Long May You Run Neil Young, Harmonium version

[Jean Pierre]

I found on YT this live version of Neil Young's "long May You Run" only with his harmonium (which he has in all his shows on stage) and his harmonica

I found a few years ago, in a flea market, an old harmonium, in working condition that I bought for a very low price

It is an Estey harmonium, made in Battleboro, Vermont around 1900




I don't use it too often because it is not in my musical attic

[Bluesberry]

I have always loved this song........a love song to one of his many vehicles...great haunting version

[Zoltan]

We used to have a harmonium when i was young. I used to try to play the Halloween theme with that. Unfortunately i didn't take it further...

Still the connection to all things harmonium related has stayed. If i'd get one now i would probably have to move and live under a tree as there's not enough space... And i would probably still continue playing the Halloween theme...

So it's better to left harmoniums to all these great harmonious players like JP! A gentle and moody performance that sounds like you rather than Neil Young. Well done!

[StephenM]

this sounds great JP... cool photo and backstory as well... "Long May You Run" you have played superb.
creative as well..
this sounds awesome... I love bellow powered instruments.

[Mike_S]

Don't know this one by Neil Young. It is lovely though. Great to hear you playing yet ANOTHER instrument very well indeed. Yes, great sound, very nicely done JP. Long may you run sir.

Mike

[Jean Pierre]

Thanks Mike, that's nice...I'm in the middle of a CSNY revival

[Great to hear you playing yet ANOTHER instrument[/quote]

yes, in fact I made it that way because I saw a video of Neil Young playing it alone, live at one of his shows
It must be said that in the 80s and 90s Neil Young always had on stage his old harmonium with which he usually played "Like a Hurricane", that's how I saw him in Lyon




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6K-mhKZRY

[Greeny (No longer active)]

This is very lovely, JP. Such a beautiful, emotional warmth to those chords - and your vocals. Amazing stuff.

I'd love to know the story of that harmonium and how / why it made it's way to France from Vermont at the turn of the century. Quite a tale I'd imagine! It's lived through 2 wars and all kinds of change. Very touching.

[Jean Pierre]

Thank you Greeny, yes indeed it is very touching this harmonium was built in Battleboro in North Carolina then a Swiss exporter in Zurich sold it without doubt to a bourgeois family of Zurich (the harmonium in the years 1900 was often part of the furniture of the bourgeois family

...then unfortunately I don't know its route to end up in a rather shabby flea market in the suburbs of Lyon, where I found it by chance and acquired it for a really derisory price (a few dozen euros)

 and since then it is at home where it will surely stay for some time because my daughter (a little musician like me) is attached to this instrument

indeed a beautiful story, and even if I don't play it very often, I love it

[Blooby]

Wow,that harmonium sounds gloriously melancholy on this track. I am used to tiny ones that sound much more tinny. This was great.

Blooby

[chapperz66]

Beautiful rendition, JP.  And a fabulous instrument.

Really enjoyed it.

Paul