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Wasted Youth

by Mick Kolassa

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    Mick Kolassa has once again teamed up with Jeff Jensen to put together a package of fun. Following the critically acclaimed IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD, WASTED YOUTH is a collection of a dozen tracks with 14 songs, 11 of which are Kolassa originals

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1.
Throwing Away These Blues 02:30
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2.
Wasted Youth 04:51
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3.
It Hurts to Let You Go 05:57
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4.
I'm Missing You 03:49
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5.
Easy Doesn't Live Here 03:17
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6.
I Can't Get Enough 02:57
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7.
Feeling Sorry For Myself 03:02
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8.
Touching Bass 03:22
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9.
Darkness to Light 05:24
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10.
My Mind Doesn't Wander 03:13
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11.
Pieces of My Past 06:22
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12.
Edge Of A Razor 03:07
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Mick Kolassa has once again teamed up with Jeff Jensen to put
together a package of fun. Following the critically acclaimed
If You Can’t Be Good, Wasted Youth is a collection of a dozen
tracks with 14 songs, 11 of which are Kolassa originals.
The Covid year of 2020, during which Mick lost his wife and
several friends, inspired many of the songs on this album.
The album begins with “Throwing Away These Blues”,
which is about not letting life get you down. The title track,
“Wasted Youth”, speaks to the fact that youth isn’t truly
appreciated until it’s gone. Mick wrote “It Hurts to Let You
Go” about the inevitability of loss in all of our lives.
The pace gets changed with “I’m Missing You”, a funky and
danceable love song. “Easy Doesn’t Live Here”, with David
Julia adding some guitar magic, is another love song, noting
how difficult love can really be! On “I Can’t Get Enough” Mick
is joined by another guitar playing friend, Anthony Paule.
Mick then turns to the downside of 2020 and the things that
happened with the song “Feeling Sorry for Myself”, but bounces
back with a love song about separation, “Touching Bass”, on
which Bill Ruffino’s mastery of the Fender Bass is featured.
“Darkness to Light” is a medley of three of Mick’s favorite songs:
War’s “Slipping Into Darkness”, The Youngbloods’ “Darkness
Darkness”, and the old spiritual “Wayfaring Stranger”. By
approaching them with a reggae feeling Mick and the band highlight
the similarities and differences among these classic songs, and Jeff
teams up with violinist Alice Hasen to provide some exciting solos.
“My Mind Doesn’t Wander” is another love song, this one
featuring Brandon Santini on harmonica. “Pieces of My Past”,
which is a slow blues, came about as Mick was moving to his
new home, which necessitated downsizing
and getting rid of “pieces of his past”. It
seemed a fitting memorial to 2020.
The album ends with “Edge of a
Razor”. Which tells the story many of
the hard-working women Mick knows
and respects. This song consists of
three acoustic guitars and Mick’s
vocal, with Mick finger picking the
basic structure, Jeff strumming the
chords and their friend Albert Castiglia
playing slide guitar to round it out.

credits

released July 31, 2021

Mick Kolassa VOCALS AND GUITAR // Jeff Jensen
GUITAR // Bill Rufino BASS // Rick Steff
KEYBOARDS // James Cunningham DRUMS
(1,7,8,11) // Doug McMinn DRUMS (2,3,4,5,6,9,10)
// Tullie Brae BACKING VOCALS (1,5,9) // Eric
Hughes HARMONICA (2) // Brandon Santini
HARMONICA (10) // Marc Franklin TRUMPET //
Kirk Smothers SAXOPHONES // Brad Webb SLIDE
GUITAR (2) // Albert Castiglia SLIDE GUITAR (12)
// David Julia GUITAR (5) // Anthony Paule GUITAR
(6) // Victor Wainwright PIANO (7) // Alice Hasen
VIOLIN (9) // Vickey Loveland CONGA DRUMS (5,9)

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Mick Kolassa Memphis, Tennessee

I’m Mick Kolassa, a lifelong musician and hardcore blues fan who, in addition to being an active blues artist, also am head of Endless Blues Records and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Blues Foundation. I live in Memphis but was born in Michigan and lived in Mississippi for nearly 30 years, where I was given the nickname “Michissippi Mick”. ... more

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