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THE BLUES COWBOY RB Stone “He’s been called a Blues Cowboy, Country Bluesman, Americana Artist and Roots Rocker, and he answers yes to all.” - Michael Kinsman, Blues Revue Magazine RB Stone’s parents were huge music lovers; over 40,000 albums most of them at his shows. spending time entertaining military troops. his father, a blues/boogie, rock ‘n’ roller and He has a song catalog with Gwen Gordy of the Along the way, he recorded 15 albums. his mother, a fan of Tennessee Ernie Ford, Motown Dynasty at EMI. He’s had principal Janis Joplin, Herb Alpert, Johnny Cash, Sly roles in national commercials, appeared in The songs here are clever and sincere. They and the Family Stone, Elvis and the wide national music videos and his songs have are genuine blues in the way Hank Williams variety of hits from the 60’s. At 12, his mother been recorded by artists such as The Marshall wrote blues, not by following a chord showed him some chords on the piano and Tucker Band. RB has worked with many major progressions, but by following his heart. In Bill Withers’ hit “Lean On Me” was the first acts from Jazz Greats Hiroshima to The “Fairweather Friends,” Stone laments that his song he learned, which started the ball rolling Charlie Daniels Band, has a 14 piece Roots friends only come to see him when the sun is in his long blues/boogie composing career. Music Production Show featuring his songs, a gonna shine. “They want you when they need Billboard Magazine Songwriting award, to you/I don’t need what they want,” he wisely Eighteen and just out of high school, music name just a few of his achievements. surmises. In “The Devil’s Satisfied,” Stone was still a dream that seemed to belong to documents the tales of lives wasted on others, so he hired on with the railroad “He’s been called a Blues Cowboy, Country substance abuse. No surprise there, but the traveling the Midwest with a 90-man rail gang Bluesman, Americana Artist and Roots National steel of Kuykendall and Stone’s own four days a week. After two years he accepted Rocker, and he answers yes to all.” acoustic are the perfect fit for the tenor of the an offer as an assistant manager at a song with an all too common ending. plumbing, electric and heating store in Ohio, “Without a bit of background, the first listen to rose to the level of manager and accumulated R.B. Stone’s Lonesome Traveler’s Blues rings There is so much talk these days about giving a house, two cars, two trucks, and two with the authenticity of a bluesman who has the blues room to evolve, but so few examples motorcycles. been there and done that. Nothing is forced or of how it can do so organic and logically. contrived. This guy has been down all sorts of Stone’s work is a spark of inspiration at a time Restless at 23 RB sold everything but a truck, gravel roads, often face-first. Turns out this when even tried and true blues artists seem some harps and a guitar and headed to bluesman has a whole lifetime of Americana imprisoned by their own world and afraid to Colorado to be a cowboy and play music. and country music in his background. He’s be anything other than what they’ve always There he met a horse trainer and lived on an got a background as colorful as any been. It is doubtful that Stone ever thought of Indian Reservation in Ignacio where he slept mountainside spring day and songs that flow himself as a bluesman, but his songs reveal a in a barn learning horses by day and teaching as strong as runoff of winter’s snow. very real, gut-level dose of blues. This is very himself guitar at night. A few months later he good blues, played very generously from the got good enough at both and started getting Every bit of this work – from Stone’s achy soul.” hired by local outfitters to run back-country vocals to his honky-tonk harmonica solos to horse packing, wrangle horses and entertain Glen Kuykendall’s slide guitar and piercing Michael Kinsman - Blues Revue the guests around the campfire. solos – rings with the legitimacy of life’s experiences. The ten original songs here come Look for a new RB Stone CD in Spring 2013. Since those early