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Since we last saw Yvette Young in 2019, the guitar-playing musical illustrator has been challenged, and proven courageous.

\\u201cI 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,\\u201d Young revealed to PG earlier this year. She parted ways with Covet\\u2019s members during the recording sessions for the new album, Catharsis, and had the bass parts re-done by noted touring and session bassist Jon Button.

Through the writing and recording process she found personal purification. \\u201cI feel like, on Catharsis, 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,\\u201d Young said. \\u201cMusic is transformative. If you\\u2019re 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.\\u201d

And while processing her feelings through the guitar, she became reinvigorated with the instrument and rediscovered its inherent joy.

\\u201cI really have to be my own fortress and I have to really stay in tune with what excites me,\\u201d admitted Young. \\u201cThe direction I go in becomes really clear when I focus on what gives me goosebumps when I\\u2019m playing, what makes me jump up and down \\u2019cause I\\u2019m so excited about it.\\u201d

Her charismatic, vivid guitar stories excite us, so we wanted to get the scoop on her ever-changing tools and palette. Weeks after releasing Catharsis, Yvette Young and her Covet bandmates headlined Nashville\\u2019s Brooklyn Bowl. She invited PG\\u2019s Chris Kies onstage for a conversation covering her Ibanez YY10 signature models (and their potential upcoming changes), her dream pedal, and the key switches (and the alternative tones they produce) on her stomp station since the last Rundown.

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