|
Ringtones of Stone's Songs for
NOT FINISHED YET - Coming Soon This record represents a new birth in my music. It is a much lighter weight than the previous records in terms of content. It is lyrically and rhythmically driven, but it's very organic. It's joy with a little bit of pain, falling in love and funny stories about real life idiosyncrasies. Living life in bliss and happiness and not being afraid to write about it. Even so I manage to purge a song about the first and last visit to my Mother's grave ("When You Go Home Today") and of course, I've had enough pain in my life to fill volumes of music libraries, so there will always be that material coming out of my heart. Sometime's I think that's what it takes to be a singer/songwriter. However, It think if you like music for it's enjoyment, you'll love this record, it's "intelligent groove". I can't wait to finish it!
LIVE AT THE OAKLAND - 2006 Recorded at The Oakland Theater in Youngstown, OH, by Closerlook Studios www.closerlookrecording.com. Mixed and Mastered by Tyler Owen. This an intimate solo portrait. It contains some new material that appears on Not Finished Yet and it is one of my favorite ways to perform. I love to move my way thru the audience with a voice and my strings. I am a bit candid in this record as well, I hope you enjoy the banter.
RUSHMORE Recorded at Closerlook Studios by Tyler Owen www.closerlookrecording.com. Mixed by Mark Owen, Mastered at Sterling. First single, "No Fool" released to 1,300 international radio stations. RushMore is a mountain to be topped for sure. The blood sweat and tears that went into this record may never be relived. It was a true joy to work with Tyler on this and all the other wonderful people that made it possible, including some heroes like Joey Hanna (Coach), Joe Rohan, Phil Ajjarapu, Shawn Appleton and many others. This is an eclectic collection of songs that I have written over quite some time. Many are deep and dear to me. "Bury Me" is about my Mother's funeral on a cold winter day. These are tails of a journey that I don't regret, and have painfully shaped me to the person I am today. At that same time, it moves and grooves and gracefully powers it's way thru to the end. A true masterpiece in production.
MY HEART Recorded at PDR Studios in Akron. First Single "Scattered". Released to 500 AAA stations with a 60% play rate. Second Single "Lullaby" released to 1,000 contemporary stations, charted at #14 in Power Source Magazine. My first attempt at this thing called music. This is my song to the world in a sense, here I am, here are some of the things that I dream up and paint onto tape. I don't often tell what my songs are about, but I wanted to pick a few to let you know what I have seen. "My Heart" is written out of a sad situation where mine and my cousin's friends were murdered just 30 minutes after we left the building they were in and how I pondered my purpose here after escaping that for no apparent reason. "City of Wrong" is my song about how we hurt people we love even when we don't intend to. I wrote this record pretty much note for note and I was able to record it over a long period of time which allowed me to rework things at my leisure. I am still in love with this record.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
