Neal Casal – Everything is Moving / Green Moon : Listen

This morning I had a dream about literally getting a message from Neal – I dreamed that I got an Instgram DM and I thought, “hmm this probably isn’t actually him but wouldn’t it be nice if you could DM from beyond the pale?” Before I got to read the message, my eyes shot open. I immediately looked at my phone, and the first thing I saw was this email about Neal’s final recordings being released.

Neal started working on these songs years ago but left them unfinished. Over the past year, Jeff Hill, Jon Graboff, John Ginty, George Sluppick, Jena Kraus, JP Hesser and Jim Scott came together to add parts and complete the mixing. The songs are both available today on all DSPs.

Ray Foley, the filmmaker behind the hard-to-find Anytime Tomorrow, directed the video for “Everything is Moving,” featuring never-before-seen footage from throughout Neal’s career with the addition of footage from the “White Fence Round House” video that Piper Ferguson shot.

Recording on “Everything is Moving” began in 2013 in Williamsburg with Jon Graboff on acoustic guitar, Jeff Hill on bass, and Joe Russo on drums. In July of this year, Graboff returned to play electric guitar and pedal steel, John Ginty piano and Hammond B-3, bass by Hill and harmonies by Hill and Jena Kraus.

Neal began recording “Green Moon” in 2016 at Castaway 7 Studios in Ventura, laying down lead and background vocals, acoustic and electric guitars and piano. Jeff and George Sluppick would add bass and drum tracks respectively to the original recording in October 2020 to complete the song.

“Working on these songs has been truly cathartic for me as I continue to process the loss of my dear friend,” explains Jeff Hill. “Neal writes in ‘Everything Is Moving,’ ‘I am just a shadow on the wall, you won’t even think of me at all.’ As much as Neal’s lyrics can be eerily prophetic of the tragedy to come, he was wrong. So many of us will be thinking of Neal for decades to come.”

The songs will be released as a 7″ through Royal Potato Family on February 26th but you can pre-order it now. All proceeds benefit the Neal Casal Music Foundation whose mission you can learn about here.