Dreams Die Hard - New CD by Larry Stone
A new CD Dreams Die Hard on Cool Groove records marks a return to recording after a 20 year layoff for Wilmington, New York based singer songwriter, Larry Stone. It also marks a reunion with Fort Worth based band leader, producer, guitarist Jim Colegrove who produced Stone’s earlier collection, Rockin’ Bones, recorded in Dallas in the ’80s. The new album contains all original material written by Stone except for one tune by Joe Hutchinson, a musician who wrote and played with Jim Colegrove in the Woodstock, NewYork band Jook, and one tune that Hutchinson collaborated with Stone on, Down on the Borderline, the title track of Colegrove’s Fort Worth band, Lost Country, several years ago.
After over twenty years as a ski jumping coach, Stone has retired from that world and returned to music with new enthusiasm. This album was started during the winter of 2008 with a number of cuts using his band the Stoneman Blues Band, and finished in August 2008 in Fort Worth with Jim and Lost Country. Many of the songs were inspired by life on the farm that Larry and his wife, Meg, run in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. The rolling Padjolie Blues, as well as the rollicking Ballad of Shorty, a bull who escaped into the nearby woods for a four day vacation, give an insight into life on the Little Black Brook farm which is further embellished by the haunting Here Today, Gone Tomorrow which combines the facts of life on the farm with the loss of a close friend over the past summer.
Special mention to the musicianship includes the great steel playing of Fort Worth’s David McMillan, the sweet harmony singing of Susan Colegrove, and the great touch of producer Jim Colegrove.
Stone says he wanted to make a CD of material that he would like to listen to himself instead of trying to hit any particular market niche."It’s been a long time coming but making this album was enormously satisfying, especially interacting with these talented musicians to flesh out my songs."
Larry Stone - Dreams Die Hard - Cool Groove CD 109 - Now Available.
For more information on Larry visit LittleBlackBrook.com or contact Larry at LHStone@juno.com.
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