There are multiple artists using the name Steve Young.
1. Steve Youn… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists using the name Steve Young.
1. Steve Young (July 12, 1942 – March 17, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for his song "Seven Bridges Road" (on Rock Salt & Nails & Seven Bridges Road). He was a pioneer of the country rock, Americana, and alternative country sounds, and also a vital force behind the "outlaw movement" that gave support to the careers of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr. and more. Young was also featured in the 1975 Outlaw Country documentary Heartworn Highways. He was the subject of the song "The All Golden" by Van Dyke Parks. Young's first album, Rock Salt & Nails, on A&M, was performed on and supported by Gram Parsons, Gene Clark and other musicians from the 1969 musical community in Southern California.
Steve Young has never fit comfortably into categories. He follows his own musical and spiritual quest, weaving together Southern roots with a wide experience of life, and creating new traditions in American music.
Young was born in Georgia and grew up in Alabama, Georgia and Texas in a family which moved frequently in search of work. By the time he had completed high school in Beaumont, Texas, he was playing guitar and writing songs which incorporated influences of folk , country , gospel, and blues musicians and people like Hank Williams , Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and others. Once as a teenager he was blown away by seeing Carlos Montoya , a Flamenco Guitarist. He managed to use that too!
By his late teens, Young was back in Alabama, where he established some reputation on the local music scene. However, the wandering spirit soon took over again. He immersed himself briefly in the Greenwich Village folk scene, at a time when Bob Dylan and others were just being noticed.
Returning to Alabama, Steve found that "my New York folk-protest songs didn't fly in the South." Searching for more receptive audiences, he made short forays to California and other locations before moving to the West Coast in 1964.
In California, he worked with musicians like Van Dyke Parks and Stephen Stills, at one point holding a day job as a mailman. A major-label record deal led to a short-lived stint with a psychedelic country-folk band, Stone Country.
Settling into a solo career, Steve Young became an integral part of the movement which defined the California country-rock sound. Appearing on Steve's 1969 classic album, Rock, Salt & Nails were fellow pioneers like Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon and Gram Parsons.
Through 12 albums and countless live performances, Steve Young's music has remained fresh and aggressive, with a sense of deepening spirituality, and a consistent intellectual and artistic challenge, to himself and to his audience.
Many of the stars of the music industry have recorded Steve Young songs, and in some cases forged a career image around them. "Lonesome, Orn'ry & Mean," for example, became the signature tune for 'Outlaw' Waylon Jennings. Hank Williams Jr.'s cover of "Montgomery In The Rain" remains a classic.
Certainly the most-covered Steve Young song of all is "Seven Bridges Road," which has been recorded at various times by artists like Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, Ian Matthews, the Eagles, Ricochet, and, most recently, Dolly Parton.
While Steve Young songs have brought commercial success to others, Young has never been close enough to the mainstream to sustain his occasional brushes with stardom . He has been unwilling to accept the loss of artistic control that the industry expects of its stars.
And while Steve has lived in country music towns like Nashville and Austin, and his songs have had a strong impact on the direction of country music, he rejects the country label for himself. Young is in many ways a cultural dynamic in himself.
Part Cherokee (from his father) by birth, steeped in Baptist fundamentalism as a child, yet attracted to a Zen spirituality, the young man from the South with a nomadic spirit went on to create a unique form of American roots music with a truly global perspective.
Steve Young has literally toured the world. He has performed in many countries of Europe, in Australia and New Zealand, in Micronesia, China and Mongolia, in Egypt and East Africa and beyond. Wherever he has gone, he has filled the dual role of ambassador for American music and student of the cultures of others.
Young's live performances express the depth and power of his vision. He draws on his own songs, on Southern folk songs from varied traditions, on collaborations and on the best of contemporary songwriters such as J.D. Loudermilk, David Olney and others.
Steve passed away on March 17, 2016 at age 73
2. 'Steve Young' is also a pseudonym of Peter Friel, ambient tape musician.
