All One Song :: Simon Joyner on "After The Gold Rush"

All One Song :: Simon Joyner on "After The Gold Rush"

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May 6, 2026 · 1h 13m

About this episode

Tyler Wilcox discusses Neil Young's song 'After The Gold Rush' with various guests, exploring its significance and popularity.

Hello and welcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with your host Tyler Wilcox, a longtime Aquarium Drunkard contributor and Neil Young fanatic. And I’m guiding you through a second season of talking with some of our favorite musicians, writers and artists about their favorite Neil Young song. Pretty much every one of our guests complain about one thing: having to pick just one Neil Young song. His is a catalog of such consistency and strength that it can feel virtually impossible to have just one favorite. So as a disclaimer, all of our guests could’ve chosen maybe a dozen other songs. Or more. We just cruelly forced them to whittle it down to one. But we wonder: what is Neil Young’s favorite Neil Young song? Maybe it’s just the newest song he’s written. But if you look at songs that Neil’s performed most over the years…well, maybe that’s a clue of some kind. “After the Gold Rush” is certainly up there in terms of live outings; the crucial Neil head website sugarmtn.org tells us that, as of today, he’s played it 698 times since its debut in the fall of 1970. He’s rarely left “Gold Rush” out of setlists for very long over the…

People in this episode

Host: Tyler Wilcox

Topics covered

  • Neil Young
  • music analysis
  • song discussion
  • artist interviews
  • favorite songs

Keywords

  • Neil Young
  • After The Gold Rush
  • music podcast
  • song analysis
  • Aquarium Drunkard

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aquarium Drunkard, sugarmtn.org

Books & works: After The Gold Rush

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