Steve Young - Seven Bridges Road '1972

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Seven Bridges Road (1981 Version)
02. Montgomery In The Rain
03. Ragtime Blue Guitar
04. Long Way To Hollywood
05. Down In The Flood
06. Ballad Of William Sycamore
07. My Oklahoma
08. Wild Goose
09. Days Of '49
10. Lonesome, On'ry And Mean
11. Seven Bridges Road (1972 Version)
12. The White Trash Song (Nashville Version)
13. I Begin To See Design
14. One Car Funeral Procession
15. Many Rivers
16. Come Sit By My Side
17. True Note
18. The White Trash Song (New Mexico Version)
19. I Can’t Hold Myself In Line
20. Down In The Flood (Crash On The Levee)
21. The White Trash Song (Sea Rock City / There's A High Tide A Risin') (Los
Angeles Version)

What distinguishes Steve Young's classic Seven Bridges Road - a follow-up to the
well-received A&M album Rock Salt and Nails - is the appearance of Young's
signature tunes: the title track; "Lonesome, On'ry & Mean," which was a smash
for Waylon Jennings as an outlaw anthem and established Young as a songwriter
for many other country stars; and the melodic jeremiad "Montgomery in the Rain."
Seven Bridges Road is also the most purely "country" record Young ever issued.
There is no rock & roll on this set, and there aren't any folk songs either.
It's pretty much a honky tonk record in the Merle Haggard vein, with a voice
equally influenced by the West Coast folk-rock sound. Nashville's session cats -
including Pete Drake on pedal steel, fiddle ace Buddy Spicher, harmonica player
Charlie McCoy, Elvis sideman D.J. Fontana, producer and pianist David Briggs,
and more than a dozen others - contributed to the album. All but three tracks
were written or co-written by Young; of the covers, his read of Haggard's "I
Can't Hold Myself in Line" is a stunner. On the humorous side, "The White Trash
Song" - performed with the Last Mile Ramblers - is a stomping electric bluegrass
number that hints at the more rockist direction Young would be heading in on
future recordings. But it is on the three bona fide classics that we encounter a
fully developed Young, not only as a songwriter, but as a singer. In particular,
"Seven Bridges Road" and "Montgomery in the Rain" offer a writer who has taken
everyone from Thomas Wolfe to Hank Williams and turned them into something
completely his own: prosaic, profound, and scathingly original. This is a bona
fide masterpiece. [A Chinese version was also released.]

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