Interview with Young Hines

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Young Hines, from Griffin, GA, got his name as being unnamed at birth and the being the youngest of seven kids. So, some unknown person wrote “Young Mr. Hines” on his patient info sheet and it just stuck.


You can definitely hear Young’s strong musical influences in his album filled with wonderfully crafted songs. His path to get his first record, “Give Me My Change” happened quite organically and by chance. Young was living and playing shows in Chicago. He played clubs and sold his albums making a living like every musician does. The songs he wrote took inspiration from a certain style of taped home studio recordings like, oddly enough, "Lapalco" among others.

Then something unique and a little sympatico happened.

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