All One Song :: Rosali on "I Don't Want To Talk About It"

Welcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

This week is going to be slightly different. This week, we’re talking about a song that was not written by Neil Young. Nevertheless, it’s a song that is very much a part of the Shakey multiverse: Danny Whitten’s “I Don’t Want To Talk About It,” which appeared on Crazy Horse’s debut LP in 1970. Danny Whitten, of course, was one of Neil’s key collaborators and musical soul mates before his untimely death in late 1972. A little while later that decade, Rod Stewart took “I Don’t Want To Talk About It” to the top of the charts. But it’s Whitten’s version that remains definitive.

Here to guide us through the impossibly lonesome landscapes of “I Don’t Want To Talk About It” is singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman—or just Rosali if you prefer. She’s been a longtime fixture over at Aquarium Drunkard. But even though we've loved pretty much everything she’s done, she somehow seems to get better with each new album. Her latest release, Bite Down on Merge Records, may well be her best effort yet. And that’s saying something! It’s packed with exceptionally well-crafted songs that feel as if you’ve known them your whole life. An instant classic, as they say.  

Bite Down is Rosali’s second album with the Omaha-based Mowed Sound, which features David Nance, James Schroeder and Kevin Donahue. As we speak here in August 2025, Rosali and Mowed Sound are touring the USA, and I strongly encourage you to go see them. They’re a terrific live act … and there are definitely plenty of Crazy Horse vibes, as we discuss.

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