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Born in Brantford Ontario, Neil's country music roots were nurtured growing up on the family farm near Burford, Ontario. Neil began singing as a young boy in the choir in the small rural church that he attended with his family in nearby Mount Vernon. He began writing songs and playing guitar as a teenager going to high school during the legendary 1950’s Country rockabilly era and the dawning of Rock and Roll. Living now in Paris Ontario only a few short miles from where he was born and grew up, Neil found it the perfect place to embark on his life-long dream to record an album of his original material and to begin writing his long-postponed novel. From tumbleweeds drifting along old Route 66 and flashy 1950’s convertibles to rusted-out flatbed trucks and walking down railway tracks, it is hard not to picture Johnny Cash here. Even more so with Neil's self-effacing western lilt and a soft southern drawl influenced in part during his teens while toiling in summer sun-baked Southern Ontario tobacco fields alongside his co-workers from the Carolina’s and Georgia. A nominee at the 2012 Hamilton Music Awards for Alt/Country Recording of the Year for his second CD album "What Difference Will It Make" released in 2012, and at the 2008 Hamilton Music Awards for New Country Recording of the Year for his debut CD album "No Looking Back" released in 2007, Neil was also a recipient of the Golden Kayak award for Best Country Song 2007 – “The Cowboy Song" at the 2008 IAIA (International Academy of Independent Artists) Awards. Neil's debut CD album "No Looking Back" included two songs that he had written while in high school in 1959 – “Got Nothin’ To Lose” and “There’s Just The One And Only You.” “The Restless Wind” and “The Cowboy Song” on his debut CD album reached # 1 on the CASHBOX Country chart. Neil was honoured to be named on the front cover of the July 1, 2007 CASHBOX Magazine as one of the "awesome Indies gracing our Independent Charts every week". Both of Neil’s CD albums "No Looking Back" released in 2007 and "What Difference Will It Make" released in 2012 as well as his Christmas single “That’s What Christmas Means To Me” released in December 2010 were recorded at Rayne Records in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are available at CDBaby.com and iTunes and at other digital download sites. They are available in Canada at HMV.ca and Amazon.ca as well as at other retail outlets serviced by Indie Pool in Toronto. Type Neil w Young in the respective Search fields. A Western Ontario Secondary School Honour Athlete in 1960 and graduate of Burford District High School and Waterloo Lutheran University (now known as Wilfred Laurier University) in 1964, Neil also claims to hold a hard earned PhD and Masters Degree from the “University of Life”. Neil purposely spells his name, Neil w Young, with his middle initial “w” always appearing in the lower case with no period following it. He maintains an internet presence on various web sites including: www.neilwyoung.com www.myspace.com/neilwyoung www.music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Neil-w-Youn g www.soundcloud.com/neilwyoung www.facebook.com/neilwyoung www.twitter.com/neilwyoung www.music.cbc.ca/#/bands/Neil-w-Young- The-Legendary-Bear-Creek-Band

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