1. Steve Youn… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists using the name Steve Young.
1. Steve Young (July 12, 1942 – March 17, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for his song "Seven Bridges Road" (on Rock Salt & Nails & Seven Bridges Road). He was a pioneer of the country rock, Americana, and alternative country sounds, and also a vital force behind the "outlaw movement" that gave support to the careers of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr. and more. Young was also featured in the 1975 Outlaw Country documentary Heartworn Highways. He was the subject of the song "The All Golden" by Van Dyke Parks. Young's first album, Rock Salt & Nails, on A&M, was performed on and supported by Gram Parsons, Gene Clark and other musicians from the 1969 musical community in Southern California.
Steve Young has never fit comfortably into categories. He follows his own musical and spiritual quest, weaving together Southern roots with a wide experience of life, and creating new traditions in American music.
Young was born in Georgia and grew up in Alabama, Georgia and Texas in a family which moved frequently in search of work. By the time he had completed high school in Beaumont, Texas, he was playing guitar and writing songs which incorporated influences of folk , country , gospel, and blues musicians and people like Hank Williams , Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and others. Once as a teenager he was blown away by seeing Carlos Montoya , a Flamenco Guitarist. He managed to use that too!
By his late teens, Young was back in Alabama, where he established some reputation on the local music scene. However, the wandering spirit soon took over again. He immersed himself briefly in the Greenwich Village folk scene, at a time when Bob Dylan and others were just being noticed.
Returning to Alabama, Steve found that "my New York folk-protest songs didn't fly in the South." Searching for more receptive audiences, he made short forays to California and other locations before moving to the West Coast in 1964.
In California, he worked with musicians like Van Dyke Parks and Stephen Stills, at one point holding a day job as a mailman. A major-label record deal led to a short-lived stint with a psychedelic country-folk band, Stone Country.
Settling into a solo career, Steve Young became an integral part of the movement which defined the California country-rock sound. Appearing on Steve's 1969 classic album, Rock, Salt & Nails were fellow pioneers like Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon and Gram Parsons.
Through 12 albums and countless live performances, Steve Young's music has remained fresh and aggressive, with a sense of deepening spirituality, and a consistent intellectual and artistic challenge, to himself and to his audience.
Many of the stars of the music industry have recorded Steve Young songs, and in some cases forged a career image around them. "Lonesome, Orn'ry & Mean," for example, became the signature tune for 'Outlaw' Waylon Jennings. Hank Williams Jr.'s cover of "Montgomery In The Rain" remains a classic.
Certainly the most-covered Steve Young song of all is "Seven Bridges Road," which has been recorded at various times by artists like Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, Ian Matthews, the Eagles, Ricochet, and, most recently, Dolly Parton.
While Steve Young songs have brought commercial success to others, Young has never been close enough to the mainstream to sustain his occasional brushes with stardom . He has been unwilling to accept the loss of artistic control that the industry expects of its stars.
And while Steve has lived in country music towns like Nashville and Austin, and his songs have had a strong impact on the direction of country music, he rejects the country label for himself. Young is in many ways a cultural dynamic in himself.
Part Cherokee (from his father) by birth, steeped in Baptist fundamentalism as a child, yet attracted to a Zen spirituality, the young man from the South with a nomadic spirit went on to create a unique form of American roots music with a truly global perspective.
Steve Young has literally toured the world. He has performed in many countries of Europe, in Australia and New Zealand, in Micronesia, China and Mongolia, in Egypt and East Africa and beyond. Wherever he has gone, he has filled the dual role of ambassador for American music and student of the cultures of others.
Young's live performances express the depth and power of his vision. He draws on his own songs, on Southern folk songs from varied traditions, on collaborations and on the best of contemporary songwriters such as J.D. Loudermilk, David Olney and others.
Steve passed away on March 17, 2016 at age 73
2. 'Steve Young' is also a pseudonym of Peter Friel, ambient tape musician.
