All One Song :: Zachary Cale on “Ambulance Blues”

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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