Young Hines began playing music at age 12. After spending years playing music in the Roaches, his 60's cover band and opening for the likes of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, a demo of his found its way to Brendan Benson, who not only produced Young's debut, Give Me My Change, in the all-analog Nashville studio, Welcome to 1979, but also released it as the first signee on his newly formed Readymade Records.