The Blue Door

Joel Melton is a fulltime artist who works in mixed media consisting of usually, watercolor, pencil, pen and ink, acrylic AND songwriter performing musician. JUBAL LEE YOUNG There are generally certain expectations that accompany the careers of any offspring born to famous parents. After all, it's naturally assumed that the bloodline will assure the gene pool remains intact. Consider then the anticipation that might greet the son of not one, but two, accomplished individuals. In order to succeed, it takes not only an extraordinary amount of talent, but the ability to demonstrate one's own talent and tenacity. That said, credit Jubal Lee Young for taking the lessons from his famous forebears - his father, Steve Young, was an initial inspiration within the outlaw country movement and known for penning the Eagles standard "Seven Bridges Road" and Waylon Jennings' signature song "Lonesome, On'ry & Mean," and his mother, Terrye Newkirk who composed the archival originals "My Oklahoma" and "Come Home, Daddy" and was one of the Tulsa Oklahoma contingent that migrated to Los Angeles in the mid'‘60s and made their mark in the music scene there. Early on, it was his mom's record collection that helped inspire his enduring infatuation with music.