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Renegade Picker/No Place to Fall

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There haven't been 10 better albums made in country music over the past 50 years. Waylon Jennings used to regularly show up at Young's shows and told anybody who wanted to hear it that he had the best voice in country music. Young's also one of the finest 12 string guys in the biz. If you like Americana or Alt. Country or whatever it is they call it these days, you NEED these CDs.

I started w/ steve earle, worked my way back to townes van zandt and then got to steve young. i am not disappointed. if you like earle and van zandt you'll appreciate this. also try guy clark.

What a treat for the ears and the soul. Steve Young has to be one of the best song writers and singers I've ever heard, yet in my 45 years of listening to all types of music I'd never been exposed to his music before. I bought this double album and listened to twice today after UPS delivered my order.

What a rich, inspired-from-the-heart soulful voice, wonderful lyrics, and great instrumentals. It's hard to classify Steve's music. It's definitely country, but it's much more than that too. I will be buying more of his albums as I've listened to a couple more tracks from other albums of his and these two albums are not shots-in-the-dark. Everything of his is very good.

I'd heard Seven Bridges Road by the Eagles and thought it was very good, but I have to say Steve Young does a far better job playing and singing it. You can hear his heart in his music. It's extraordinary. I would love to see him in concert.

I had one of the two albums in this set (No Place To Fall) years ago on vinyl. Incredible vocals, great songwriting ("Montgomery In The Rain", "Seven Bridges Road"), and choice and interpretation of covers. The covers are particularly strong. Young's version of "No Place To Fall" defines the Townes Van Zandt song. "Don't Think Twice", is one of the best Dylan covers ever; while Young makes "Drift Away" and "The Same Old Blues" his own as well.

"No Place To Fall" is a five-star album by itself. "Renegade Picker" has less to offer, but as part of a two-for-one deal, ain't bad.

These are his best 2 LP's, together in one set, well worth the investment. I can't think of 5 better country male voices than Steve Young. The mastering is excellent. Also note a significant error in Amazon's product description which omits Montgomery in the Rain in song listing. Montgomery in the Rain is included in this 2 CD set. Many of these songs include backup and clearly audible vocals by the very best female rock/blues/gospel singer Tracy Nelson.

These are two albums produced by Roy Dea. (It actually comes with 2 CD's in one jewel case.) Roy Dea was Gary Stewart's producer on his classic album "Out Of Hand". Steve Young's emotional vocals sound very good with this type of production. Many of these songs are Outlaw Classics. These albums are collectors items on vinyl, so you'll never be able to find them. Might as well on CD, eh? Steve Young has a musical career just as fabulous as his football career.

Broken Hearted People (Take me to a barroom) is probably one of the greatest country songs ever recorded. Steve Young's voice conveys great emotion. He is so mournful in this song, I find myself feeling sorry for him when I listen. His classic songs, like Angel from Montgomery are perfect. If you have only one country album, this should be it.

The intersection of country, soul, and blues. What makes Young stand out is his ability to blend these styles effortlessly. Where some efforts at genre bending sound forced (Flying Burrito Brothers, for example), Young never sounds like he is out of his element. Of course, it helps that he has that voice. His song writing is evocative and uniformly excellent. "All Her Lovers Want to be the Hero" is worth the price of admission by itself. It's a classic country weeper with a twist: the woman who sleeps with the "men of the night" is not pitied, but rather celebrated for her independence and refusal to be tied to one man. His choice of covers is always spot on. Rodney Crowell's "Home Sweet Home (revisited)" is an epic tale of the new south and a welcome alternative to the simple pandering of much of the southern rock of the seventies. As Waylon Jennings (supposedly) once said about Young, "If he gets any better, we'll have to break his thumbs."