beginnings, RB’s life and from Stone’s tenure as a worker on a traveling Produced by Grammy® winner Tom Hambridge career have taken many twists, turns, bumps railroad gang, breaking horses on a Colorado (Buddy Guy, BB King, James Cotton and more), and bruises accompanied by significant ranch and leading pack tours into the Rocky the new CD contains five new songs by RB, four accomplishments. Independent and flying Mountains for hunters and campers, various songs co-written by RB and Tom, and one song co- under the radar he has 15 albums under his stints as a plumber and a rodeo rider, a worker written by RB and Grammy® winning producer belt, toured 32 countries & 5 continents, sold in Hollywood doing commercials, and and long-time friend, Ray Kennedy. Middle Mountain Music 702.810.0162 www.RBStone.com THE BLUES COWBOY “We are just telling it like it is…truly killer music.” Robert Bartosh - Roots Music Report Festivals & Venues Reviews Awards & Discography RB Stone has played at festivals, corporate events “We’re lovin’ and spinnin’ the latest! Very cool, very Awards and venues around the world, including the cool indeed!” Mike Halmo, WBOR, Brunswick, Amway Corporation, Nagano, Japan; Bi-Lo Center Maine Billboard Magazine Songwriting Award for “Daddy Greenville, SC; California Theater, Riverside CA; Hide Your Daughters” City Amphitheater, Burlington, NC; City Park, St. “We are just telling it like it is…truly killer music.” Robert Bartosh, Roots Music Report Top 100 Picks for Must Purchase CDs- Real Blues George, UT; Coconino County Fair, Flagstaff, AZ; Magazine Copenhagen Music Fest, Copenhagen, Denmark; “RB is an extremely talented and charismatic artist Crossroads Arena, Corinth, MS; Ft. Lewis College, with timeless styling, who’s not afraid to push the #2 Airplay Direct Blues Chart Durango, CO; Hardin County Fair, Kenton, OH; musical limits and break the sound barriers.” Ray House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV; Jantzen Corp., #10 Roots Music Report Blues Chart Kennedy, Grammy® winning producer Vancouver, BC; Lester Palmer Auditorium, Austin, ICMA Lifetime Achievement Nominee TX; Mesquite Community Theater, Mesquite, NV; “With a voice that came right out of central casting, Mirande Music Fest, Mirande, France; Mr. Banjo Stone’s weathered baritone accompanied by his fine Discography Fest, Barcelona, Spain; Orange Coast Stadium, acoustic guitar and spirited harp playing define the Orange, CA; Oil Palace, Tyler, TX; Perris Sawdust archetype of what is a modern blues cowboy.” Rick 2013- NEW ALBUM COMING SOON! Festival, Perris, CA; Plaza Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, Bowen, No Depression 2011 – Lonesome Traveler’s Blues NV; Ramona Bowl, Hemet, CA; Realtors 2008 - Acoustic Stew Convention, Las Vegas, NV; River and Brews Blues “RB Stone is one of EMI Music Publishing’s 2002 - Country Rocker Fest, Red River, NM; Rock Around The Clock Fest, accomplished songwriters, a successful recording/ 1998 - American Music Winnsboro, SC; Sakura Theater, Iwakuni, Japan; touring artist, a gentleman of many interests and a 1997 - Live From Put In Bay Sam’s Town Live, Sam’s Town Casino Las Vegas, person we’re proud to be associated with.”Alan 1996 - Raw & Real NV; Summer Concert Series, Henderson, KY; Warner, EMI Music, LA 1995 - The Best from R. B. Stone 1983-1988 Venetian Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, NV; Ventura 1992 - R. B. Stone Contact County Fair, Ventura, CA; Western Days, Jackson 1991 - Honky Tonk Nights Hole, Wyoming and Winter Blues Fest, Cincinnati, For bookings, please contact Middle Mountain 1991 - The Drifters Wind OH. RB has also performed at US military bases in Music by calling 702-810-0162 or by sending an 1989 - R. B. Stone & Highway Robbery - Further Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Greenland, Central email to [email protected]. Down the Line America and around the United States. RB has also 1987 - R. B. Stone & Highway Robbery performed at countless Harley-Davidson dealership 1986 - Highway Robbery - Keep On Ridin’ events and motorcycle expos across America. Middle Mountain Music 702.810.0162 www.RBStone.com.