Songs for Judy (2018)

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9. ‘Songs for Judy’ (2018)

In November 1976, Young and Crazy Horse went on tour, with Young opening the shows alone onstage. He played different songs each night; Songs for Judy collects the 23 he performed. Young is in good spirits throughout the run, joking, telling stories and generally having a good time during his warm-up sets. Tracks range from “Heart of Gold” and “After the Gold Rush” to the unreleased “No One Seems to Know” and “White Line.”

8. Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (2022)

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8. ‘Citizen Kane Jr. Blues’ (2022)

Recorded during a surprise 1974 performance at New York’s Bottom Line club and often bootlegged, Citizen Kane Jr. Blues allows Young to test most of the songs from the recorded-but-not-yet-released On the Beach in front of an unsuspecting audience. The result is an intimate and less fateful take on the doomiest of all Neil Young albums. Fans listen intently as he plays new songs, “Helpless” and the traditional “Greensleeves.”

7. Roxy: Tonights the Night Live (2018)

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7. ‘Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live’ (2018)

Tonight’s the Night was so dark that Young’s record company held onto it for two years before finally releasing it in 1975. Along with the Santa Monica Flyers (featuring a couple of Crazy Horse members), Young played some shows for the unreleased record; Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live collects a dozen songs plus stage banter. Less harrowing than its LP namesake, the live tracks are loose but not fragile and more focused here.

6. Young Shakespeare (2021)

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6. ‘Young Shakespeare’ (2021)

Young Shakespeare was recorded three days after the January 1971 concert preserved on Live at Massey Hall 1971, and their set lists are nearly identical, as are the tone and Young’s playfulness between songs. He was constantly workshopping new songs at the time — between career-best After the Gold Rush and his only No. 1, Harvest — and the solo acoustic readings give new life to favorites like “Down by the River.”

5. Unplugged (1993)

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5. ‘Unplugged’ (1993)

Young was in a career renaissance in 1993 when he recorded a performance for MTV’s Unplugged program, which unfurls like a brief history of his music, starting with “The Old Laughing Lady” from his solo debut and “Mr. Soul” and moving up through the recently released Harvest Moon, represented by three songs. It’s not all solo; others join him onstage to flesh out some numbers. It’s a fitting time capsule of the era.

4. Time Fades Away (1973)

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4. ‘Time Fades Away’ (1973)

Leave it to Neil Young to make his first live album a record containing previously unheard songs recorded during a tumultuous tour with the Stray Gators following a particularly turbulent period in 1973. Time Fades Away is no less brutal or exorcising than the celebrated LPs from the period, On the Beach and Tonight’s the Night. Audiences expecting a mellow night after Harvest‘s success were assaulted with beautiful noise.

3. Live at Massey Hall 1971 (2007)

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3. ‘Live at Massey Hall 1971’ (2007)

Producer David Briggs wanted the second release in the Archives Series to be an official live LP between After the Gold Rush and Harvest. It’s easy to hear why. Recorded during one of Young’s most creatively fertile periods, Live at Massey Hall 1971 documents a Toronto show where his past (Buffalo Springfield to solo to Crazy Horse) catches up with his future as he previews songs from Harvest, released 13 months later.

2. Live Rust (1979)

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2. ‘Live Rust’ (1979)

Recorded during the same tour that yielded Rust Never Sleeps, released five months earlier, Live Rust doubled as a soundtrack to Young’s 1979 concert film with Crazy Horse. Further, the album serves as a live journey through Young’s past, starting with an acoustic “Sugar Mountain” and moving through blitkreig versions of “The Loner” and “Powderfinger” before ending with a nine-minute, soul-cleansing “Tonight’s the Night.”

1. Weld (1991)

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1. ‘Weld’ (1991)

After a stubborn and often careless ’80s, Neil Young rebounded with the cautious Freedom at the end of the decade. By 1990’s Ragged Glory, though, he was ready to be great again. With truisty sidekicks Crazy Horse in tow, they recorded some of their sturdiest music in years and then went on the road to refine it even further. Weld is the result of the elongated tour, 16 tracks compiled from several shows over two months in early 1991 and featuring scorched versions of “Cortez the Killer,” “Powderfinger,” “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Like a Hurricane,” plus Ragged Glory epics “Love to Burn” and “Love and Only Love” (both clocking in at more than nine minutes). Companion disc Arc used the plentiful distortion and feedback from the tour, but Weld puts it in context — a pivotal moment in Young’s long history of live albums.

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