Omnivore's new Steve Young 3CD set boasts 34 unissued live tracks!

Check out a couple of Steve Young's live recordings from the 3CD set Stars In The Southern Sky out now via Omnivore. 

Here's the scoop from Omnivore Recordings...

Singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Steve Young (1942-2016) was a pioneer of “country rock” and of “outlaw country,” two movements that transformed mainstream country music and impacted other genres of American popular music.

Several generations of artists—country music’s new traditionalists during the 1980s, alternative country acts in the 1990s, as well as those associated with Americana music in the current century—broadened their audiences by merging country music with elements of other music genres. All those musicians have been indebted to Young and such contemporaries as Gram Parsons and Gene Clark, who collectively demonstrated how to integrate country music with other music genres (rock, pop, folk, blues, R&B, bluegrass, and gospel).

Young, a Southerner, recorded more than a dozen distinctive albums, but none was more fully realized than his 1975 album Honky-Tonk Man. Recorded at the acclaimed Minneapolis studio Sound 80 and released by Mountain Railroad Records, a small independent label based in the Upper Midwest, Honky-Tonk Man documented the musical world of a complex if largely misunderstood artist during the peak of his powers.

Now, Honky-Tonk Man returns (also available in its original form on vinyl for the first time in three decades) as part of Stars In The Southern Sky—a 3-CD/Digital collection highlighting that monumental 1975 era. Packaged in a slipcase, featuring a 40-page booklet with rare photos and new liner notes from Honky-Tonk Man Producer Stephen Powers and Ted Olson (who both oversaw the set.) The whopping 47-track set contains Honky-Tonk Man, “Stanley And Henry” (Young’s collaboration with Jim Post from Post’s 1978 I Love My Life album) and 34 previously unissued live tracks including standards and original material including Young’s classic “Seven Bridges Road” (a 1980 hit for the Eagles using Iain Matthews’ Michael Nesmith produced version as a template, and also covered by Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, Rita Coolidge and more.)

So, revisit the origins of Country Rock, Outlaw Country, and Americana. Sit back and enjoy the Stars In The Southern Sky! Get a copy of the Steve Young's Stars In The Southern Sky 3CD set right here. Check out two live performances following the tracklisting and the teaser trailer below. 

 

Steve Young – Stars In The Southern Sky

DISC 1 – HONKY-TONK MAN:

HONKY-TONK MAN

BRAIN CLOUDY BLUES

ROCK SALT & NAILS

ROCKIN’ CHAIR MONEY

RAMBLIN’ MAN

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN

TRAVELING KIND

SALLY GOODIN’

ALABAMA HIGHWAY

VISION OF A CHILD

WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH BEFORE

THE WHITE TRASH SONG

STANLEY AND HENRY Jim Post with Steve Young [Bonus Track]

DISC 2 – STEVE YOUNG LIVE:

LONG WAY TO HOLLYWOOD

RAGTIME BLUE GUITAR

SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD

MONTGOMERY IN THE RAIN

BRAIN CLOUDY BLUES

LONESOME, ON’RY AND MEAN

RAMBLIN’ MAN

HOME SWEET HOME REVISITED

ONE WOMAN MAN

NO PLACE TO FALL

DRIFT AWAY

DON’T THINK TWICE (IT’S ALRIGHT)

GONNA FIND ME A BLUEBIRD

HOBO BLUES

GO TO SEA NO MORE

TRAVELING KIND

THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA

DISC 3 – STEVE YOUNG LIVE:

THE WHITE TRASH SONG

TOBACCO ROAD

THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED

ALL HER LOVERS WANT TO BE THE HERO

CORRINA, CORRINA

ROCK SALT & NAILS

OLD MEMORIES (MEAN NOTHING TO ME)

YOU DON’T MISS YOUR WATER

LOVE PLEASE COME HOME

SAN FRANCISCO MABEL JOY

MY SWEET LOVE AIN’T AROUND

ALABAMA HIGHWAY

BACKSLIDER’S WINE

EAST VIRGINIA

MANY RIVERS

WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH BEFORE

MIDNIGHT RIDER