Young Guv - Guv III & IV [2LP/ Ltd Ed 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