Neil Younger has confirmed he’s ‘not prepared’ to play Farm Support once more amid the pandemic.
The annual profit live performance, which goals to assist household farms in America, was first organised by Neil alongside Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp in 1985.
The singer’s been taking part in the occasion for many years, however missed it final 12 months and has confirmed he gained’t be there once more this 12 months resulting from Covid-19 fears.
Responding to a letter on his web site, Neil, 76, defined: ‘I cannot be at Farm Support this 12 months.
‘I'm not prepared for that but. I don’t assume it's protected within the pandemic. I miss it very a lot. Love, be nicely. Neil.’
Through the years, the live performance has taken place in varied states throughout the USA, and this 12 months’s is because of happen on September 24 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Final 12 months, Neil made headlines after writing an open letter to Spotify stating he would pull his whole catalogue in the event that they didn’t take motion in opposition to the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast, which allegedly featured ‘faux details about vaccines’ in its episodes.
In his letter, Neil slammed Joe for spreading ‘faux details about vaccines – probably inflicting demise to those that consider the disinformation being unfold by them’.
Comic-turned-MMA commentator Joe, 54, is behind Spotify’s hottest podcast, with an estimated 11million listeners per episode, and has confronted criticism for his views on the Covid-19 vaccine, together with him beforehand urging ‘younger, wholesome’ individuals to not get jabbed.
Nonetheless, Neil addressed his supervisor Frank Gironda and Warner Data co-chairman Tom Corson within the letter, and stated Spotify ‘has a duty to mitigate the unfold of misinformation on its platform.
Spotify later agreed to take away Neil’s music.
In a press release supplied to The Hollywood Reporter on the time, a Spotify spokesperson stated: ‘We would like all of the world’s music and audio content material to be obtainable to Spotify customers. With that comes nice duty in balancing each security for listeners and freedom for creators.
‘We've got detailed content material insurance policies in place and we’ve eliminated over 20,000 podcast episodes associated to Covid for the reason that begin of the pandemic.’
They added: ‘We remorse Neil’s resolution to take away his music from Spotify, however hope to welcome him again quickly.’
On the time of writing, just a few of Neil’s songs are on the streaming platform, seemingly as a result of they characteristic on soundtracks or information launched by different entities.
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