Young Guv - GUV III & IV (Yellow Vinyl)

In the spring of 2020, Ben Cook – a.k.a. Young Governor, Young Guv, or just Guv – was holed up in the New Mexico high desert, his U.S. tour having been abruptly covid-cancelled during a southwest swing. He and his bandmates were living moment to moment in something called an Earthship, a solar-rigged adobe structure sustainably constructed with, among other things, recycled bottles and tires. And out there in the serene vastness, as a short ride-it-out stint turned into a nine-month sojourn, Ben was writing music, slowly, little by little, mostly at night while the others slept. By the New Year, almost in spite of himself, he had created a new album, two new albums actually, and through the ordeal he was forever changed.
In a place he never expected to be, under circumstances no one could have predicted, and in the face of physical isolation, emotional desolation, and existential dread, Ben created GUV III & IV, a collection of songs dedicated and testifying to the eternal healing power of love – how to find it in the world, in others, and most importantly, in himself.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1 Couldn”t Leave U If I Tried
• 2 It”s Only Dancin”
• 3 Lo Lo Lonely
• 4 Only Wanna See U Tonight
• 5 Good Time
• 6 Take Up All My Time
• 7 But I Ain”t Got U
• 8 Same Old Fool
• 9 She Don”t Cry for Anyone
• 10 Scam Likely
• 11 April of My Life
• – Disc 2 –
• 1 Too Far Gone
• 2 Change Your Mind
• 3 Sign from God
• 4 Overcome
• 5 Love Me Don”t Leave Me
• 6 Cry 2 Sleep
• 7 Cold in the Summer
• 8 Maybe I Should Luv Somebody Else
• 9 Helium
• 10 Nervous Around U
• 11 Nowhere at All
• 12 Wind in My Blood