VIA PRESS RELEASE | In celebration of the 50th anniversary, Jesse Colin Young has announced a fully remastered release of one of his most iconic albums, Song for Juli, due out on September 15.
Originally released on September 4, 1973, the all-new version will be available on all streaming platforms as well as extremely limited-edition vinyl. Fans can pre-order the album beginning now, and the first remastered single “Morning Sun” is also released.
“In the waning days of the Youngbloods, I built my first house on the last ridge before the beach at Drakes Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco. My dreams of a ‘Green Hill Mt. Home’ were coming true, and the next part of the dream was the building of a studio just down the hill from the house,” recalled Jesse Colin Young.
“By the time I got the studio outfitted with the right gear, I was starting a new band with a new sound, in a new studio right there on the ridgetop. What a wonderful adventure Song for Juli was for all of us.”
Young’s new band drew from all their influences: folk, rock, jazz, samba, country, cajun, and of course the blues resulting in one of the seminal Americana albums of the early 1970’s. “The Ridgetop house is gone due to a forest fire in the ’90s, but the music and the little studio where it was born both live on. Happy 50th to all of you that were part of this grand adventure,” said Young.
Young recently completed a leg of his Highway Troubadour tour alongside his daughter Jazzie Young, an emerging singer-songwriter. Tour highlights include stops in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, including opening for Steve Miller Band and being featured at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
In late 2020, Young released his 22nd solo album, Highway Troubadour, via BMG. Highway Troubadour marks the first truly solo acoustic record for Young since his debut album, 1964’s The Soul of a City Boy.
Recorded with just two AEA A440 ribbon microphones to capture warmth—one for his voice, and one for his guitar—Highway Troubadour features newly-recorded solo performances of songs from Jesse Colin Young’s entire catalog, including a revised take on the Youngbloods’ “Sugar Babe” and an intimate version of “Cast a Stone” from his critically-acclaimed 2019 release, Dreamers.
