Youth & Young Manhood the Decade list. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Youth & Young Manhood Youth & Young Manhood is the debut album from American rock band Kings of Leon, released on July 7, 2003, in the United Kingdom and on August 19, 2003, in the United States. The title was taken from a drawing of the family tree of Moses, found on the inside of one of their Pentecostal preaching father's Bibles. Each branch contained a line that the band was quoted as saying could easily have passed for an album
Kings of Leon a more tense riff and different vocal style than the same track off "Youth and Young Manhood", the second being recorded in a rush to finish the EP. The EP also contains the song "Wicker Chair," while a track called "Andrea" was discarded before its release. The Followills' debut album, "Youth and Young Manhood", was released in the UK in July 2003 and in the United States later that August. The album was recorded between Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California. It was produced by Angelo Petraglia and Ethan Johns. According to "Rolling Stone"