Adrienne Young readies new album

After bundling seed packets into the liner notes of her Grammy-nominated first album, Nashville-based singer/songwriter/activist Adrienne Young will once again use music to further her environmental convictions.

Young has integrated a national responsible-farming awareness campaign into the May 22 release of Room to Grow, the much-awaited follow-up to 2005’s The Art of Virtue, and she will donate a portion of every record sold to a newly established fund that supports local farming efforts.

Recorded in upstate New York at Levon Helm's studio and in Virginia at Sound of Music Studios, Room to Grow will be released on Young’s own AddieBelle Records and distributed by Ryko. The album features guest appearances by Mike Gordon and Gordon Stone of Phish, long-time collaborator Will Kimbrough and bluegrass siren Dale Ann Bradley.

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