Click on the graphic below to watch the video for THE ENEMY WITHIN, Mike Younger’s most recent single release

Thanks and deepest gratitude to all the superb stations and programmers that have given Mike Younger’s music a little love!!! Special thanks to these reporting stations:

WHRV & WHRO Norfolk, WLUW Chicago, WFMU New York, CKMS Waterloo, INNER FM Melbourne, KFAI-FM Minneapolis,  Americana Boogie Radio Salem, Gimme Country San Francisco CA, GotRadio.com, KCSN-FM Northridge CA, KDNK-FM Carbondale CO, KHNS-FM Haines AK, KRCB-FM Santa Rosa CA, KRSH-FM Santa Rosa CA, KVMR-FM Nevada City CA, Ocean Beach Radio Newport OR, Radio Free Americana Charlottesville VA, WAMU-FM DC-MD, WCNI-FM New London CT, WERU-FM Bangor ME, WGCS-FM Goshen IN, WGWG (Gardner-Webb Univ) Boiling Springs NC, WMOT-FM Murfreesboro TN, WBSD Burlington VT, WNMC-FM Traverse City MI, CHRW Canada, CKUT Canada, WFPK Louisville KY, WKZE Red Hook NY and WEVL Memphis TN, Mark Skin Radio, Round And Sound Netherlands, The Back Forty Radio, WXNA Nashville, WKZE Red Hook NY, KKFI Kansas City, WFUV Bronx NY….AND an extra special thank you to all the hometown love from WMOT Nashville !! Thanks guys and gals!! You are what keeps the world rockin’!!

Welcome. We know your time is valuable. Here you will find access to:

– Press Links and Quotes from recent reviews/interviews

– Soundcloud Links for access to audio

– Live Performance Videos in various configurations (solo, trio etc)

– Links to Social Media 

– Touring history archives

Communicate directly with the Mike Younger Touring & Logistics team for a rapid response on pricing, terms of service, availability, scale and options.

2025

2025 has been a very busy year. Mike has toured extensively in the Midwest, MidAtlantic, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast and Pacific Northwest regions, and is currently preparing to return to many of these regions in 2026. His itineraries have been a mix of festivals and fairs, house concerts and live music venues.

He performs solo, duo(gtr&bass) or with his band (Mike Younger & The Tennessee Treehuggers) and is available for private functions, cruises, casinos, resorts, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and generally most any gig where good people are gathered.  

2024

 

2024 Festival Highlights

Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Fall Festival  Oct 13th Lowell MA

Brooklyn Americana Music Festival July 26th  Brooklyn NYC

Tom Tom Festival  April 21st  Charlottesville VA

9th Annual American Roots Hoedown  April 26th Nashville TN

Hagerstown Eclipse Concert   April 8th  Hagerstown IN

Folk Alliance  Feb 21st Kansas City MO

SXSW     March 15th & 16th  Austin TX

 

 

 

See full 2024 itinerary

“Things To Do Around Boston This Weekend And Beyond”

from the BOSTON GLOBE on July 26th 2024

2023

2022

 In recent years Mike has performed at The Cutting Room NYC, Lucinda’s NYC, The Roots and Boots Country Music Festival in Canadaigua NY, Sunny’s Bar Red Hook NY, Atwood’s Tavern, Montrose Saloon Chicago, The Burren and Underbones in Boston, Worthen House in Lowell MA, Rockwood Music Hall NY, Jamey’s House of Music in Philadelphia, Fox Den Motel Dubuque,  Moondogs in Auburn NY, 443 Social Club in Syracuse NY, Mohawk Place in Buffalo NY, the Beachland Ballroom Tavern in Cleveland, Montrose Saloon in Chicago, Duke’s Indy, Melody Inn in Indianapolis, Byron’s and The V’ue in Iowa, Palmer’s Bar in Minneapolis, O’Donaghue’s Milwaukee, Pattenburg House Asbury NJ, 5Spot Nashville, Little Market Cafe Ellicott City MD, Brooklyn Americana Music Festival in NYC, Cinema Bar in LA, The Lost Church (San Francisco & Santa Rosa), Soho in Santa Barbara, Pourhouse (San Diego), Henfling’s (Santa Cruz), Black Mountain Alehouse Black Mountain NC, Water Street Asheville NC,  Hickory Tavern Charlotte NC, Summer Solstice Festival Red Boiling Springs TN, Stella’s Elixir Lounge Huntsville TN, The Gaslight St Louis, Cannibal & Craft Little Rock Arkansas, Hernando’s Hideaway Memphis, and the 1st-10th American Roots Hoedown , Dee’s Lounge and Eastside Bowl Nashville, Al’s Den Portland, Stagger Inn Again Edwardsville, Tom Tom Festival Charlottesville, Olde Town Festival Chicago and numerous other local events in Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

