![]() Youldens latestCLOSING TIME (2018, Last Music) is the result of those sessions.Ī 2011 appearance at Glastonbury Festival notwithstanding, Youlden has been largely out of the frame for over two decades sincenonetheless, his art endures. The sessions yielded an albums worth of materialincluding one new original, I Wanna Stay Alive, but the tapes got mothballed.Īnother weekend session took place in 1991 with Geraint Watkins joining on piano and organ, but again, the tapes were archived. The OTs performed to packed audiences, with a parade of British luminaries sitting in such as Jo Anne Kelly, Phil May, Dick Taylor, Paul Jones, the Jona Lewie, Wayne Kramer, Lew Lewis and Bill Hurley. Youlden was first introduced to Kim Simmonds when he was recruited by Martin Stone as a last-minute dep for Brice Portius one night, and it was Stone again, in 1979, that encouraged Youlden to return to the stage and join him as lead vocalist in a house blues band (The OTs) that was being formed for a Sunday night residency at Dingwalls in Londons Camden Town.
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