South of Eden's Justin Young: "For me, the guitar has got to have a lot of grit"

South of Eden's Justin Young
(Image credit: John Payne)

When Ohio rockers South of Eden released a cover of Audioslave’s Show Me How to Live last year, they never imagined that its writer – Tom Morello – much less the world, would take an interest.

Morello gave the song a shoutout on Twitter, calling it a “rocking cover”. The band’s debut EP, The Talk, likewise turned heads, an equally rocking preview of their debut full-length, which is out this year.

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Joshua M. Miller

Josh is a freelance journalist who has spent the past dozen or so years interviewing musicians for a variety of publications, including Guitar World, GRAMMY.com, SPIN, Chicago Sun-Times, MTV News, Rolling Stone and American Songwriter. He credits his father for getting him into music. He's been interested in discovering new bands ever since his father gave him a list of artists to look into. A favorite story his father told him is when he skipped a high school track meet to see Jimi Hendrix in concert. For his part, seeing one of his favorite guitarists – Mike Campbell – feet away from him during a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers concert is a special moment he’ll always cherish.