Young announced that he’ll be releasing a new album, Talking to the Trees, with the Chrome Hearts
For the first time in nearly two decades, Neil Young performed his song “Silver and Gold,” sharing it in a video for his fans on Instagram.
Written in the early Eighties, “Silver and Gold” has only been performed by Young a rare handful of times on tour. Even after the track was released on the visionary singer-songwriter’s 2000 album, also titled Silver and Gold, Young hasn’t delivered many live renditions of the song. This most recent performance is the first time he sang the song for an audience since 2007.
In the video, Young said he’ll be releasing an album called Talking to the Trees and touring in both the United States and Europe with his new band, the Chrome Hearts. Notably, Rolling Stone named Young’s May performance with Crazy Horse in Queens, New York, one of the “10 Best Concerts of 2024.”
In a 2000 interview with KGSR Radio in Austin, Texas, Young explained about the song, “I tried it several ways. And it was such a nice, it’s just such a song, you know. It just kind of lives with the guitar. It’s just there.”
Young continued, “I really recorded, I think, a total of 11 times with different people in all kinds of different configurations. And we got ’em all, none of them are worth listening to. But this one here finally just got back to the roots of it and just sat down with my guitar and played it and said, ‘That’s it.’ Because I love the song and I feel the song now and it means something to me now.
