Young Tobacco is the first full-length album and fourth studio recording by Jonathon Newby (as JC Autobody). It was released on February 16, 2015 by Young Tobacco Records and features eleven original songs.

The album explores a more polished sound influenced by metal antecedents Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, and introduces elements of electric blues with the addition of blues guitarist Sonny Yingst and organist Caleb Crockett. The album's imagery draws from B-movies, exploitation films and muscle car culture, with lyrical themes that include individualism, recklessness and mortality.

Songs from Young Tobacco have been played live in Chicago, Indianapolis and Muncie, IN, and have been used in a number of television shows including Riverdale and Lucifer.

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Lyrics

Hammer Down

baby ride baby ride gonna get no sleep tonight with the top down on the black top ride the lightning four on the floor yeah / thrill me kiss the keychain what's the word for devil dares i say hey evil kineval jump the wall and slam the hammer / play with fire power steering leather jacket golden earring shift the eightball yeah grind til you find four on the floor yeah / fast lane engineering baby i built this hot rod i say hey jump the wall ding dang a bing bong / i’m outside in the parking lot in my car my baby got my leather jacket on it’s 3AM and the moon is burning red i see my face by the glow of a cigarette get the lead out / yeah hammer down grip the wheel and gonna slam the hammer down

Got Your Number

I got your number it’s on my phone but you’d never be with me alone / i got a reflex under the bone but you won’t come smell my cheap cologne / i feel a darkness coming along oh baby please won’t you come home / I got your number it’s got a tone i got it locked in speed dial / but you never answer your damn phone cause I’m waiting wicked woman

Dancing in the Fire

always the same got stuck with the blame not gonna play your game never did what you claim / you try to make me crawl you try to make me stall you never had no shame / always gives you a thrill going in for the kill add another scar tell the story of what you are / tell the one where you win tell us all again and again you never have no shame / dancing in the fire / dancing like a mountain man / overhaul

Devil Driver

on the walls outside the city aerosol is painted black / purple flames upon the subway train / a graffiti heart attack / just a picture of a mercury like a signal in the grey just a rally cry for one to see/ barracuda monocaine / down an alleyway the hunter waits with a boot upon the gas / wind whispers like a banshee distant rumble sewer rat / beat it on the overpasses beat it on the freeway / yeah devil driver

The Highway Man

on the highway the time before the dawn is always the darkest / lightning the world is at an end and i see a spotlight / steady the rain is coming down down my neck it's cold / yeah i'm walking in the street because i'm abandoned / a slender man is walking up the path to my way / a monster every single mother's child is frightened / he reaches out his hand and i see my face in the glow / take a long long breath sleep in the arms of death feel yourself possessed in dreams of the Highway Man / a mirage, lighter flame hang a picture in a frame from the mirror looking back in the fog he wrote your name he’s gone again / out on the highway standing in the road two hours to morning just as he foretold

Primitive

i got a stick in my craw cuz that’s the way i walk i got my spit in a can cuz that’s the way i am / tell by the look on your face you’re alone and afraid think i’m an outlaw off the chain gonna kiss your cheek with a wooden baseball bat (no) / look through my pockets and all you’ll see is holes these pants are made just for walkin so walk on in the cold / i got some grease on my fingers i don’t know where i’ve been got some dirt under my nails and my ears, your mama said / i’m primitive ain’t got no problems i’m just walkin don’t want no trouble / oh yeah i’m out of fashion but longer lastin it’s all i’ve ever been i’m primitive

War Machine

one dollar bill stuck inside the wheels some trucker speed stuck in the seat / i go all night without getting sleep engine’s alright run it out the back door / a thousand hooves under the hood my nailhead is white black and red fender painted flames / danger is my name i have a need for speed four on the floor yeah / like a cherry bomb like genghis khan on fire in the street ride my shotgun seat a flaming tire smell and with a rebel yell i do a detroit lean inside my war machine / I’ll shut em down around the bend i’ll shut em down / the wicked winding road is paved with good intentions i will follow you to everlasting redemption

Nun'Yunu'Wi (Dressed in Stone)

magic evil power looking to devour dogs are getting louder walking in the midnight hour / legend unknown wicked to the bone a cane to lead you home forever will you roam / sound the drum dressed in stone evil one

dressed in stone / flames get higher dressed in stone funeral pyre dressed in stone / oh yeah run to safety oh yeah come on baby

Borrowed Time (Borrowed World and Borrowed Eyes with which to Sorrow It)

woke up this morning woke up for one last time / me and the devil we gonna go for a ride / i won’t be comin / i won’t be coming round here / if you ask me where i’m goin i’m gonna disappear

Stormbringer

smoke on the horizon drivers on the storm black camaro rising el camino swarm / a bloody moon is rising watch the sun go down dark Orion shining midnight ramble on / shifting down the mountain cutting through the fog round the curve of a dead man runnin from the law / drive like you gamble reckless / bring on the storm

She's On Fire (As Hard As She Can)

there’s someone i’m seein tonight she’s a girl i’ve known all my life she’s got a mind that’s just like mine it’s filled with trash / i’m sayin when we get together it’s gonna be some real bad weather the kind i like when she’s on fire as hard as she can / she got an eight ball on her shifter a pair of dice hangin from the mirror / some little dots under the skin of her hand / we cruise along at 95 another am radio night she spins the dial cause she’s on fire as hard as she can

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