NEIL YOUNG WINS A GRAMMY... HIS FIRST?!?

Two nights after NARAS honored Neil Young at their annual MusiCares Person Of The Year event, Neil just won his first Grammy. Ever. He's never won one before. What? It's true. He won it for The Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 for Best Boxed or Limited Edtiion Package. Well, he and his team deserve it for sure.  The Archives is the first of the new wave of box sets.  The catch is, you have to have a lot of content, and fans who really, really, really want to hear it to put out a box set like this.

By the way, at the MusiCares event, Neil noted that he has written a few songs for his next album.  I'm not a huge fan of his last one, but the one before that, Chrome Dreams II, was really good. I never give up on Neil, you never know when he'll unleash another classic, and I think he's due for one.

MORE ARTISTS ADDED TO NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE CONCERT

Last month, I wrote about the lineup of artists that will be performing at the NARAS MusiCares 2010 Person Of The Year ceremony, paying tribute to Neil Young. They've just announced that Elton John has joined the bill, along with T-Bone Burnett, Leon Russell, Patty Griffin and country-pop group Lady Antebellum. So far, no one has mentioned that The Red Hot Chili Peppers won't be there, so maybe this might be their first performance with new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

In other Neil news, the Archives Vol. 1 isn't his only box set out!  He has quietly released remastered versions of his first four solo albums: 1969's Neil Young, 1969's classic Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (featuring Crazy Horse), 1970's classic After The Gold Rush and 1972's classic Harvest. You can get a box set with all of them on vinyl.