Rock Salt & Nails
Steve Young Lyrics
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs On the banks of the river, …
We have lyrics for these tracks by Steve Young:
Alabama Highway I'm Riding Down by Your old Shack Today I'm Riding Down…
All Her Lovers Want To Be The Hero Now she might hang in the barrooms And sleep with men…
Always Loving You The evening is lonely babe And the dead of night is…
Ballad of William Sycamore And some are wrapped in the linen so fine And some…
Broken Hearted People Now broken hearted people always seem to drink And tryin' t…
Come Sit By My Side Come and sit by me Grace Let me talk to you…
Dreamer Hey I’ve been a drifter Almost all my days The ways…
Drift Away Day after day I'm more confused Yet I look for the…
Gonna Find Me a Bluebird Gonna find me a bluebird Let him sing me a song Cause…
Hoboin When I first started hoboin' 'Boin', 'boin' You know I took …
Hoboin' When I first started hoboin' 'Boin', 'boin' You know I too…
Holler in the Swamp Did you think you could speak of a wonder Of the…
I Begin To See Design The days are getting longer Till the whistle blows at 5:00 …
I Can't Be Myself It's a way of mine to say just what I'm…
I Can't Hold Myself In Line I'm going off of the deep end And I'm slowly losing…
I Can't Sleep Last night I stayed up late to watch the sunrise It…
I Closed My Heart's Door You come and you go like waves on the sand And…
I'm a One Woman Man If you told me that you loved me I'd feel…
If My Eyes Were Blind If my eyes were blind the darkest night would never…
It's Not Supposed To Be That Way It's not supposed to be that way You're supposed to know…
Jig There's a jig in my mind I hear it all the…
Kenny's Song I used to see the birds fly So high in the…
Light Of My Life Light of my life tell me what you want to…
Lonesome On'ry And Mean On a Greyhound bus Lord I'm travelin' this morning I'm goin…
Long Way to Hollywood Babe, I hate to leave you down here In this…
Love in My Time Yeah I want to sing a song that's on my…
Love Song Loca (Loca) Loca Dance or die Loca (Loca) She′s playin' dum…
Many Rivers If the Lord ever looks down from heaven If I…
Montgomery In The Rain WELL HERE I AM AGAIN DOWN IN MONTGOMERY ALABAM MY LUCK…
My Oklahoma Stars out in the morning And the still rustle of corn What…
My Sweet Love Ain't Around Listen to that rain a-fallin' Can't you hear that lonesome …
No Place To Fall If I had no place to fall And I needed to Could…
One Car Funeral Procession Yesterday as I was walking I saw a sight that left…
Ragtime Blue Guitar I play the ragtime blue guitar I play it near and…
Ramblin' Man I can settle down and be doin' just fine Til' I…
Renegade Picker Yeah, I was born down in Dixie And I grew…
Rock Salt and Nails By the banks of the river where the willows grow…
Rockin' Chair Money Now I got rockin' chair money But I got it the…
Sally Goodin' Had a piece of pie an' I had a piece…
Scotland is a land Scotland is a land That ever nourished me Long before I re…
Seven Bridges Road THERE ARE STARS IN THE SOUTHERN SKY SOUTHWARD AS YOU GO…
Shelter You I guess you don't need it I guess you don't want…
Sweet Thing Sweet thing I'm writing this letter to you Your name will…
That's How Strong My Love Is If i was the sun way up there I'd go with…
The White Trash Song I wake up every morning , About the break of dawn Hear…
Tobacco Road I was born in a bunk Mama died and my daddy…
True Note It's not my true note It's way too blue Yet I sing…
We've Been Together On This Earth Before We've been together on this earth before Down in New Mexico…
White Trash Song I wake up every morning , About the break of dawn Hear…
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@JHarder1000
One of the most shamefully under-rated geniuses in the history of popular music.
@drb000
Such a beautifully strong voice. Those notes he holds just cut through your bones.
@nightimelady
Jesus this guy was good. When this album is playing it feels like the best record in the world.
@tippimail1
From one of the best albums of all time.Every cut is genius.Recorded with an all star cast-James Burton on Dobro[if you don't know who he is,shame on you]!!
@henryoosterwyk1569
so much SOUL in his music fantastic
@donniemaxwell6864
Love this take, damn what great music Steve Young put out...
@randyelliott9152
written by none other than Bruce Utah Phillips....
@blackholeentry3489
@Randy Elliott Thanx....never knew that.
@richardvaughan9994
I’m very confused as to why this doesn’t have 100 million views??? Ahh well I guess I’ll rack up a couple million on it myself. Pure fkn gold. I’m 30 years old and I couldn’t wish more that I could have been born in the 50s and 60s
@whatdupdoh
Richard Vaughan just getting into him myself and I already covered a song on my channel lol ...he's great.