Timothy Young

Timothy Young is a masterfully diverse West Coast guitarist whose skills have enlivened a slew of recordings and shows over the years, often as a collaborator, sideman, or session player rather than bandleader. Able to leap from heavy metal crunch to extended jazz-funk jamming, twangy Americana, effects-laden experimentalism, and Hendrixian pyrotechnics, he has also veered away from his straight guitar-playing role into realms of artful indie pop -- for example, putting a singular spin on the Bacharach/David chestnut "Walk on By" with his wife Eryn in the Youngs. Difficult to ...