Styx releases live album with youth orchestra
Out on Tuesday, November 7th, is One With Everything: Styx & The Contemporary Youth Orchestra, which is a CD taken from the special performance Styx did back in May with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland. The band took the stage with the teenaged symphonic musicians at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to play fleshed-out versions of standards including "Renegade" and "Blue Collar Man," as well as their hit cover of the Beatles classic "I Am The Walrus." Styx also premiered two songs at the gig -- "Just Be," and "Everything, All The Time."
Singer-guitarist James "J.Y." Young told us that playing for and with younger people is a natural thing for Styx: "Something about our music is timeless -- maybe a number of things are. And that's not really me bragging, that's just an observation that our music continues to connect with the next generation of fans as they come along. I mean, we have three generations of fans that are coming to see us, and a young audience... a growing young audience in the crowd, and a young audience on stage performing with us is just -- it's an amazing show, and we're having an amazing year."
The Contemporary Youth Orchestra has previously worked with such artists as Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, Graham Nash, Yes frontman Jon Anderson, and Pat Benatar and her guitarist husband Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, but this was the first time the kids had ever performed with a full-on rock band.
In two weeks (November 21st), a One With Everything DVD will be released. The footage will also air in high-definition on the HDNet cable channel starting November 19th, and as a PBS special beginning in December.
Styx heads back out on the road beginning next Thursday (November 16th) in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Singer-guitarist James "J.Y." Young told us that playing for and with younger people is a natural thing for Styx: "Something about our music is timeless -- maybe a number of things are. And that's not really me bragging, that's just an observation that our music continues to connect with the next generation of fans as they come along. I mean, we have three generations of fans that are coming to see us, and a young audience... a growing young audience in the crowd, and a young audience on stage performing with us is just -- it's an amazing show, and we're having an amazing year."
The Contemporary Youth Orchestra has previously worked with such artists as Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, Graham Nash, Yes frontman Jon Anderson, and Pat Benatar and her guitarist husband Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, but this was the first time the kids had ever performed with a full-on rock band.
In two weeks (November 21st), a One With Everything DVD will be released. The footage will also air in high-definition on the HDNet cable channel starting November 19th, and as a PBS special beginning in December.
Styx heads back out on the road beginning next Thursday (November 16th) in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
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