Vinyl Record
Neil Young - Homegrown
Neil Young - Homegrown on LP vinyl. A 2020 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2020
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2020 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Homegrown is the Neil Young album that lived as legend for nearly half a century before finally arriving in 2020. Recorded largely in 1974 and 1975, during one of Young's most fertile and wounded periods, it was once close to release before he withdrew it and moved toward Tonight's The Night instead. That backstory is not trivia; it is built into the way the record feels. Separate Ways, Try, Mexico, Kansas and Vacancy carry the hush of a breakup record that has not yet hardened into mythology, while Homegrown and We Don't Smoke It No More keep a looser country-rock pulse in the room. The album sits near On The Beach, Zuma and the songs that later surfaced across Young's 1970s catalogue, but it has its own emotional weather: private, plainspoken, lightly disordered and intimate enough to sound almost intercepted. Heard after decades of absence, Homegrown is less a missing masterpiece than a recovered diary from the exact years when Neil Young's contradictions were at their most human.
Homegrown matters because it returned a crucial missing chapter from Neil Young's mid-1970s run, clarifying how personal rupture, country warmth and raw studio immediacy fed the albums around it. Its 2020 release changed the map of a period listeners thought they already knew.
For collectors, Homegrown is essential because it is both archival and emotionally central: a shelved 1970s album that finally became a modern vinyl-era title. It belongs beside On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma as part of the troubled, brilliant stretch after Harvest.
Intimate mid-1970s Neil Young with country-rock looseness, acoustic confession, ragged band touches, breakup stillness, occasional barroom swing and the feeling of songs left close to first impact.
Recommended for: Neil Young collectors filling the lost-album gap in the 1970s run; Listeners drawn to quiet breakup records with country-rock grain; Fans of On The Beach, Tonight's The Night and Zuma-era emotional weather.
When was Homegrown recorded and released? Homegrown was recorded mainly in 1974 and 1975, then shelved for decades before its official release in 2020. Why is Homegrown known as a lost Neil Young album? It was prepared during Young's mid-1970s peak but withdrawn before release, with some songs becoming known later in other forms. Which tracks define Homegrown? Separate Ways, Try, Vacancy, Kansas, Mexico and Homegrown show the record's mix of private heartbreak and loose country-rock movement.