His work has been featured and reviewed by such notable publications as: No Depression, LA Times, Glide Magazine, The Nashville Scene, The East Nashvillian, Jazz Weekly, Indie Spotlight, Liverpool Sound & Vision, Midwest Record Entertainment, Americana Highways, New Noise Magazine, All About Jazz, Red Dirt Report, Elmore Magazine, NYS Music, Hollywood Soapbox, Adobe And Tears, The Alternate Root, Country Jukebox, The Chronicle Herald, Lonesome Highway, Keys And Chords, Music Morsels, Rootstime, and many others.
His songs Together and Poisoned Rivers have placed in the International Songwriters Contest and in The John Lennon Songwriting Contest. The lyrics of his song Together have been included in the John Denver Peace Cloth.
Mike has co-billed with such notables as : Keller Williams, Umphries McGee, Nanci Griffith, BR549, Asleep At The Wheel, Lucy Kaplansky, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Kenny Wayne Shephard, Kansas, Patterson Hood, Mike Farris, Jenn Christie and many others.

Mr Younger has had the honor of performing on some very coveted stages including:

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC w/ NAEH
Boston Greenfest @ Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston MA
The Ryman Auditorium @ Nashville TN
Brooklyn Americana Music Fest @ DUMBO NYC
Music City Roots @ The Factory, Franklin TN
The Water Is Life Expo @ The McCree Theatre, Flint MI
American Roots Hoedown @ Nashville TN
Isis Music Hall @ Asheville NC
Summer Solstice Festival @ Red Boiling Springs TN
The Ram’s Head Tavern @ Annapolis MD
Jazz Festival @ New Orleans LA
The Beacon Theatre @ NYC
The Buskirk-Chumley Theater @ Bloomington IN
The Birchmere @ Washington DC
The Showbox @ Seattle WA
Hibiscus Festival @ Port Charlotte FLA
Hard Rock Cafe @ Los Angeles CA
Mockingbird Theatre @ Franklin TN
Livestock Festival @ Roanoke VA
The Mercy Lounge @ Nashville TN
The OG Family Wash @ Nashville TN
Smithe’s Olde Bar @ Atlanta GA
Red Clay Music Foundry @ Duluth G.A

STREAM  Burning The Bigtop Down (2021),  or  Little Folks Like You And Me (2017) BY CLICKING ON EITHER OF THE GRAPHICS BELOW 

QUOTES

“…Soulfully singing about themes that matter more and more to our present day world…” – The Legendary Roy Peak, Rocking Magpie

“No-shit poetic realism” – Rodney Crowell

“He’s the next of us…” – Nanci Griffith

“Casual mastery that comes out of difficult times” – Edd Hurt, The Nashville Scene

“Taken in tandem, Burning The Bigtop Down adds up to one searing set of songs” –Lee Zimmerman, Indie Spotlight 

“Earnest, authentic r&b inflected rock…” – All About Jazz

 

“Both timeless and remarkably of the moment…” – New Noise Magazine

 

“Persistence pays off…” – Glide Magazine

 

“Impeccably recorded…” – Americana Highways