{"id":2834,"date":"2025-07-18T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:37:28","slug":"father-son-collaboration-on-the-song-con-job-recorded-by-boston-band-the-dogmatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"Father &#038; Son collaboration on the song &#8220;Con Job&#8221; recorded by Boston band The Dogmatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Young&#8217;s son James has been playing music over the years, initially with <a href=\"https:\/\/thehiredmen.com\/\">The Hired Men<\/a> and now also with <a href=\"https:\/\/thedogmatics.com\/\">The Dogmatics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, James helped his dad start this blog and assisted him in creating early posts until Rick felt comfortable posting new content directly.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Rick also shared multiple song lyrics, and James has put two to music so far. The first one James set was <em>Play the Roll<\/em>, and the second was <em>Con Job<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hired Men would often play <em>Con Job<\/em> live, and we are glad Rick got to hear some early renditions. When the rest of the Dogmatics heard it, they liked it and wanted to eventually record it in Rick&#8217;s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the newly released song that&#8217;s part of &#8220;Nowheresville,&#8221; the latest full-length release from The Dogmatics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=978794016\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/track=3385077840\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dogmatics.bandcamp.com\/album\/nowheresville\">Nowheresville by The Dogmatics<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCon Job\u201d<br \/>\nLyrics by Rick Young, Music by James Young<br \/>\nLead vocals, Mandolin, Whistling \u2013 James Young<br \/>\nLead &amp; acoustic guitar, Backing vocals \u2013 Peter O\u2019Halloran<br \/>\nRhythm guitar \u2013 Jerry Lehane<br \/>\nBass \u2013 Jimmy O\u2019Halloran<br \/>\nDrums \u2013 Tom Long<\/p>\n<p>While you are at it, <a href=\"https:\/\/dogmatics.bandcamp.com\/album\/nowheresville\">listen to the full ten song album on Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW here&#8217;s a capture of the original email Rick sent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2839\" src=\"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn-1280x900.jpg\" alt=\"Con Job email\" width=\"780\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn-1280x900.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn-800x563.jpg 800w, https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Con_Job_email_from_Dad_11-12-2013_rtn.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Young&#8217;s son James has been playing music over the years, initially with The Hired Men and now also with The Dogmatics. In 2013, James helped his dad start this blog and assisted him in creating early posts until Rick felt comfortable posting new content directly. At that time, Rick also shared multiple song lyrics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[41,20,42,43],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song","tag-dogmatics","tag-song","tag-thedogmatics","tag-thehiredmen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2747,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2747","url_meta":{"origin":2834,"position":0},"title":"Richard Young September 14, 1947 \u2013 September 25, 2022","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick's family is sad to share that he passed away. 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