Name: Seven Bridges Road: Complete Recordings
Brand: Young, Steve
SKU: 141370177
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Seven Bridges Road

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Album: Seven Bridges Road: Complete Recordings
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Seven Bridges Road (Original Version)	More Info...
2)	My Oklahoma	More Info...
3)	The White Trash Song (Nashville Version)	More Info...
4)	I Begin to See Design	More Info...
5)	One Car Funeral Procession	More Info...
6)	Long Way to Hollywood	More Info...
7)	Many Rivers	More Info...
8)	Lonesome On'ry and Mean	More Info...
9)	Come Sit By My Side	More Info...
10)	True Note	More Info...
11)	Ragtime Blue Guitar	More Info...
12)	Montgomery in the Rain	More Info...
13)	The White Trash Song (New Mexico Version) - Steve Young with the Last Mile Ramblers	More Info...
14)	I Can't Hold Myself in Line	More Info...
15)	Seven Bridges Road (1981 Version)	More Info...
16)	Down in the Flood	More Info...
17)	Ballad of William Sycamore	More Info...
18)	Wild Goose	More Info...
19)	Days of '49	More Info...
20)	Crash on the Levee	More Info...
21)	The White Trash Song (Los Angeles Version)	More Info...

Album: Seven Bridges Road: Complete Recordings
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Seven Bridges Road (Original Version)	More Info...
2)	My Oklahoma	More Info...
3)	The White Trash Song (Nashville Version)	More Info...
4)	I Begin to See Design	More Info...
5)	One Car Funeral Procession	More Info...
6)	Long Way to Hollywood	More Info...
7)	Many Rivers	More Info...
8)	Lonesome On'ry and Mean	More Info...
9)	Come Sit By My Side	More Info...
10)	True Note	More Info...
11)	Ragtime Blue Guitar	More Info...
12)	Montgomery in the Rain	More Info...
13)	The White Trash Song (New Mexico Version) - Steve Young with the Last Mile Ramblers	More Info...
14)	I Can't Hold Myself in Line	More Info...
15)	Seven Bridges Road (1981 Version)	More Info...
16)	Down in the Flood	More Info...
17)	Ballad of William Sycamore	More Info...
18)	Wild Goose	More Info...
19)	Days of '49	More Info...
20)	Crash on the Levee	More Info...
21)	The White Trash Song (Los Angeles Version)	More Info...

Performer Notes

Liner Note Author: Garth Cartwright.
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.] ~ Thom Jurek

Professional Reviews

Uncut (magazine) (p.65) - "His best songs display a literary eye for detail, an aphoristic bent and a rugged, stubborn individualism..."