 | Youth and Young Manhood - Kings Of Leon
Publisher: Hand Me Down
Released on 21 August 2003
List Price: £7.99
Kings of Leon are four members of the Followill family, three brothers and a cousin. The title Youth & Young Manhood is an accurate summary of their places in life--the oldest member, drummer Nathan Followill, is 23, while the youngest, bass player Jared Followill, is just 16. The brothers had a childhood that was both eccentric and peripatetic, living out of a car while their preacher father toured the southern United States, and have most recently been living in Nashville; they don't appear, judging by this startlingly assured debut, to have been unduly traumatised by either experience. Kings of Leon, up to and including their haircuts and moustaches, are steeped in the rock & roll of the American south: Youth & Young Manhood is largely four-square boogie whose ideal setting would be a bar with sawdust on the floor and chicken wire protecting the stage. The Kings of Leon do not have a single formative influence drawn from within their own lifetimes--they clearly... Read More
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| Red Morning Light | Happy Alone | Wasted Time | Joes Head |
| Tranny | California Waiting | Spiral Staircase | Mollys Chambers |
| Genuis | O Dusty | Holy Roller Novocaine | Talihina Sky (Hidden Track) |
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