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Youngest Son

Wheaton, IL Singer Songwriter / Folk / Experimental

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Members: Steve Slagg (piano, vocals, blogging)

Sounds Like: Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Randy Newman, the Mountain Goats, Joanna Newsom

Label: Unsigned

Manager: Blade Barringer

Bio: Youngest Son is the songwriting project of Steve Slagg, who grew up playing Chopin and hymns on the piano and listening to his sister's chick-rock mixtapes on a tiny portable boombox with rainbow colored buttons. Son of a Methodist minister and an elementary school teacher, Steve spent his adoles... See Full Bio

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: RT @JasonIsbell: My father's industrial park job I mentioned in "Outfit" was at a place called 'Southeastern'. Thanks, Dad, for many years …

Press

"...a bona fide diamond in the rough." (All Saints' Day review - 4.5 / 5 stars)

— Ryan Getz, I Am Tuned Up

“...though the stories his words weave are tragically poignant, the manner is light-hearted and funny.”

— Jeffrey Coleman, Media Runner

“Youngest Son is actually pretty damn good... a foreboding prepared piano performance that'll give any listener goosebumps. (review of Youngest Son's track on Tallahassee Turns Ten: a Mountain Goats Cover Album)”

— Andrew Ciraulo, No Ripcord

“Listening to the EP and reading the accompanying posts is like climbing into Mr. Slagg’s brain, popping quarters into old-timey vignette-movie viewers and watching him wrestle. He wrestles with death. He wrestles with faith. He wrestles to find self-definition in a world that values labels more than the people it applies them to and he does it to a soundtrack that is far from boring. Steve Slagg writes intelligent pop music. He writes songs with geology jokes. He writes musical theater. He writes long, wordy, syllable-bingeing character studies and sparse, pretty ballads. All the while never losing sight of his main goal: tell a good story.”

— Matt Tanaka, Indie Monday

“that cd you left in my car? the one with worship music and swearing? that was...weird. but the piano was really, really good. and what was that line about the uh...what was it...'he looked 12, she looked 15 and a half'? i loved that! haha!”

— Steve's roommate's dad

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Craters of the Moon

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When I See You

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Think About Your Tr…

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Wake

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Fri
Jun 21

Gallery 200
West Chicago, IL, US | 7:00pm
Gallery 200
West Chicago, IL, US
Fri Jun 21 7:00pm
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part of West Chicago's Local Music Night