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14. Why are you knocking Neil Young? He's doing right by us

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5719533/farm-aid-2013-pete-seeger-sings-out-neil-young-speaks-up-and-jack-johnson-cows

September 23, 2013

After a solo round on his banjo for "If I Had A Hammer" -- with thousands of backup singers -- Seeger welcomed Farm Aid's guiding foursome: Nelson, Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews for "This Land Is Your Land."

Seeger's compatriots smiled with glee as they shared the stage with the aging but energetic singer, who declared, "I've got a verse you've never heard before."

"New York is my home
New York is your home
From the upstate mountains
Down to the ocean foam
With all kinds of people
Yes, we're polychrome
New York was meant to be frack free!" ...

"The farmers are on the front lines of climate change, and climate change is THE issue of the 21st century," said Young at a press conference which opened the day-long event. "It's a bigger way of looking at what we're all doing here. It's about getting the carbon out of the sky and back into the earth."


http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/VoteUp/2013/09/24/dave-matthews-neil-young-pete-seeger-knock-fracking-at-farm-aid/2862783/

Matthews, who has made near-annual trips to SPAC with his band since the 1990s, was the first to broach the topic, acknowledging farmers who held anti-fracking signs in the front of the audience during a panel discussion that kicked off the event.

“Don’t frack New York. Don’t frack our farmlands,” Matthews said to applause. "And if you really need to frack something, why don’t you go frack yourself?”

At one point on stage, Young wore an orange t-shirt underneath his trademark red flannel. It had a clear message: “Keep calm and ban fracking.”