Primal Young

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After a seven-year absence from the studio, country-rock "outlaw" Steve Young (writer of Waylon Jennings's "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean") has scored a spectacular return to form with this gorgeously sung, intriguingly varied collection. Young moves from knockout to knockout here, nailing his primordial mountain-music rant "East Virginia," the exclamatory protest "Worker's Song (A Handful of Earth)," and even an unearthly, slow take of Lloyd Price's classic R&B tune, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," before turning down the flame for a heart-wrenching stroll through Merle Haggard's "Sometimes I Dream." He even gets in a little honky-tonkin' on Tom T. Hall's "The Year Clayton Delaney Died." His own ballad, "No Longer Will My Heart Be Truly Breaking," displays not only his voice--which has never sounded better--but also the eclectic, blues-folk-country songwriting style that's made him impossible to categorize but nearly puts him in a class by himself. --Robert Baird

Primal Young,Steve Young,Appleseed Records,"As a writer, Steve [Young] is in a league with Dylan and Hank Williams - and he sings like an angel." - Lucinda Williams,Country & Western,Country-Folk,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Pop,Progressive Country

Average customer rating: There are no Blues in this Riot City great dumb rock Great CD, Combining the Best Elelemts of the Group's Past Work love the way this band never stands still... From Progressive to Regressive.

Riot City Blues Primal Scream Manufacturer: Sony / Bmg Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Give Out But Don't Give Up XTRMNTR Screamadelica Sonic Flower Groove The Good, the Bad & the Queen ASIN: B000FG5Q1W Release Date: 2006-06-27

Tracks:

1. Country Girl
2. Nitty Gritty
3. Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar
4. When the Bomb Drops
5. Little Death
6. 99th Floor
7. We're Gonna Boogie
8. Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll)
9. Hell's Comin' Down
10. Sometimes I Feel So Lonely

Album Description

Riot City Blues' is Primal Scream's follow-up album to the electro-tinged 'Evil Heat', although it could easily be compared in style and content to their 1994 masterpiece 'Give Out But Don't Give In'. Bluesy, punky swagger and New York Dolls-esque melodies abound, marking this album out as a more organic affair than Bobby Gillespie & Co's previous two albums. Includes the single 'Country Girl'.Recorded at London's Olympic Studios and produced by former Killing Joke bassist Youth. This offering from Bobby Gillespie and the boys, which includes the single 'Country Girl', features guest contributions from Will Sergeant (Echo & The Bunnymen), Warren Ellis (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) and Alison Mosshart (The Kills). Sony/BMG. 2006.

Album Details

Primal Scream have Made their Boldest Statement Since 1990's Era Defining "Sreamadelica". The Brilliantly Reviewed Show at the Astoria in London Confirmed that the Likes of the Single "Country Girl", "Dolls" and "Suicide Sally" Are Classics that Will Be Burned Into Our Consciousness Every Bit as Much as "Movin' on Up", "Rocks" and "Loaded". The Timing of this Record is Perfect as the Scream Show the Second Wave Brit Poppers What it Really is all About. Maximum Rock 'n' Roll for the 21st Century! Primal Scream, after 20 Years of Being One of the Music Influential Bands in Britain, Present their Most Commercial Album to Date. Laid Down Live on the Studio Floor at London's Olympic Studios, it was Produced by Youth and features and Impressive Supporting Cast - Will Sergeant from Echo and the Bunnymen, Warren Ellis of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Alison Mosshart from the Kills. "Riot City Blues" is the Album You Always Hoped Primal Scream Would Make.

Customer Reviews:

There are no Blues in this Riot City.......2007-01-20

Ahh, Primal Scream. Back to rock music, and back to original band spelling.

Bobby Gillespie and his men are just like the mystery bag, you never know what type of album youll get next from them. They seems to bounce into different genres every album now from rock, to electro, to metal to dance etc...so...which one is this one?

