Here to talk about “Berlin” with us today is someone we've been fans of for a long time now—the mighty ⁠Matt Valentine⁠. MV has been making beautiful noise for over three decades now, from ⁠Tower Recordings⁠ to ⁠MV & EE⁠ (with his partner Erika Elder) to various solo excursions and collabs. For the past decade, Matt’s primary focus has been Wet Tuna, which also features Erika and bassist Jim Bliss. The latest Tuna LP is called ⁠Vast⁠ — and you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a better title for this collection of strange and funky flights.

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Here to help us unpack "Barstool Blues," one of the many classics on Zuma, is Matt Sweeney. Sweeney is one of those guys who is impossible to sum up. He’s a musician who has been a part of so many great bands, projects and records over the years—Superwolf, Chavez, Guided by Voices, the Hard Quartet, Iggy Pop, Current 93, Cass McCombs, Andrew WK…the list goes on and on. He’s a consummate collaborator, perhaps the only person alive to have played with both Johnny Cash and Endless Boogie, with both the Dixie Chicks and Baby Dee, with both Adele and Six Organs of Admittance.

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We have got a doozy of a Neil Young song to talk about today — “⁠Ambulance Blues⁠." First appearing as the closing track on Neil’s 1974 masterpiece On the Beach, this is one of the man’s major works, a long, dark dirge that surveys the surreal mid-1970s landscape, from Patty Hearst to Richard Nixon, all accompanied by a brilliantly skeletal musical backdrop. Here to help us decode the mysteries and metaphors of “Ambulance Blues” today is NYC-based singer-songwriter ⁠Zachary Cale⁠.

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Here to plumb the depths of “From Hank To Hendrix” today is Texas-based singer-songwriter Jerry David DeCicca. Like Neil Young, Jerry’s songs are often made out of seemingly simple materials, but the more you listen to them, the deeper they become, simplicity transforming into something wonderfully complex. For example, one of his best songs deals with the cosmic pleasure of watermelons.

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Released in 1981 on Re*ac*tor, “T-Bone” is perhaps the most boneheaded, monomaniacal tune in Neil Young’s entire discography, a grinding, nine-minute three-chord Crazy Horse jam that features only these words to guide us: “Got mashed potatoes, ain't got no T-bone.” Our guest today is far from boneheaded, however. ⁠Matthew Specktor⁠ is a novelist, a memoirist, a critic, a screenwriter, an editor and much more.

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Welcome back to All One Song. Today, our guest is Simon Joyner, discussing "After the Gold Rush." The Omaha-based singer-songwriter has a career stretching back to the early 1990s; you might call him a songwriter’s songwriter—at least he’s got a ton of peer admiration. To accompany his all Neil Young Lagniappe Session, he joins us to talk Shakey.

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This week, Micah Nelson⁠ drops into Aquarium Drunkard's Neil Young podcast to talk "Change Your Mind." Since 2014, Nelson has served as one of Neil’s closest collaborators, playing guitar first in the Promise of the Real, then in Crazy Horse, and now in the Chrome Hearts. He’s toured all over the globe with Young, delivering epic, deep-cut heavy sets. During that time, he’s appeared on such records as The Monsanto Years, Earth, The Visitor, Fuckin’ Up, and last year’s Talkin to the Trees.

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For his appearance on All One Song, AD and Recliner Notes contributor Scott Bunn picked a truly deep cut: ⁠“Boom Boom Boom.”⁠ This is a song that you might know better … though not much better…as ⁠“She’s A Healer,”⁠ which closed out Neil’s 2002 LP Are You Passionate?, recorded with Booker T and the MG’s. But “Boom Boom Boom” is the original Crazy Horse version of the song, which was cut in the year 2000.

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And here to talk with us about “Thrasher” is ⁠James Jackson Toth⁠, a terrific songwriter whose career matches Neil in terms of eclectic, exploratory and highly personalized vibes. He’s been a man of many monikers over the years; there are records under his own name, there are records under the ever-morphing Wooden Wand designation; there’s DUNZA, there’s James and the Giants, there’s One Eleven Heavy and more. Whatever you end up checking out, you’re guaranteed to be transported to strange, funny and powerful places. The man who has a "What would Neil Young do" tattoo weighs in.

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Neil Young's "Albuquerque." A Ditch Era classic, it was recorded with the Santa Monica Flyers in 1973 and released on 1975's Tonight's the Night. Like the Southwestern town its named for, "Albuquerque" is stark, beautiful, and lonesome—leaving in its wake melancholy and a craving for fried eggs and country ham. Joining us to discuss the various landscapes of "Albuquerque" is Brigid Mae Power. Since her debut a little over a decade ago, the Galway-based singer songwriter has built up a visionary and cosmic discography. Tune in as we explore the contours of yet another number in the ever-rolling "All One Song" saga.

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