StoneRider arrives with whip-ass grooves and balls-out-rock-n'-roll for anyone who has ever thrown back a brew to Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix or AC/DC or lit a spliff chilling out to Lynyrd Skynyrd or even Pink Floyd.
"Everything has changed for us since writing our first album as kids and getting a record deal, but at the same time, things haven't changed," explains vocalist and guitarist Matt Tanner of the Atlanta-bred outfit. "We're just as hungry as we've always been. We have a better focus on where we're going. We've learned a lot."
And the band's fierce but grooving debut album is the evidence of that learning experience, putting everything they have grown up living, breathing, and believing about rock music into the proverbial pot.
The album was written collaboratively, with the four former members of Southern rock band "Fight Paris" -- Tanner, Warren, drummer Jason Krutzky and bass player Champ Champagne - sitting in a room together jamming and working off of each other. Whereas Fight Paris was fast and thrashy, StoneRider slows things down a bit and lets the songs groove, even dabbling with mid-tempo ballads. "This record is heavy in an entirely new kind of way," says Champ. "You feel the heavy as opposed to hearing the heavy."
StoneRider works hard, while playing loose and powerfully, to chase after that goal on tracks like "Back from the Dead" (which to the band is a voice for rock n' roll), the driving and Hendrix-esque "Uncanny(breakout)," the band life documentation of "Juice Man," the fast and upbeat "Rush Hour," and the Southern Rock leaning "Bad Lovin'(Never Felt so Good)."
And now, after their long journey, the four Atlantans are hungry to get back on the road and show their new face to the world, teaching the lessons of Page/Plant and Scott/Young everywhere they go, partying, having a good time, and showing the world their Southern hospitality.
World: Get ready for StoneRider to run up your tab.
I enjoyed you guys in lil 5 a couple months ago. I'm pretty sure that I can make it to the show in the COV. Considering it's right down the street. And it's the day after my birthday.... sweet. Can't wait to see you guys!
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I dont know if yall remember me, but i think yalls drummer drew a weed symbol on my CD. He also gave the singer a mustache...I forget the the place yall played at, it was in houston, texas though. am i talking to the real band or someone who was hired to update the myspace???
Hi guys and thanks for being friends. Great sound and powerful songs : you rock ! I just bought your album "Three legs of Trouble", and it's really a good, good one !!! Hope to see you playing live soon !!! Keep on rockin' and play it LOUD !!! Cheers from France. Fanch
one word: SMOKING! yall got it going on!!!! Thanks for the add... come get a taste of southern culture's raunchier side... check out the loud, raw, deep fried noise we make, guaranteed to make a fat baby poot… so if we don’t total disgust your sense of ‘good taste’ maybe you’ll leave us a comment or two… marv
We got plenty more coming soon...As soon as we get this bass player situation figured out we'll be ready to rock out with you guys. If you know of anyone send em our way
