“Talking about birds blacking out the entire sky so that it got dark on the ground. I mean, there were that many birds. When was the last time somebody saw that?”

This week we dug into the World Cafe archives for our 2005 interview with Neil Young, recorded around the release of his album Prairie Wind. He helped set the scene for us by discussing his upbringing in rural Ontario. Listen to it above, and listen to the entire interview here.