Neil Young drives a 1956 Crown Vic back in time in Jonathan Demme's 'Neil Young: Journeys'
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"There's something about grown siblings on the property of the house where the family once lived -- later the house burned down -- to hear these guys still connected to it. That meant a lot to me when I saw it on camera."

Young's stories about growing up are interspersed with songs from his powerful 2011 Massey Hall performance. "[It's] the show I did when I was out on the road a year ago," Young said. "It was like a play."

"Most of the songs from the show are in the film. We rearranged them for the movie," Demme added. "It was interesting, too, because the way they were arranged for the show had a narrative feeling to it. But when we started editing the songs together, especially when we started juxtaposing them with the progress of the [trip], there was an invitation to move them around a little bit, and that was a lot of fun."

Demme said the back-and-forth between Young's filmed recollections and the Massey Hall performance added dimension to the songs, which include Young classics like "Out of the Blue" as well as newer songs like "Love and War" from 2010's "Le Noise."


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