Lou Adler and Neil Young are making sure rust sleeps and doesn’t impinge on them.

Coming very soon is a 48 minute non stop acoustic performance by Young of some of his favorite archival songs. Young says it’s an eclectic take, but some of the songs are well known, like “Mr. Soul,” “Comes a Time,” and “Birds.”

The album, performed without a band, is produced by the legend himself, Lou Adler, who turns 90 in December. This is the Lou Adler who gave us Monterey Pop, the Mamas and the Papas, and Carole King’s solo career starting with “Tapestry.” He also produced “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” A couple of years ago, Adler produced Merry Clayton’s great comeback album, “Beautiful Scars.”

What’s the connection between Adler and Young? They have great taste in women! They’re married to the sisters Hannah (or I guess Hannah and her sisters). Adler has been married for 31 years to Page Hannah, younger sister of Darryl, who married Neil in 2018.

I used to keep up with Neil Young’s releases, but once he started his Archives and started putting out bootlegs and lost concerts, etc, I was overwhelmed. But this one sounds very appealing. Here’s the link for pre-orders.

If you’re in Washington DC tonight or Philadelphia this week, you’re in for a treat. The Fugees, with Wyclef Jean, Pras Michel, and Lauryn Hill are back. It’s their 25th anniversary tour.

On Thursday they played the second of two shows in the New York area, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Hill opens the show, then joins the Fugees for the main part of the show.

Hill plays the entirety of her one real studio album, the seminal “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” which remains a template for female hip hop. The more you listen to her, and view the production, it becomes clear that Hill missed a big opportunity either releasing more records of her own or reuniting with Wyclef and Pras. What could have been! Still, cuts a strong figure on stage even if she can’t seem to make a start time.

The Fugees’ original album, “The Score,” started it all back in 1996, and that part of the show is worth waiting for. The group revived the Roberta Flack record, “Killing Me Softly,” back in 1996. Wyclef Jean later became one of our top songwriters with songs like “Ready or Not” and “The Mask.” This show just highlights those two albums, although Wyclef would do well to perform some of his other hits from later on like “911” or “Gone till November.” He has a long list of them, in fact. But that’s for another night.

Meanwhile, it’s refreshing to hear hip hop from its truly innovative days by the real masters. Their musicianship is non-pareil, and original. They still sound fresh as the day they started.

If you grew up in the 70s and read album notes, you knew the names of Leland Sklar, Waddy Wachtel, Danny Kortchmar, and Russ Kunkel. They played on every James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, and Linda Ronstadt album, among others. They were to the 70s what Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew had been to the 60s.

Denny Tedesco, who made the very complex and rewarding documentary about the Wrecking Crew, has done the same with these guys. They call themselves Immediate Family now, and previously were named The Section by James Taylor.

We do learn in this film that Peter Asher, who’s the center of all things in classic rock, was the first to list their names on albums, making them famous to those paying attention. Other musicians were indeed paying attention and many are interviewed here including Carole, James, Linda, Phil Collins, (now Rolling Stones) drummer Steve Jordan, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Don Henley, and so on.

There are also interviews with the main guys, as well as other players in their circle including Val Garay and Craig Doerge.

“Immediate Family” is a nice companion piece to Alison Ellwood’s two part “Laurel Canyon” doc that played on Netflix that focused more on Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash. This film is more about the mechanics of how hits like “Fire & Rain” and “I Feel the Earth Move” were made, and why this particular quartet became ubiquitous because of their exceptional talents.

One thing you don’t get much of it anything personal about the Immediate Family — like whether they have families. Only toward the end is their an anecdote from the very articulate Wachtel about his mother. There’s nothing gossipy here either. For example, drummer Kunkel was married to singer Nicolette Larson (“Lotta Love”), engaged once to Carly Simon (who is strangely omitted from the film), and his original sister-in-law was Cass Elliott.

The most startling personal note come from Leland Sklar, the legendary bassist with a ZZ Top beard, who’s revered by the music world. Despite his huge successes, Sklar admits to a terrible lack of confidence, and maybe a desire to hide behind the beard. (He hasn’t seen his face since 1965.) Sklar says he hates it when people praise him in person, which is too bad.

Magnolia is screening “Immediate Family” on December 12th in theaters, and then releasing to streaming on December 15th.