Mike Younger is the product of a journey along the road less travelled. His music and persona are unique and noteworthy for the breadth of styles and genres they touch upon as well as the content behind them. Having been exposed to and inspired by some of the milestone artists that defined the rock and roll era of the fifties, sixties and seventies he was determined to dig deeper into the history and roots of these musical forms. At the age of seventeen Younger took to the road, travelling by thumb, rail, shoestring, bus etc.Though his origins lead back to eastern Canada, his musical journey has passed through many towns and citieshis stages have been piers, sidewalks, doorways, town squares, coffeeshops, bars, saloons, joints, nightclubs and theatres. He has never performed on American Idol and probably never will. Arriving in New York at 20 Mike thought he'd seen a thing or two about the world and learned that everything in life is relative. After being nearly swallowed up by the street life of the big city, he narrowly escaped to the warm sunny skies and soothing melodies of New Orleans on a midnight greyhound bus ride. It was there, while wandering the streets of the Quarter and soaking up all the rich and ominous history that floats in the air like the perfume of a magnolia blossom on a sultry summer night that Mike began to find his own voice in the musical forms surrounding him. He soon attracted the attention of publishing interests in Nashville and his recordings ended up reaching Rodney Crowell, who produced Younger's first effort, "Somethin In The Air", on Beyond Music 1999. Two songs from that project were very well received on AAA radio and Mike travelled the country performing to support the release. He was a featured performer at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and 2000. It was in 2001 that Mike made a record that some refer to as "The Lost Record". Not much is known about the project but sources confirm that Levon Helm played the drums, Spooner Oldham played keys and David Hood played bass. During the course of the project, recorded in Memphis, an unfortunate sequence of events led to the collapse of Beyond Music and a cessation of the recording. The project became lost to the legal limbo that ensued. Not to be deterred, Mike continued touring, sharing the stage with the likes of Robbie Fulks, BR549, Asleep At The Wheel, Nanci Griffith. He has played the New Orleans Jazz Festival, The Beacon Theatre in New York and The Ryman in Nashville. In 2005 he put out his second release, "Every Stone You Throw" on Bare Bone Productions. The record was widely embraced among non-commercial radio stations, particularly the songs "Together" and "Everyday War", which were both unusually timely.