Riot City Blues (album title is a slight giveaway) is just a strong, fullblooded rock n roll record. This aint a Primal first...(remember Screamadelica follow up Give Out, But Dont Give Up?) and i highly doubt it will be the last either. This nonsensical brash rock n roll should be on future Scream albums - and thank god for that

This is a solid album straight from the word go, wtih the hit singles Country Girl and Dolls giving a real insight into the album. Not to mention the bluesyness of Suicide Sally and Johnny Guitar..i think we know who that song may be dedicated to..

Elsewhere, the specials guets (Warren Ellis, Will Sergent, Alison Mosshart) all shine, imparticular Will on the strong, guitar heavy "When the Bomb Drops. Another album highly.

I close by saying..

This another top Primal Scream album. Thats all you need to know really. [...]

great dumb rock.......2006-09-25

I have been looking forward to this one for a long time. I saw Primal Scream play a few years ago in San Francisco. It was an okay show. The audience was there to see Underworld. I ran into Bobby Gillespie at a show at the Hollywood Bowl. I guess he was in town mixing the record with Dave Sardy. This record is a back to basics. There are no electronics. No Stooges meet Krautrock. No mixes by Kevin Shields. The lineup of the band is a little different. It's a little raw and a little like Exile on Main Street. This is in evidence with the first single "Country Girl." This is country rock in high style. "Nitty Gritty" is more Stones influenced rock. One of the best songs is "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar." Roots rock meets hard rock. "We're Gonna Boogie" reminds me of The Kills. Alison Mosshart from the Kills sings on a few songs. "Dolls" is a real glam rock song. This is a pretty good record. It's a great mix of roots rock, Stones obsessions, and good old time rock and roll. There is no electronic weirdness and sound collages. This is a party album. It should go down well. Bobby Gillespie was sort of obscure a few years ago. But with the help of the Internet, he is like considered one of the coolest people ever.

Great CD, Combining the Best Elelemts of the Group's Past Work.......2006-09-10

With tracks that range from country-esque to stompin' crankers, this CD is well worth the money. While the music is diverse, almost every track stands on its own.

A huge fan of "Sreamadelica" back in the day, I nearly gave up on the band after the "Vanishing Point" CD, and I viewed "EXTRMNTR" as a very uneven work (flashes of brilliance intermixed with headache-inducing nonsense). But if you liked "Give Out But Don't Give Up" (I love that CD), then you should be happy with this one. Again, very diverse stuff, but rock solid all aound.

love the way this band never stands still..........2006-08-12

there's very few bands that can shift gears quite like Primal Scream. from Screamadelica to Give Out... to XTRMNTR, these guys are always changing their spots. Riot City Blues leans mostly towards Give Out...(minus the P-Funk influence) with its "Rocks Off" attitude, yet still has a sound all its own. Standout tracks: Suicide Sally, Little Death, 99th Floor and
the New York Dolls nod Sweet Rock n'Roll...

From Progressive to Regressive........2006-08-05

This is far the worst album from english previously called progressive alt-rock band. The only two songs that matters here with some signs of their past work are When The Bomb Drops and Little Death. Everything else is a silly honky tonky rock'n roll that has not far from Country American Music.

Average customer rating: Another honest Steve Young release This grew on me you need Primal Young solid and satisfying Steve Yount at its best.

Primal Young Steve Young Manufacturer: Appleseed Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Renegade Picker/No Place to Fall Lonesome On'ry & Mean Switchblades of Love Songlines Revisited, Vol. 1 Seven Bridges Road ASIN: B0000488TO Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

1. Jig
2. Scotland Is A Land
3. Worker's Song (Handful Of Earth)
4. East Virginia
5. Blackland Farmer
6. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
7. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
8. Sometimes I Dream
9. Heartbreak Girl
10. No Longer Will My Heart Be Truly Breaking
11. Little Birdie

