The band was set to perform ten more shows through September
Neil Young + Crazy Horse has canceled the remainder of its 2024 Love Earth Tour due to illness. Young shared on his website on Wednesday (June 26th) that unnamed band members fell ill following their May 22nd performance in Detroit.
“The Love Earth Tour has been a great experience for us so far. GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC. WE HAVE HAD A BLAST!” he writes. “When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Know, we had to stop. We are still not fully recovered, so sadly our great tour will have a big unplanned break. We will try to play some of the dates we miss as time passes when we are ready to rock again! We know many of you made travel plans and we apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your understanding and patience. Health is #1. We want to stay and do more shows and more albums for you… and for us.”
Canceled dates include seven Canadian shows in July and three US concerts in September which included The Hollywood Bowl, the Ohana Fest in Southern California, and the Bourbon & Beyond Festival in Kentucky.
The band will release Early Daze, a collection of the group’s earliest recordings from 1969 with several original versions that have not been released, on Friday, June 28th via Reprise Records. The song line-up includes some of the most iconic originals by Neil Young and several with contributions by band guitarist Danny Whitten. It is Young’s first band after the breakup of Buffalo Springfield and set one of the high marks of rock & roll at the end of the 1960s when all these songs were written.
The set also features the seven-inch mono mix that was released in 1970 featuring a guitar outro, not on the LP version not on the original LP version. All the songs on Early Daze sound and feel like a new beginning for where rock & roll was going at the end of the 1960s. The tide was turning on some of the psychedelic experimentation of the San Francisco bands, and moving towards a style of intricate songwriting and bands that were able to take the beginnings of folk-rock and find new ways to let it explode in different settings. Neil Young with Crazy Horse was leading the charge in this completely expressive style of new music. It opened doors for a wide variety of new styles and allowed a whole generation of musicians to find a new way forward. In many ways, that achievement is still growing.
