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Artist
Christopher Neil Young
12+ albums
rockfolkbluessoulacoustic
about
It ain’t hard to stumble and land in some funny lagoon, when your morning’s first stride is from backseat to the parking lot pavement, your girlfriend’s dry cough breaks her yawn and she rubs the kink in her neck. The parking stripes outreach dawn’s freshest rays as industrious students slowly fill the university’s lot. Your sunken eyes embarrassingly meet hers during the morning’s stretching ritual. A parking lot should never be a home, you both acknowledge with sighs and silence. But where has home ever been? Not the broken one back ‘home’. Not the juvenile prison after that. Or the tent in your Aunt’s backyard after that.. But certainly not this university parking lot. Christopher Neil Young’s newest collection of songs, Birthwrites, is charged with this energy of urgent impatience battling disorientation. The tracks fluidly reason through a rejection of one’s world to a reinvention of one’s self. Birthwrites is a record of how one determined singer-songwriter inverted a sense of directionless into a purpose of personal revival. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Christopher Neil Young has composed, recorded, engineered, and performed Birthwrites entirely by himself, minus four drum tracks by his touring drummer, Matt Hazelrig. Coming from Portland, he has lived (often briefly and in transit) all over the Willamette Valley and San Francisco, creating and performing music in every place he has stayed. Aside from his music projects he has published a book o
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albums
Articles of a dead man (2006-2010)
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Live at the Comedy Castle
Black and Blue (A live and freestyle album) (2011)
Road trippin'
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Demo - Black and Blue
Birthwrites (2010)
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Birthwrites (2010) MP3
23 minutes of lyrical freedom (2004)
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Demo 2011
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Birth writes (Alive/Survive/Strive/Thrive)
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Building an empire
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Birthwrites