 Artist: Stoney Larue: mp3 download Genre(s): Country Discography:  Downtown Year: 2002 Tracks: 12 Stoney LaRue plays medicine that combines the rootsy, emotionally honest sound of rural area with the beer-drinking cock of heartland rock and a dash of the helen Wills undercurrents of the vapors. LaRue was innate in Taft, TX, to a musical folk -- his padre played bass in a number of local bands -- and he grew up listening to the area and Southern tilt that would inform his later work. When he was a teen, LaRue's family pulled up bet for Oklahoma, and with time LaRue would turn share of the Stillwater, OK, "Red River Dirt" musical community, along with likeminded acts of the Apostles such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, Jason Boland, and Mike McClure. Forming a road band called the Organic Boogie Band, LaRue began storming honkie tonks and dancehalls in Oklahoma and Texas, winning a truehearted following for his passionate live shows, and in 2002 he released his first base album, Downtown, recorded during a concert for a especially invited audience at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, OK. The album was a solid career plug-in for LaRue and his chemical group, and they began expenditure most of the twelvemonth on the route, playing up to 300 dates a year, only in 2005 LaRue stayed in one place prospicient enough to book his first base studio disk, befittingly titled The Red Dirt Album, which earned enthusiastic reviews and throw off a stronger focus on LaRue's skills as a ballad maker. In the spring of 2007, LaRue released his third album, which was too his sec live plant -- Unrecorded at Billy Bob's Texas, recorded during a 2006 gig at the notable Fort Worth venue. |
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