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Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Plenary, Melbourne, Australia, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Plenary, Melbourne, Australia, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Neil Young Resurrects Blowing In The Wind For Germany

by Paul Cashmere on June 3, 2013

in Live,News

Neil Young & Crazy Horse played the rarely performed Bob Dylan cover ‘Blowing In The Wind’ at the first show of their European tour in Germany last night.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Plenary, Melbourne, Australia, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Plenary, Melbourne, Australia, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Young’s version of the Bob Dylan song was a regular piece on the 1991 Smell the Horse tour. It was documented on the ’91 live album ‘Weld’.

Since 1991 the only other times Young has performed the song were on October 20 and 21, 2001 for a Bridge School concert.

In total, he has only ever performed ‘Blowing In The Wind’ 57 times, including at last’s nights show in Berlin.

The setlist for Neil Young & Crazy Horse from Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2013 was:

Love and Only Love (from Ragged Glory, 1990)
Powderfinger (from Rust Never Sleeps, 1979)
Psychedelic Pill (from Psychedelic Pill, 2012)
Born in Ontario (from Psychedelic Pill, 2012)
Walk Like A Giant (from Psychedelic Pill, 2012)
Hole In The Sky (new, unreleased)
Heart Of Gold (from Harvest, 1972)
Blowing In The Wind (from Weld, 1991)
Singer Without A Song (new, unreleased)
Ramada Inn (from Psychedelic Pill, 2012)
Fucking Up (from Ragged Glory, 1990)
Cinnamon Girl (from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969)
Mr Soul (from Buffalo Springfield Again, 1967)
My My Hey Hey (from Rust Never Sleeps, 1979)

Like A Hurricane (from American Stars and Bars, 1976)

The next Neil Young and Crazy Horse show is tonight (June 3) in Hamburg, Germany.

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