Yvette Young [2023]

<p>Since we last saw&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxJ2EB5sfug&amp;ab_channel=PremierGuitar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yvette Young in 2019</a>, the guitar-playing musical illustrator has been challenged, and proven courageous.</p><p>“I went from a situation where I was afraid of one of my bandmates, and did what I needed to do to free myself from what I felt to be an emotionally, and thus creatively draining, situation,” Young&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/yvette-young-breaks-free" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">revealed to&nbsp;<em>PG</em>&nbsp;earlier this year</a>. She parted ways with Covet’s members during the recording sessions for the new album,&nbsp;<em>Catharsis</em>, and had the bass parts re-done by noted touring and session bassist Jon Button.</p><p>Through the writing and recording process she found personal purification. “I feel like, on&nbsp;<em>Catharsis</em>, some of the songs are a bit darker and it was definitely me having an outlet for some stuff that was painful, but a lot of it is uplifting and very happy and dance-y,” Young said. “Music is transformative. If you’re ever feeling in a bad mood, if you write music that sounds really happy, it can uplift you. Writing music that sounds like how you wish you felt can be really helpful sometimes.”</p><p>And while processing her feelings through the guitar, she became reinvigorated with the instrument and rediscovered its inherent joy.</p><p>“I really have to be my own fortress and I have to really stay in tune with what excites me,” admitted Young. “The direction I go in becomes really clear when I focus on what gives me goosebumps when I’m playing, what makes me jump up and down ’cause I’m so excited about it.”</p><p>Her charismatic, vivid guitar stories excite&nbsp;<em>us</em>, so we wanted to get the scoop on her ever-changing tools and palette. Weeks after releasing&nbsp;<em>Catharsis</em>, Yvette Young and her Covet bandmates headlined Nashville’s&nbsp;<a href="https