Amazon.com

After a seven-year absence from the studio, country-rock "outlaw" Steve Young (writer of Waylon Jennings's "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean") has scored a spectacular return to form with this gorgeously sung, intriguingly varied collection. Young moves from knockout to knockout here, nailing his primordial mountain-music rant "East Virginia," the exclamatory protest "Worker's Song (A Handful of Earth)," and even an unearthly, slow take of Lloyd Price's classic R&B tune, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," before turning down the flame for a heart-wrenching stroll through Merle Haggard's "Sometimes I Dream." He even gets in a little honky-tonkin' on Tom T. Hall's "The Year Clayton Delaney Died." His own ballad, "No Longer Will My Heart Be Truly Breaking," displays not only his voice--which has never sounded better--but also the eclectic, blues-folk-country songwriting style that's made him impossible to categorize but nearly puts him in a class by himself. --Robert Baird

Customer Reviews:

Another honest Steve Young release.......2003-01-18

If you like Steve Young go out and get this offering. It has real substance. Some music gives up it's joy immediately and some over a long period of time. These songs endure and only increase in their rewards. I particularly love Sometimes I dream and Backland farmerand anyone who can do Clayton Delaney and make it sound fresh has my vote.Steve is a troupadour, a wandering minstral who plies his craft with honesy and integrity. Go and see him live. He's great

This grew on me.......2000-06-08

I've been a fan of Steve Young's, like for-EVER, honest-to-God, I first saw him at the "Young Folk" Sunday afternoon show at the Newport Folk Festival in 1969. I scoured Chicago for my first copy of the A&M record "Steve Young" (now re-issued). Got to know Steve through the years. As a young man, he was brilliant, funny and self-destructive, and terribly handsome. Now, as a not-as-young man, he is brilliant, funny, mega-creative and terribly HANDSOME.

I offer 4 stars for this review only because I've heard Steve with a-little-stronger vocal presence on past recordings, but hey, ANY musical offering from Steve Young is a gift.

These songs are Celtic in flavor and pure Young in execution. Time has not weakened that beautiful voice, or his great guitar playing, if anything, his performance has more depth now than ever.

We are just so fortunate to have Steve still recording. He remains an example of how good Americana music can be, but not in the same way as anybody else.

you need Primal Young.......2000-05-08

Primal Young sneaks up on you. It's got a quiet, transcendant effect. Steve Young sounds like a person who has been there and back again and he's sharing some of his wisdom with us less evolved souls. These songs represent a great range in content and emotion. The single-minded rage expressed in "Worker's Song" hits you right between the eyes -- this is no hackneyed, mushy politically/socially conscious song like so many out there. "Heartbreak Girl" is a sad and poignant love song. "Jig", "Scotland Is A Land" and "Blackland Farmer" express a quiet joy, a coming into your own kind of feeling, accepting the limitations and beauty of life. Steve Young's affinity with Merle Haggard songs is evident in his interpretation of "Sometimes I Dream". He has turned this song into a new classic. It's a masterpiece (check out a similarly masterful rendition of Haggard's "Shopping For Dresses" on the Merle Haggard tribute record, "Tulare Dust"). Steve Young's wall of sound voice will pull you under and soothe you like a driving lullaby. It's powerful, lasting medicine. I have long been a fan and this recording does not disappoint.

solid and satisfying.......2000-03-07

The years and a longtime, though ultimately triumphant, struggle with a road musician's occupational hazards have taken the edge off Steve Young's once nearly perfect voice. Still, on his best album in a long time, he sounds pretty good, and he suffers only by comparison. Primal Young, though not Seven Bridges Road (the early-70s masterpiece in whose shadow Young will forever stand), is a satisfying collection of originals, covers, and creative takes on the tradition. It starts with the Young composition "Jig," which listeners may confuse with a lost Townes Van Zandt song; at points Young's voice even sounds like the late Texas troubador's. Like much of the material to follow -- in which Young sounds like himself -- it has an appealing Celtic lilt, surprising when you consider that in many ways Young has the voice of a soul singer; yet he knows what he's doing, and he always makes it work. His slowed-down, country-blues reading of Lloyd Price's r&b hit "Lawdy Missy Clawdy" unexpectedly transforms it into something like a variant of the traditional "Corinne, Corinna." Other high points -- there are no low ones -- include Merle Haggard's "Sometimes I Dream," Frankie Miller's "Black Land Farmer," and amazing interpretations of the Appalachian songs "East Virginia" and "Little Birdie." Back in the late 1960s Young virtually invented the country-folk genre, and he shows us here that he's still among its masters.

