Steve Young - Renegade Picker-No Place to Fall (1976-78) [2001]

Artist: Steve Young
Album: Renegade Picker / No Place to Fall
Release: 1976/78 (2001)
Genre: Country Rock
Country: US
Quality: FLAC | lossless

While Steve Young may be best known as "the guy who wrote that Eagles hit ("Seven Bridges Road")," he also held his own with Waylon, Willie, and the boys during the 1970s. Renegade Picker and No Place to Fall are superior mid-'70s outlaw albums, filled with splendid songs (many of them Young's), inspired performances, and, very importantly, have a real honky tonk sound. Young is a fine singer, and his resounding vocals really bite into a lyric like Willie Nelson's "It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" and Merle Haggard's "I Can't Be Myself." He also has a knack for reimagining familiar material, even material, on first glance, that may seem far afield from country. 

Tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Renegade Picker - 3:13
2. I Can't Be Myself (Merle Haggard) - 3:19
3. Old Memories (Mean Nothing To Me) - 3:18
4. It's Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson) - 3:44
5. Tobacco Road (John D. Loudermilk) - 3:45
6. Light Of My Life - 4:08
7. Lonesome, On'ry And Mean - 3:18
8. All Her Lovers Want To Be The Hero - 3:30
9. Broken Hearted People (Take Me To A Barroom) (Guy Clark) - 4:11
10.Sweet Thing (Buddy Starcher) - 2:56
11.Home Sweet Home (Revisited) (Rodney Crowell) - 5:58
Disc 2
1. No Place To Fall (Townes Van Zandt) - 4:02
2. Montgomery In The Rain - 4:28
3. Dreamer - 3:44
4. Always Loving You - 4:54
5. Drift Away (Mentor Williams) - 4:33
6. Seven Bridges Road - 4:53
7. I Closed My Heart's Door (Ralph Jones, Stoney Cooper) - 4:56
8. Don't Think Twice It's All Right (Bob Dylan) - 4:09
9. I Can't Sleep (Steve Goodman) - 3:45
10.I've Got The Same Old Blues (J.J. Cale) - 2:26