Simon Joyner is this week’s guest on our Neil Young podcast, All One Song — but he’s not just that! With his friends the Nervous Stars, he also recorded a new Lagniappe Session for us … and it’s all Neil Young songs! What a gift. Simon, of course, is one of our greatest singer-songwriters, with a deep discography stretching back to the early 1990s. He’s one of those guys who just seems to get better with age; to wit, his upcoming album Tough Love is one of his very best, a deeply felt collection that feels timeless and timely all at once. We’ll have more to say about it in the upcoming weeks, but for now, enjoy Simon and the Nervous Stars tackling some of Neil’s very best.
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All One Song :: Simon Joyner on “After The Gold Rush”
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.
Simon Joyner :: Songs From A Stolen Guitar
Simon Joyner, who recently turned fifty, has been quietly making records for a small cult of dedicated fans since 1990. Hovering above the intersection of chaos and beauty, the Omaha-based songwriter’s vivid and imagery-rich songs occasionally recall Leonard Cohen at his most personal and apocalyptic, while always revealing Joyner’s affinity for the fearless, unpredictable sounds of the noise and experimental scene on which he cut his teeth.
Simon Joyner :: Pocket Moon
Working in tandem with producer/guitarist Michael Krassner, Pocket Moon features ace contributions from drummer Ryan Jewell, multi-instrumentalist Joshua Hill and guitarist Max Knouse, among others. Together, the ensemble creates an easygoing but rich tapestry, subtly and sensitively boosting the roughhewn melodies and ruminations. The overall result is one 2019’s best LPs – and a career highlight for Joyner.
Simon Joyner :: Low Fidelities & Infidelities
Fans perusing Simon Joyner’s merch table on his recent U.S. tour could pick up a new collection of demos, covers and collaborations from the severely underrated Omaha, NE singer-songwriter. Luckily for the rest of us, Simon has now made it available via his Bandcamp page — and even better, all digital proceeds are going towards “abortion access organizations in states that recently passed laws attempting to outlaw or severely restrict abortion access.”
Parachutes Are For Deserters: An Interview With Simon Joyner
I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in my Chuck Taylors and say that Simon Joyner is every bit the songwriter Townes Van Zant was. To me and many other appreciators of fine songwriting, Joyner’s status […]
Simon Joyner :: Ghosts
There is something squarely stubborn about releasing a vinyl-only double record in 2012. In an industry currently dominated by mixtapes and playlists, modern music consumers increasingly lack the attention span required to sit through one […]