Bio Like Ohio Bio like Ohio. No Pennsylvania. Self Taught. Brother had a guitar which I never gave back. Mansfield, Abbey Road, Cold winters, cigarettes, Diane. Strawberry fields. Jack and Deuce. coffee by the trip tent. Driving. Whole Lotta Love on the 8 track. High in the parking lot. Spencer gifts. Farm show arena. Hang on to Yourself. Joni. Help me. I'm falling in love. Carl and the Volvo roars like a jet plane. Crash on the couch. NYC. The news. Kennedy's Children did me in. Bonnie and Adam. Hell's kitchen finds me. I pay The Cost. Steep price. Paula. Solo/Loco

THE COST : First Review!! A Review of Tim Young Band's 'The Cost' By Liz Singer Tim Young Band's 'The Cost' is... Every fleeting idea of pain, loss, and confusion come to full circle on each track, bringing to light the themes we all need to spend time thinking about. The single "The Cost" tugs right at your heart-strings with fully-charged, emotive lyrics like "Now the night is sawin' at my heart...nobody knows the cost of losing you." Moving forward from the pain of loss, this twangy, sorrowful lament about heartbreak infuses country-western rock to create a catchy melody. "Outta Town" adds electric guitar and makes you imagine what it would be like to just run away from all your problems as Young lists daily hassles we all deal with, such as traffic, landlords, and stresses from work. One of the strongest songs, with the best intro, is "Drifting Cowboy." With sliding guitar riffs, the vocals slow down, providing a tune to meditate to, amidst your confusion... Creating an original story on this track, Young tells the tale of a young Hank Williams from Alabama who quit school: "Struggle and rejection filled his cup until he landed on the stage in Nashville." As Young switches to first person with "I'm a drifting cowboy," we have to wonder if Young himself is the drifting cowboy. Either way, the story is nothing short of riveting. "Just For You" has a nostalgic feel to it, bringing Elvis' generation of country/rock back to the mainstream music scene with awesome strumming guitar and wailing, honest vocals: "If I were the sunshine and you were a diamond, I'd shine every night just for you..." "Remember" certainly has an Elvis attitude, with its "bad boy" tone shining through: "And even when I write these words / I don't understand the past." The track presents a concept any listener can understand: being at a crossroads of the past and present, trying to decipher what's happened before in order to know where to go in the future. On "Hangin' In," Young sings the blues, country-style, telling middle class woes of trying to get by, while inspiring listeners to keep their heads up: "It's a long road every day / everyone I know says they're hangin' in." Shifting the album's tone, on "Cold Wind" Young introduces the theme of being, as Bob Dylan sings, "Blowin' in the wind": "Cold wind keeps on blowin' me around; cold wind spins the truth right through the ground." "Renegade" fittingly closes the album, since after moving from a wandering cowboy, to a lost soul, to the dust blowing through the cold wind, Young advances to a renegade: a proud, brave man advancing forward through nature and city scenes alike, ready to dominate whatever environment he finds himself in. Without looking back, and with his eyes always set straight ahead, Young proves the ability that we all have to completely move on past the painful yesterdays and transform ourselves into powerful individuals that we never thought we could become. Then, truly, the cost of the pain becomes inconsequential; all that matters are the rewards reaped from the incredible growth process that we all are able to enter and emerge from. 'The Cost' forces listeners to ask themselves, "Where am I? Where have I been? How does it all make sense?" And more importantly, "Where am I going?"

CD Review: Tim Young Band Monday, September 15, 2008 CD Review: Tim Young Band - The Cost Tim Young Band - The Cost 2008, Not Fade Away Records The Tim Young Band plays a clean brand of acoustic rock with Americana influences that is perfect for the dinner and early evening set. The Cost is a mellow classic rock album with strong songwriting and tight arrangements. It's not feel good music per se, but you'll feel good listening to it. Tim Young started out as a solo performer and had the band grow around him beginning in 2002 when he released his debut album No Stranger. Young is an everyman performer who appeals to the working set and the business set equally.. it's a great listen that's family friendly and worth taking the time for. Highlights include The Cost, Kerouac, Drifting Cowboy and Hanging In. My personal favorite is Remember which has a roots rock feel and recounts an early date at a Nirvana concert. Tim Young Band's The Cost is a strong effort and a pleasant listen. It's not going to knock your socks off, but it's a steady record you'll find yourself returning to from time to time. Good stuff. Rating: 3 Stars (Out of 5) Posted by Wildy.

Rave RED review by Kate Flavin Greenwich Village is for many a living memorial to the artistic greats; its with an air of reverence that one walks down the street and visits the hideouts that served as home to the crop of horrendously talented youths in the 1960s. One cannot help but be inspired by this atmosphere, and Tim Young is one such man. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved to the Village in the late 1970s, where he says one ?could still feel the cool vibes from when Dylan and company ruled on MacDougal Street.? Further showing his admiration for his idols, he mentions time spent at the Kettle of Fish pub, an old haunt of Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac before him. Although he has now moved his gigging focus to Mid-town's renowned Hell's Kitchen, Tim Young's song writing skills clearly benefited from immersion in the Villages musical heritage. His 2002 release, No Stranger, was a well-received instrumental but his real gift seems to be in spinning a yarn or two. And that's what he gets to do on 2005's Red, sixteen songs that dare the listener not to get involved. His voice is one of his strongest assets, commanding yet empathetic as he invites the listener into his world. Of course, it does not hurt that his message is backed by skilled musicianship. Highlights for me include Dreams and the NPR featured The Road. I won?t lie; at first I was confused that a singer-songwriter was calling himself the Hell's Kitchen Rock n Roll Legend. But I was forgetting one of rock's fundamental elements: honesty. After all, it's all about laying out your heart and soul and Young clearly does this in every song. It does not matter how hard you bang the drums, if your hearts not in it, the audience will know. In this way, Tim Young truly is a rock n roll star. ---by Kate Flavin---