Mike Younger and the Marksmen – Hustled by Squares
So sometime around 1998 music from a musician working in New Orleans crossed the Nashville desk of Rodney Crowell and in 1999 Rodney produced Mike Younger’s first album Something in the Air fast forward a few years and I too discovered the music of Mike Younger, in the budget bin of my favorite used CD store. The album looked interesting and when I took it home and listened I was blown away by the album! I felt that comparison to Dylan or Springstein were right on and the album stayed in my CD player for a long while! In 2005 Mike released his second album Every Stone You Throw while it was a good album I didn’t think it measured up to the first album. This summer Mike has a new band The Marksmen and has released a really strong album Hustled by Squares . The album is a little more rock than I remember Something in the Air being (and I have to remember because the CD cover is empty and I think the ripped CD is on an external hard drive that decided not to work!) Anyway from his biography on his website: