On _Tough Love_ , Simon Joyner returns to the unimaginable heartache that shaped 2024’s _Coyote Butterfly_ , though these songs feel less starkly autobiographical and more willing to inhabit other lives and imagined voices. The grief still looms large, especially in the towering title track, but elsewhere Joyner moves through carefully observed vignettes with patience, detail, and a cruel kind of…

Simon Joyner’s 2024 album Coyote Butterfly ranks among the most simultaneously beautiful and devastating documents of its kind, a painfully raw and autobiographical account of the untimely death of Joyner’s son Owen. Since the early ‘90s, Joyner has been one of independent music’s most authentically independent artists, and while his poetic songs have never shied […]

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…

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.

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