Saturday, March 19, 2016

Steve Young, RIP


     He released 14 albums even though he never cared to be on the road to ensure stardom. Steve Young, who passed away this week in Nashville, TN, was all right with that. He had the respect of his peers, which was enough for him. The link details the incredible artists with whom he worked.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/steve-young-dead-died-20160318


     Young also wrote "Lonesome, On'ry, and Mean", recorded by Waylon Jennings. Waylon paid Steve the supreme compliment by saying (I paraphrase), that Waylon would commit homocide if Steve kept writing songs that good.

     I probably heard Ian Matthew's cover of the song before the Eagles version, because I remember thinking to myself, "Ihe Eagles took the song from Ian Matthews" or something equally as profound.
   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2IFaCwTKk

     But it's not a testosterone thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzwxaWndY4  The Carter Sisters knock it out of the park, too.

    A few years back I wrote a poem entitled "Twelve Bridges Road," because that's how many there were on a drive I used to make regularly. In the back of my mind was this song.





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