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Fall 2025

It’s been a very busy year playing shows all over the place and recording a new album which will be out in spring 2026. I did a couple Midwest runs and Northeast runs over the summer and fall of 2025, and just launched THE ENEMY WITHIN to radio on November 4th! Very exciting!! Hope to see you all soon!!

Spring 2025

Well it looks like it’s going to be a great spring (aside from the cataclysmic shift in domestic and international geopolitics and the general slide into fascism at the hands of imbeciles) and I will be on the road again soon(see calendar page and above graphic) . I am also working on a new recorded work, more TBA. Thanks for all your support and stay strong my friends!!

Fall/Winter 2024

Hello friends, what a marvelous year it has been! I played tons of shows and visited so many cities that I have to go back through my calendar to see all the places I have performed over the last year! Luckily, my calendar page has a pretty extensive list of past shows, so I don’t have to go far!! Thank you to all my supporters at radio, in media, and the general public. And the promoters and venues, and the bands that have hosted me!! And the musicians that have backed me and, of course, my band!!!

I am regrouping now, getting my festival submissions out for 2025, writing and recording tunes for my next record, catching up with all the farm stuff here at home, designing new merch etc and getting ready for a Christmas show here in Nashville on Dec 19th (East Side Bowl 6:45-8, second set at 9) and then on Jan 3rd and 4th I’ll be showcasing for the Indiana Association of Festivals and Fairs, kicking off 2025 with a bang. Hope to see you soon!

Summer 2024

Hello Friends!! I am moving right along with a summer tour itinerary…Lots of cool stuff coming down the pike here in Nashville too…I’ll be a part of an amazing all-day program presented by Hub Of Love over at East Side Bowl on Sunday June 9th from 12-8PM. The event is called Day For Democracy and will feature some amazing local bands as well as incredible speakers – first of which is Representative Gloria Johnson, challenging Marsha Blackburn for her seat in the US Senate. Gloria is one of the celebrated Tennessee Three that stood with the Covenant School families after the shooting when the TN Senate refused to do anything, even to have a discussion to address gun access in TN and instead had the grieving families and traumatized parents removed by TN Capitol Security.

I am very excited to meet Representative Johnson and to hear her speak and to hear all the other amazing artists and speakers at this event. Please see the graphic, find the event on my facebook page, join us on the 9th. I will be performing at 4PM.

Many other shows are up on my Calendar page and I hope to see you down the road somewhere!! More to follow, stay tuned and stay awake!!

Spring 2024

MY FIRST TIME EVER ON AN OFFICIAL FAI SHOWCASE!!

Lots of 2024 stuff to announce in the coming days, but first up is that I will be attending Folk Alliance in Kansas City February 21-25!! Can’t wait to be back and see so many friends! My showcase schedule during the conference is:

Aaaand…this time I am honored to say I will also be backing up my friend the amazing artist and songwriter Amilia K Spicer at these showcases:

Mike Younger & The Tennessee Treehuggers (l-r Jesse Thompson, Mike Younger, Michael Majett, Andrew Nesbitt and Jeanne Peterson) at WMOT’s Finally Fridays Live Broadcast from Nashville’s Third & Lindsley.

When an artist takes on their chosen medium, they don’t know how long it will take to complete their art, for there is a process. It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel and 16 years for Ernest Hemingway to write his masterpiece, The Old Man And The Sea. Led Zeppelin only took 30 hours to record their breakthrough album, Led Zeppelin I – great art knows no concept of time, and sometimes, neither does the artist.

Mike Younger, a renegade troubadour and poet of roots music, knows the feeling. “On January 15, 2001, we began cutting the first tracks for the record that would come to define me, break me, and resurrect me over the next 20 years.”