Ragged glory: Neil Young brings four decades worth of rock dreams and innovation to the Palace

Not many in rock music (or outside it, for that matter) have had a career like Neil Young, who started out as a teenage folkie in Toronto clubs in the mid-1960s and drifted westward to Los Angeles to chase down the hippie dream as a member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.    

Young was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1982. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: first in 1995 for his solo work and again in 1997 as a member of Buffalo Springfield.

He has also directed four movies under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey: Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979) Human Highway (1982), and Greendale (2003).

For one weekend each October, he and his wife host the Bridge School Concerts in Mountain View, California. The concerts are a benefit for the Bridge School, which develops and uses advanced technologies to aid in the instruction of children with disabilities. Young's involvement stems at least partially from the fact that both of his sons have cerebral palsy and his daughter, like Young himself, has epilepsy.

Young's latest CD/DVD release, Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968, which was recorded 40 years ago in Ann Arbor, is out this month.

Wilco formed in 1994 and released their debut album A.M. in 1995. The band won Grammy Awards for A Ghost Is Born (2004) for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package. Wilco’s most recent album, Sky Blue Sky was released in 2007 and peaked at number four on Billboard’s 200 Top-Selling Albums chart.

At The Palace of Auburn Hills Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. For ticket info go here.