Transmissions All One Song :: Jason P. Woodbury on "When Your Lonely Heart Breaks"
Welcome back to All One Song, a Neil Young podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. We’ve spent the summer talking with some great musicians and writers about the strange and wonderful Neil Young universe. And we’ve had a good time. But all good things must come to an end!
After today’s episode, we are handing the keys back to Jason P. Woodbury, the host of Transmissions and editor of Aquarium Drunkard. — he’s got an incredible season of interviews coming your way as summer turns to fall.
And hey, our final guest on All One Song is none other than Jason P. Woodbury! Jason is the guy who has been running a lot of the behind the scenes action for All One Song over the past couple months.
Transmissions is a consistently fantastic listen, packed with insight, wit and wisdom. The fact that Jason juggles about 50 other cool projects, from his music as JPW to his expanding WASTOIDS empire, makes it even more impressive.
We're already talking about more All One Song, but before that … we’ve got one more episode. All One Song has gone all over the place when it comes to Neil eras. But we haven’t delved too much into the 1980s. Jason is righting that wrong. He selected a tune from the generally un-loved 1987 LP with Crazy Horse, Life — “When Your Lonely Heart Breaks.” This aching ballad was played a lot in 1986 and 1987, briefly revived in the mid 1990s and then pretty much forgotten by its author. But maybe Neil will bring it back … just this past weekend, he just played “Long Walk Home” from Life for the first time since 1989 on his current North American tour. Anything can happen in Shakeyland!
Neil’s producer David Briggs called “When Your Lonely Heart Breaks” “a monster song—it should’ve been the ‘I Believe In You’ of the eighties for Crazy Horse—so pure, so simple. But they had no desire to make anything out of it, never played it good, never put anything special into it. It was a shame.”
We’ll have to agree to disagree, David! Anyway, we use “When Your Lonely Heart Breaks” to drift back into a lot of different zones, from David Lynch to Michelob Lite. It’s always fun and provocative to chat with him. So without further ado, here’s Jason P. Woodbury on All One Song …
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