Live Rust
Corduroy Plants, directed by Daryl Hannah, documents Young’s 2025 tour with the Chrome Hearts, and features classics like “Ohio,” “Like a Hurricane,” and “Cortez the Killer”
A couple of months after releasing the live LP As Time Explodes, which chronicles his 2025 summer tour with the Chrome Hearts, Neil Young has quietly released a free companion concert film, Corduroy Plants, on the Neil Young Archives. The hourlong, 11-song film centers around most of the songs from As Time Explodes, but lacks “After the Gold Rush” and “Looking Forward.”
Like many of Young’s recent films, Corduroy Plants was directed by his wife, Daryl Hannah. It’s unclear where exactly the individual performances were filmed, and Hannah occasionally cuts from the stage to show footage drawn from recent news events and moments throughout history.
During the Greendale epic “Be the Rain,” for example, news footage of the destruction of the East Wing of the White House is shown, along with brief clips of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. “Vampire Blues” is paired with footage of devastating oil spills, migrant workers are seen toiling in fields during “Like a Hurricane,” and images of World War II and the Holocaust are seen in “Cortez the Killer,” along with more recent conflicts.
