I-95 Drive Home Featured Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist is in a band whose member have very diverse styles and everyone writes and contribute songs to each album.  Tonight's artist describes his writing style as more narrow, and says of the few things he's written, he wanted to made sure that the band had a rock edge presented on every record. Can you name the band and its bonafide rock n’ roller?

The band is Styx and the self-professed rocker is James “JY” Young, who in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock he said:  I’m a pure rocker and in many ways, the skill set of the band didn’t lend itself to pure rock exactly. If I’d had a voice that had a little bit more bluesy soulful [feel] as opposed to the screaming white man, I probably would have been more prolific with it. But definitely, heavy rock is my favorite thing. I saw Jimi Hendrix play five times and I saw the Jeff Beck Group when Rod Stewart was on lead vocals and Ron Wood was the bass player. I [also] saw the Who a number of times live and that was really more the music that I wanted to do. But Dennis had far more pop melodic leanings than I did and even Tommy was more of an R&B/pop guy who could rock with the best of them. So all kinds of different things came out of Tommy and Dennis. My stuff was more narrow, because the few things that I did write, I wanted to make sure that the band had a rock edge presented on every record.

Here they are with tonight's featured song.