 BURBANK, CA (Reprise Records) - Neil Young will appear on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" on December 17th, performing music from his Grammy Award-nominated " Prairie Wind" album. The recent album has been receiving accolades since its release in September, and is cited on many critical lists as one of 2005's best albums of the year. In the Grammy announcements on Dec. 8th, Young received nominations for Rock Album of the Year for "Prairie Wind" and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "The Painter" from that album. Co-produced by Young and Ben Keith, "Prairie Wind" was recorded last spring in Nashville, using musicians from that city's A-list of players, including keyboardist Spooner Oldham, bassist Rick Rosas, drummers Chad Cromwell and Karl Himmel and special guest vocalist Emmylou Harris. In August, Young performed two nights at the historic Ryman Auditorium. Both concerts were filmed by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme for Paramount Pictures. The feature-length movie is scheduled for an early 2006 release.
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