Neil Young "Ramada Inn"

I'm filling in for Barbara Dacey on Friday night, for her show "Uncharted Waters."

Usually, it's a plum gig.  Barbara spends a full hour playing new releases, and when I fill in, it's my chance to champion some of the great new music out there.

But this is perhaps the worst week of the year to have to host the program.

Record labels basically take the month of December off.  The last new releases of the year hit around mid-November, and little to nothing comes into the station until the 2nd week of January.  The few that come in do get played on Uncharted Waters over the course of the month.  But by the first Friday night of the new year, every new song has been played.

So I have an hour to fill, and literally not enough new songs to fill it.

Unless . . .

One of the independent promoters I talk to, JB Brenner, has mentioned this Neil Young cut to me a couple of times.  Not because he's promoting it---he's not.  Just because he's a Neil Young fan.

He thinks it's one of Neil's best songs in a long, long time.  He even put in a call to Neil's record label rep, to suggest they put it out as a single.

But to do that, the label would have to make an edit.  Because no station is going to play a single that is nearly 17 minutes long.

No station, except . . .

Yes, the final third of tonight's "Uncharted Waters on mvyradio" will be one very, very long Neil Young tune.

And if you are at work and you have a lot of time to kill, you can enjoy it now in the video below!


Hear the song on Youtube.