Pegi Young Premieres Video for "Trying to Live My Life Without You"

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On  February 17,  Pegi Young   heads out on her own with a new albumRaw, a collection of songs about love, loss and forgiveness. The album will be available digitally and physically via Baltimore Thrush Records and is currently available for pre-order via Amazon and iTunes (includes instant downloads of "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind," "Too Little Too Late," and "Trying To Live My Life Without You").

Today, Entertainment Weekly premiered the video for the song "Trying To Live My Life Without You."
 
Watch the video HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oai7LvGc0FA
 
"This song clearly addresses the changes in my personal life over the recent years," Pegi told Entertainmet Weekly. "Having lived with, raised a family, and shared a close and personal relationship with another person for 36 years, being alone again takes some getting used to."

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Previously,  NPR Music   shared  an impassioned cover of  Ray Charles'   "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" and called the album, "...a searching, tough and vulnerable memoir that bravely explores all the corners of heartbreak, from blunt-force anger to sorrow to brief winks of humor." 
 
Pegi Young’s compelling and personal new album  Raw  is a mix of original songs written with storied Muscle Shoals musician  Spooner Oldham  and artfully executed covers.
 
Young wrote most of Raw in the wake of her 2014 separation and divorce from Neil Young, to whom she’d been married for over thirty-six years. Recently, Pegi spoke with  Rolling Stone  about her album and what she’s been doing with herself lately. "Writing [Raw] was very cathartic for me," Young says. "What happened was real, but I also look at this record as having a universal quality to it. I’m certainly not the only one to go through a late-in-life divorce, and I’m not going to be the last."
 
The songs aren’t all expressions of anger. The first track to be released from Raw is "Too Little Too Late”,  a raw and poetic psalm of regret. The album’s emotional palette ranges from "Gave My Best to You" and Pegi’s take on "These Boots are Made for Walkin’”, both conveying resilience and sass, to a gorgeous stripped-down version of Don Henley’s "The Heart of the Matter," which explores the grace of forgiveness. As a whole, the album is a journey from shock to rage, from sadness to strength, but not necessarily in that order.
 
Young says, "I’ve begun to look at this record as a soundtrack to the seven stages of grief," she says. "And each song could be sung by either party."
 
In addition to Spooner Oldham, Young's band The Survivors features Muscle Shoals-based guitarist  Kelvin Holly (a veteran of Little Richard’s band), drummer Phil Jones (Tom Petty, Joe Walsh), and bassist Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers), who’ve added soulful muscle to the sonic texture.  
 
Excited about the prospect of sharing her new music and playing out live, the singer/songwriter/philanthropist/environmentalist and new grandmother jokes "I just might be eligible to win a nomination for 'Oldest Best New Artist Award' this time out."
 
Pegi Young & The Survivors will tour in support of Raw later this year and will perform at the 2017 SXSW Music Conference.
 
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Track List:
 
1) Why?
2) Give My Best To You
3) Too Little Too Late
4) Trying To Live My Life Without You
5) A Thousand Tears
6) Lonely
7) Just When I Needed You Most
8) Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
9) You Won't Take My Laugh From Me
10) Up To Here
11) These Boots Are Made For Walking
12) Heart Of The Matter