Eddie Vedder and Fiona Apple confirmed for Neil Young tribute album
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(Credits: Raph Pour-Hashemi)
Eddie Vedder and Fiona Apple join twelve artists paying tribute to Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young across a new covers record, Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young.
Young, 72, formerly of folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, is best known for the critically acclaimed albums Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush and Harvest, the latter of which featured the country rock hit ‘Heart of Gold’, which gives the new tribute album its name.
On the upcoming release, Pearl Jam frontman Vedder will cover ‘The Needle and The Damage Done,’ while award-winning art pop artist Apple will take on the tribute record’s title track.
Other musicians covering Young’s most notable tracks include Mumford and Sons, Brandi Carlile and Sharon Van Etten.
Ahead of the tribute album’s release, Australian singer-songwriter and musician Courtney Barnett dropped her spin on Young’s ‘Lotta Love’, and US multi-instrumentalist Chris Pierce covered ‘Southern Man’.
The tribute album will benefit The Bridge School, a Californian non-profit organisation that supports children with severe speech and physical impairments. From 1986 to 2016, Young and his ex-wife Pegi Young organised the Bridge School Benefit, an annual charity concert that helped to fund the school. Young announced in 2021 that he would also release historic recordings of the fundraisers via his archives and that all the proceeds would further fund The Bridge School.
Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young will be released in two parts. The first, Volume 1, will be released on April 25th, 2025.
Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Volume 1 tracklist:
- Brandi Carlile – ‘Philadelphia’
- Fiona Apple – ‘Heart of Gold’
- Mumford & Sons – ‘Harvest’
- Eddie Vedder – ‘The Needle and The Damage Done’
- Courtney Barnett – ‘Lotta Love’
- Stephen Marley – ‘Old Man’
- Sharon Van Etten – ‘Here We Are In The Years’
- Lumineers – ‘Sugar Mountain’
- The Doobie Brothers with Allison Russell – ‘Comes A Time’
- Steve Earle – ‘Long May You Run’
- Rodney Crowell – ‘Mr. Soul’
- Anders Osborne – ‘Cowgirl in the Sand’
- Charlie Greene – ‘Such A Woman’
- Chris Pierce – ‘Southern Man’
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