Quentin Young

Artist Information

Biography

Quentin Young is a songwriter who performs solo and with The Quentin Young Band.

The Quentin Young Band formed in the summer of 2008 in the garage behind guitarist and songwriter Quentin Young’s Denver home. Young plays guitar and sings, Chris Rathbun plays guitar, Shawn Riley plays bass and Keith Conant plays drums.

The band has been collecting fans throughout metro Denver and Boulder. It has been recognized for the caliber of Young's songwriting and for the energy of its live performances.

Young also performs sets of his songs solo acoustic style or accompanied by one or two guest artists.

Quentin Young's most recent album, "Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks," was released in October 2010 with a show at Cervantes' The Other Side. The album earned positive reviews from local press, including Colorado Music Buzz, which said the band "has the talent for much bigger things."

Recent venues the band has played:
Capitol Hill People's Fair 2011
Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids
Cervantes' The Other Side
The Larimer Lounge
Herman’s Hideaway
Toad Tavern
Owsley’s
Dulcinea’s 100th Monkey
The Meadowlark

About Young's new album, "Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks": Songs about war. Songs about love. Fascination. Infatuation. Saying goodbye and crashing the scene. Expanding minds in Montparnasse. Loosened license and a little thing about Pedro, the medal aspirant. This is “Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks,” recorded in Missa Studios (Young’s basement) and mixed and mastered at Coupe Studios in Boulder by Greg McRae (Yonder Mountain String Band, DeVotchKa, Flobots).

The album features interviews with characters connected to the band, including Rats Martin, Veronica Sedgwick, Montgomery S. Littenburg III, Shawn Riley and Vinny “The Island” Borelli. This follows Young’s previous full-length release, the searching “Do-si-do for your girl,” and his earlier “High Stakes Man Going Down.”

Young has performed with numerous Colorado acts, including The Flood, Meadowlark Jivin’ and the Liz Barnez Band.

Instrumentation

Quentin Young - Guitars and Vocals
Chris Rathbun - Guitar
Shawn Riley - Bass and Vocals
Keith Conant - Drums and Vocals

Discography

1. High Stakes Man Going Down (2002)
2. A do-si-do for your girl (2004)
3. Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks (2010)

Audio

• The idealist nos. 11 and 12: Passion of the loose cannon
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• Hello_secondversion
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• Negative hundred and one
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• High stakes man going down
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• Florida
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Lyrics

• The idealist nos. 11 and 12
• Negative hundred and one
• Coming back again
• Capitol Hill
• Hello

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Press

• A-Sides: Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks [+ Show ]
  

  Recently, I was discussing with a friend the difficulty of discovering true diamond-in-the-rough ba... Recently, I was discussing with a friend the difficulty of discovering true diamond-in-the-rough bands on the local versus national music scene due to a shallower talent pool. Enter The Quentin Young Band with their debut, Passion of the Loose Cannon with Remarks, which leaves the listener thinking without a doubt this band has the talent for much bigger things. Think the stop-start experimental nature of Paul Westerberg and mix in some spoken word. Strangely enough, as referenced in the title, the remarks work on this album as they make for interesting interludes between songs and sometimes right in the middle of tracks. Disjointed tracks may rub some listeners the wrong way but for those who can get through these moments, The Quentin Young Band rewards them with an eclectic mix of Indie Rock, Folk, and a hint of Bluegrass.
  

• Panorama Picks [+ Show ]
  

  The Quentin Young Band is an amalgamation of punk, folk, and straight-up rock influences. Some of th...The Quentin Young Band is an amalgamation of punk, folk, and straight-up rock influences. Some of the tracks off the band’s album, “Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks,” sound more like ideas than cut-and-dried songs, snapshots of feeling converted to music. Think art-folk for the bar scene. This band has potential.
  

• Westword Music: Passion of the loose cannon, with remarks [+ Show ]
  

  Passion of the Loose Cannon, With Remarks, the followup to Do-Si-Do for Your Girl, is a bit disorien...Passion of the Loose Cannon, With Remarks, the followup to Do-Si-Do for Your Girl, is a bit disorienting at first. There's a lot going on here. The album opens with a gal talking about seeing the Quentin Young Band at some seedy dive and remarking that the show was amazing, and there are other snippets scattered between the tracks, which can be distracting. Once you get past that, however, Passion offers some decent songs about everything from war and fascination to love and infatuation. "An Accurate Portrayal of Amy," one of the album's high points, starts off with Young singing along with his acoustic twelve-string and ends with a rocking coda. On slower acoustic cuts like "You Became a Thing" and "War and Peace," Young channels Bob Dylan's slight rasp. And the heavier numbers thrown in to round things out make it clear that Young and company have no problem rocking out.
  

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