![]() So this is far from a controlled acoustic space. Sunlight streams through the spaces in the wall. GONYEA: We get to go inside thanks to a documentary film that you've also released, a film about the making of the album shot by your wife, the actor-director Daryl Hannah. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Just on the floor. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: It goes on the riser. And it's a historic place with a great vibe and surrounded by Rockies. It's restored to exactly the way it was when it was built in, like, 1850, 1860 or something. And I walk through a great valley with the Rockies behind me. ![]() YOUNG: Well, the way I get to the barn, I walk for a couple of miles through some aspen forest and then down past an old windmill and a couple of lakes with my two dogs. Can you just set the scene for us of this beautiful barn? Maybe even start by taking us up the driveway and then on inside. So to say you recorded this album in a remote place is very much an understatement. Neil Young joins us now to talk about all of this. It was recorded in a 19th century barn high in the Rocky Mountains. GONYEA: Its title is "Barn." And we're to take that literally. NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE: (Singing) I'm waiting for the boys to bring the truck in. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THEY MIGHT BE LOST") The future is the new music he's making, like the album he and his longtime collaborators, the band known as Crazy Horse, have just released. The past is his massive online archive, chock-full of recordings and unreleased live performances. Songwriter Neil Young is standing in the present while looking both to the past and the future.
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