Steve Yount at its best........2000-02-25

All Steve Young records are touching. But this one is heart-warming, wonderful, a great album. The lyrics, combined with the music and the art of singing: everything is just how it has to be in the best case. A real singer-songwriter with an enormous talent and with a brain and a heart in his body. I really hope that all you, reading this, will buy this cd.

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Primal Young ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00003GPNN Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

1. Jig
2. Scotland Is A Land
3. Worker's Song (handful Of Earth)
4. East Virginia
5. Blackland Farmer
6. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
7. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
8. Sometimes I Dream
9. Heartbreak Girl
10. No Longer Will My Heart Be Truly Breaking
11. Little Birdie

Album Description

1999 solo album by this great outlaw country guitarist/ singer/ songwriter. 11 tracks. Lending a hand on the record are an eclectic mix of musicians, including Van Dyke Parks, Al Wolovitch (Peter Himmelman), J.C. Crowley (Player, Starship) and Kim Young. Consists of both originals and covers, including versions of tunes by Lloyd Price, Merle Haggard, Frankie Miller and Tom T. Hall.

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Road to Freedom (Ltd. Ed. 2-CD version) +4 track EP remixes Young Disciples Manufacturer: Talkin' Loud ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000RYPPEU

Product Description

1993 limited edition 2-CD US version of "Road to Freedom" by Young Disciples. Comes with US version of album plus "Apparently Nothin' (Remix EP)". TRACKLISTING: 1. Get Yourself Together Part I & II, 2. Apparently Nothin' (Soul River), 3. Funky Yeh Funki (Mek It), 4. Talkin' What I Feel (feat. Master Ace), 5. All I Have (Young Ideas Mix), 6. Move On (feat. The J.B.'s - Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker & Pee Wee Ellis), 7. As We Come (To Be) (feat. Paul Weller & The J.B.'s), 8. Step Right On (Original Mix - feat. M.C. Bello), 9. Freedom Suite: I. Freedom, II. Wanting (feat. I.G. Culture), III. To Be Free, 10. Young Disciples Theme (feat. M.C. Mell'O'); BONUS DISC: 1. Apparently Nothin' (Edit) 3:57, 2. Apparently Nothin' (Soul River Edit) 3:53, 3. Apparently Nothin' (The Re-Rub Edit by Nellee Hooper for Wildbunch Productions) 3:37, 4. Apparently Nothin' (Large Professor Rap Mix feat. Large Professor) 4:07. Mick Talbot of The Style Council plays keyboards/piano/moog/etc throughout the album. Co-engineered by Brendan Lynch for Lynch Mob Productions (Ocean Colour Scene, Primal Scream, Paul Weller) at Solid Bond Studios in 1991.

Average customer rating: drumming ambience

Sacred Rhythms for a Sacred World, Vol. 1 Steve Barden, Eddie Young Robin Taylor Manufacturer: Robin Taylor Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJSFQ Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

1. Sunrise
2. Perfect Light
3. Promise
4. Ray

Customer Reviews:

drumming ambience.......2005-12-13

I have been to many yoga workshops that offer live music and drumming to suit yoga flow. This recording is just like having those musicians in your studio or home for yoga practice or dance. Rhythmic, but soothing, not distracting. Nice combination of percussion, keyboard, cymbal and string. Some may say repetitive, but you need to count on that even movement in the music to connect to your yoga, not a lot of extraneous sound to distract you. Paced nicely for a yoga session, begins slowly and builds slightly in pace, but not to a frenetic level. Contemplative and smooth. Enjoy.

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