Biography

Contact and Information

John Otto Young
Shelton, CT USA
(203)314-5150
email: johnottoyoung@gmail.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/johnottoyoung
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnottoyoung
website: http://johnottoyoung.com
Sunset Tour: http://johnottoyoung.hearnow.com

Sunset Tour

1. Timeline (4:09)
2. Just Wait (4:50)
3. Real Good Time (w/Doug Bernstein) (3.45)
4. No Easy Way (w/Paul Gabriel) (4:26)
5. Cheap Beer (w/Gashouse Gorillas) (4:24)
6. Desperation (w/Howard Eldridge & Paul Gabriel) (3:52)
7. Mother’s Love (w/Myra&Colin Healy, Ken Butler) (5:11)
8. Trouble in Paradise (5:56)
9. Anymore (w/Keith Lebo) (3:34)
10. Gates of Hell (w/Don DeStefano) (3:58)
Alternate Tracks:
11. No Easy Way (w/Howard Eldridge&Paul Gabriel) (4:26)
12. Mother’s Love (5:11)

All songs, lyrics and music, by John Otto Young
© 2019 John Otto Young
Fluffy Baby Music. BMI. All rights reserved.

Produced by John Young and Paul Opalach
Recorded, engineered, and mixed by
Paul Opalach at Long Hill Recording Studio, Shelton, CT
Mastered by Patrick Nichols at Audiostasis, Nashville, TN

Cover design and art work by Karen Garrity
Photos of Herring Cove in Provincetown by Michael Crainich


Biography

John Otto Young is a Connecticut keyboardist, musician, and songwriter who has been playing and recording in a number of projects over the last 6 decades. These include the Center Street Band as well as Howard Eldridge and the Soul Potatoes. He has also co-produced 3 albums, including 2 earlier releases by the Center Street Band.

Sunset Tour, released in May of 2019, is John’s debut solo album as a songwriter and represents a range of musical styles and influences that have infiltrated his brain over the course of his musical career.

John currently has the keyboard chair in the Soul Potatoes, a Connecticut blues band, which features vocalist Howard Eldridge, former lead singer for the Matt 'Guitar' Murphy Band, and guitarist Paul Gabriel, a 2017 BMA award nominee and Connecticut Blues Hall of Fame lifetime award winner. Both have feature spots in Sunset Tour.

For more information, visit http://johnottoyoung.com.