FAI was such a blast this year!! I made a ton of new friends and saw/heard so many amazing performances!! I also caught up with Jeff Fasano who had his photo studio set up and he snapped a few portrait photos of me!! I performed four different showcases ( thank you- SERFA, Heartland Song […]
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April had me playing a number of shows, both solo and with my trio (Mike Younger & The Tennessee Treehuggers) in North Carolina. We especially enjoyed playing at The Black Mountain Kitchen & Alehouse, which was so very cool…. Had to outfit the van with an auxiliary transmission cooler, a towing hitch and a trailer […]
We had a very awesome run down into the Texas Hill country by way of Austin and Little Rock this past week….I took Ronnie Lee Gipson with me on bass….He’s been with me since last fall when we did an east coast and a midwest run. He’s a great player. And he’s really good with […]
It was a pleasant surprise to receive a critic’s pick from The Nashville Scene’s Edd Hurt for my January 26th show at The 5 Spot. It was a co-bill with Afton Wolfe, and his crew rocked the house! One of my bandmates tested positive for Covid the day before the gig so I ended up […]
On November 6th 2021, I was proud to join a tremendous group of local bands and performers at Nashville’s The Basement East to pay homage to one of the greatest bands of all time – THE BAND!! with – Ladycouch, Jon Latham and The Lifers , Brad Pemberton and Friends, Natchez Tracers, Scot Sax and […]
Recorded 20 years ago, this album features singer and guitarist Mike Younger teamed with classic rockers like The Band’s Levon Helm/g along with Luther Dickenson/g, Sppner Oldham/key, Jim Dickenson/p, David Hood/b, a horn section and rotating guest team on this mix of rootsy originals. Younger himself has a voice similar to early Rod Stewart, bluesy […]
Mike Younger – Burning the Big Top Down This 9-track LP was “lost” & fortunately reclaimed by Nova Scotia-native Mike Younger 20-years later. I always question what the word “lost” means. If you add up all the “lost” LPs I get the impression record companies are disorganized. Maybe a better word would be “shelved.” That’s […]
Persistence pays off. Singer-songwriter Mike Younger began this project now titled, Burning the Bigtop Down, in January of 2001, over 20 years ago. The original tracks, the same nine Younger originals represented herein, were recorded alongside the departed icons Levon Helm and Jim Dickinson. For reasons which remain inexplicable to us, maybe even to Younger, […]
“It just put me on this trajectory of having left behind a pound of flesh in Memphis for the last 20 years,” says Nashville singer and songwriter Mike Younger, speaking about his new album Burning the Bigtop Down. He’s not exaggerating: The making of Burning the Bigtop Down is the kind of music-business tale that […]
The backstory of an album is oftentimes more interesting that the record itself, but that’s definitely not the case with Burning The Bigtop Down. Mike Younger was in the studio collaborating with the late legends Levon Helm and Jim Dickinson back in 2001 when his label went defunct, but he refused to become so dismayed […]