“I quit teaching art to go tour and be a musician. I didn’t sign up for the drama, or the stalkers, or the business side”: Yvette Young almost left music before taking a radical solo turn – but she’s not done with Covet

“I want to make music and do things that make me happy,” says art teacher turned shred technician Yvette Young. “I spent a year dealing with legal battles. That’s gross. It was either quit, or do something radical. I’m taking the radical position.”

Her latest single, Alwaysproves as much. It’s less tap-happy shred and more melody-driven washes of uber-cool sounds. There’s more to come from her following the wranglings with her former bandmates in Covet.

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Andrew Daly is an iced-coffee-addicted, oddball Telecaster-playing, alfredo pasta-loving journalist from Long Island, NY, who, in addition to being a contributing writer for Guitar World, scribes for Rock Candy, Bass Player, Total Guitar, and Classic Rock History. Andrew has interviewed favorites like Ace Frehley, Johnny Marr, Vito Bratta, Bruce Kulick, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Rich Robinson, and Paul Stanley, while his all-time favorite (rhythm player), Keith Richards, continues to elude him.