We’re delight­ed to spread the word about Heart Of Gold Vol­ume 1, a com­pi­la­tion of Neil Young cov­ers per­formed by artists includ­ing The Doo­bie Broth­ers, Eddie Ved­der, Mum­ford & Sons, Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Bran­di Carlile and many more. The album was released on April 25th.

The project is by Los Ange­les-based pro­duc­tion house, Cin­e­ma Music Group (CMG) and is rais­ing mon­ey for The Bridge School—a pio­neer­ing non­prof­it that helps chil­dren with severe speech and phys­i­cal impair­ments through assis­tive tech­nol­o­gy. CMG was found­ed by long­time friends and col­lab­o­ra­tors Dave Resnik and Niko Bolas. With decades of expe­ri­ence between them, they’ve worked with some of the biggest names in music, from Neil Young to Mavis Sta­ples to Don Hen­ley, and share a deep belief in cap­tur­ing music the old-school way: live in the room, min­i­mal takes and max­i­mum feeling.

In 2021, after recon­nect­ing at a friend’s wake, Dave and Niko launched CMG with the goal of reimag­in­ing clas­sic songs and pro­duc­ing new music with both estab­lished and emerg­ing artists. They quick­ly became known as “the cov­er guys,” work­ing out of their LA stu­dio The Surf Shack and part­ner­ing with tal­ents like Chris Pierce and Char­lie Greene.

Their lat­est project is Heart Of Gold Vol­ume 1, a com­pi­la­tion of Neil Young cov­ers per­formed by artists includ­ing Fiona Apple, Bran­di Carlile, The Doo­bie Broth­ers, Eddie Ved­der, Mum­ford & Sons, and many more. What began as a one-off ses­sion with Chris Pierce turned into a full-scale ben­e­fit project with Neil’s bless­ing, sup­port­ing The Bridge School, a pio­neer­ing non­prof­it that helps chil­dren with severe speech and phys­i­cal impair­ments through assis­tive technology.

Each artist on the album per­son­al­ly chose the song they cov­ered, and near­ly every track was record­ed in just one or two takes, giv­ing the record an inti­mate, live feel. Thanks to a dis­tri­b­u­tion deal with Kill­phon­ic Rights, CMG has already raised $100,000 for The Bridge School, with Vol­ume 1 out now, and Vol­umes 2 and 3 on the way.

Hearts of Gold Vol­ume 1. Neil Young Com­pi­la­tion album. Vinyl avail­able here
Cin­e­ma Music Group