Comments on: 100 Greatest Men: #39. Faron Young http://www.countryuniverse.net/2012/08/12/100-greatest-men-39-faron-young/ Thu, 23 May 2013 03:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul W Dennis http://www.countryuniverse.net/2012/08/12/100-greatest-men-39-faron-young/#comment-1186167 Paul W Dennis Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:32:13 +0000 http://www.countryuniverse.net/?p=22524#comment-1186167 Faron Young could sing anything from Hillbilly to Classic Pop and do it well. My favorite Faron Young songs are from the Mercury period starting with “Wine Me Up” in 1969 and lasting through about 1974, but I like music from the entire breadth of his career.

Faron was involved in an automobile accident sometime in the late 1960s (as I recall) in which he suffered a significant tongue injury which affected his ability to enunciate the letter “s” and forced some changes in the material Faron selected for recording and performing

Starting out as a Hank Williams clone, Faron Young was able to develop a singularly individual style that screamed ‘Faron Young’ the second he opened his mouth. He has two sons who perform and are worth seeing, but neither of them is Faron Young. There was only one Faron Young and I wish he was still around, recording great material

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