Home / Music / Greendale is Neil Young's small-town rock operaMusic linernotes album music neil-young-&-crazy-horseGreendale is Neil Young's small-town rock operaGreendale is a rock opera — a narrative concept album telling interconnected stories about characters in a fictional small town in Northern California. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesKurt Cobain quoted Neil Young's 'Hey Hey, My My' in his suicide noteHalf of Rust Never Sleeps came from Neil Young's Zuma sessionsRust Never Sleeps was recorded live at concerts with studio overdubs layered on topNeil Young held 'Powderfinger' back for years after writing it during the Zuma sessionsNeil Young expanded Greendale into a film and a stage productionExploreBlue Note's avant-garde series made room for Out to Lunch.Impulse! Records — a home for jazz and experimental music — released Pauline Oliveros' Dreamweave.Buddah Records launched Phyllis Hyman's debut in 1977.Physical Graffiti was Led Zeppelin's first album on their own label.Piñata came out on Madlib's own label, Madlib Invazion.Previous Half of Rust Never Sleeps came from Neil Young's Zuma sessionsNext Graceland was recorded in Johannesburg, New York, and Louisiana