Squirrels is Jubal Lee Young’s second album release in as many years, and he sees it as a companion piece to 2024’s Wild Birds Warble.
There is a significant difference, though, in that Wild Birds… only contained one self-penned song, and was predominantly a tribute to his father Steve Young’s influence (Young senior had written songs for the likes of the Eagles and Waylon Jennings, and was a significant figure in the ‘outlaw country’ movement of the 70’s).
Squirrels, meanwhile, has an abundance of original tracks, with Young stating eleven are recent songs written as “a late bloomer. And I would say slow learner, but it’s more of a thorough, deliberate, plodding sort of learning process.”
Now in his 50s, Young has found himself in…