We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago…..
He was still a member of his band “The Youngbloods” as he recorded his first solo record in 1972. Perry Miller, known professionally as Jesse Colin Young, was a sweet voiced singer-songwriter who had performed as a solo act early in his career. He joined up with Jerry Corbitt to form the Youngbloods who became the house band at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village. They recorded the Chet Powers song ‘Get Together” and released it in 1967 but it didnt become the hippie national anthem until it was used in a PSA for the National Council of Christians and Jews in 1969.
His solo LP “Together” was successful enough for Young to disband the group and go solo. He would release a string of records in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
This album features a number of high points including the anto-war song “Peace Song”. He also did some sweet covers including a breezy version of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”, a re-arranged “Six Days on The Road”, and a nice version of Paul Butterfield’s Born In Chicago” and Wooody Guthrie’s ‘Pastures Of Plenty”.
I also enjoyed the tune “100 Miles From Nowhere”
This LP has the sound that became familiar as country-tinged folk in the early singer-songwriter days…think Tupelo Honey or early Fogelberg. It has some nice dobro from Peter Childs and electric guitar from both Young and Eddy Ottenstein.
A good solo start.
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