STEVE YOUNG Honky-Tonk Man SIGNED Mountain Railroad

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Steve Young Honky-Tonk Man Signed on the front cover 1975 marked the return to the recording scene for Steve Young. Honky Tonk Man, released on Wisconsin's tiny Mountain  Railroad Records, was his first recording since Seven Bridges Road in 1971 (which had been reissued in 1973). This is the  most straight-up country record Young ever cut. He handles both lead and rhythm guitar chores with a band of fine session  players, including Kamau Gravatt, who did double duty with Weather Report. Other than redos of Utah Phillips' "Rock, Salt &  Nails" and his own "White Trash Song," Young sticks somewhat close to the canon of classic country with a few surprises --  at least on side one; side two is mostly his own material. The deep blues read of Bob Wills' "Brain Cloudy Blues" is radical  and as far from Western swing as it gets, but it also showcases Wills' own roots in the blues. The title cut is a version of the Johnny Horton classic with swinging fiddles by Craig Ruble and Cal Hand's warbling pedal steel kept in line by Bill Petersen's  electric bass. Young's vocal is a reedy baritone that gets to the heart of matter -- that this is a drinking playboy's anthem.  Side one eclipses with a high, lonesome take on Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man" that is as cur-dog low as it is restless and  a cover of Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Young's version is pastoral and slow; it's as mournful  as a funeral song and comes across as a folk elegy for the Deep South at the end of the Civil War. Side two is marked by  Young's own stunner, "We've Been Together on This Earth Before," "Vision of a Child," and two live cuts done with Doc Watson  of the traditional "Sally Goodin'" and the spooky country of "Travelin' Kind." Like Seven Bridges Road, Honky Tonk Man is a  fine outing from Young, though it is hampered a bit by somewhat shoddy recording. But the material and his performance  of it are top-notch. Side 1 Side 2 Honky Tonk Man Traveling Kind Brain Cloudy Blues Sally Goodin' Rock Salt & Nails Alabama Highway Rockin' Chair Money Vision Of A Child Ramblin' Man We've Been Together On This Earth Before The Night They drove Ol' Dixie Down The White Trash Song Lable ~~~ Mountain Railroad Cat # ~~~ MR 52776 Jacket ~~~ EX (No seam splits but a bit of ring wear) Disc ~~~ EX+ Country ~~~ US Lyric sheet insert All LP's will be posted out using proper mailers with stiffeners. Records will be taken out of jackets before posting.                                                         Shipping Costs                                                          For the UK :  £3.00                           For Europe :  £4.00    For the Rest of the World : £7.00          Double albums - UK :  £3.50               Double albums Europe : £5.50                                 Double albums - RoW : £9.00                                                       Items containing 3 discs or more will be calculated at ACTUAL weight and charged accordingly.       All shipping for multiple wins will be charged at actual weight. Please wait for an Invoice.                             I have been buying on eBay now for many years and have over a thousand positive feedbacks. There is a reason why i have opened  a new account with eBay to sell rather than use my existing account. I have in the last year or so returned to my Christian belief.  I want to follow what is scriptual in disposing of what, quite honestly, has been a bit of a millstone around my neck. One day i  looked around at all the many thousand items that filled two rooms and came to a dawning realisation that i had no idea what  90% of all this stuff was. I mean, i could go and buy something, play it once, log it, and that was the last i ever saw of it. So, this has  handed me a golden opportunity to turn around this situation into something positive. I usually find something to say about what  i am selling along with a track listing for albums. I hope that my passion and love for these items shines through occasionally  amongst my rambling. So why would i want to just give them away. Simple, my love for Jesus as my redeemer is even greater.  Matthew chapter 19 verses 16-21 gives my explanation for giving the lot to the Haiti Hospital Appeal. So keep watching as there  are loads of serious stuff to come ( including a couple of hundred Westwood one type radio shows ).