All One Song - “After the Gold Rush” with Simon Joyner

All One Song - “After the Gold Rush” with Simon JoynerPretty much every All One Song guest complains about one thing: having to pick just one Neil Young song. And yeah, it’s a catalog of such consistency and strength that it can feel virtually impossible to have a single 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 I’ve often wondered … what is Neil Young’s favorite Neil Young song? Maybe it’s always 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. I’m guessing it’ll make it to 700 in no time. He’s rarely left “Gold Rush” out of setlists for very long over the decades — it’s definitely…