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RB STONE: STILL DRIVING AND STILL DRIVEN
By Lawrence Lebo

Songwriter and Americana artist RB Stone has been at his game for
some time. As an independent musician, he has 18 albums under his
belt, has toured 32 countries and five continents, and sold over
40,000 albums at his shows and festivals across the world. He’s
had a song catalog with Gwen Gordy (of the Barry Gordy Motown
Dynasty at EMI) until unfortunately Gwen suffered a stroke. Still,

the EMI connection led to other
successes such as principal roles
in national commercials, and
appearances in national music
videos.

RB’s songs have been recorded
by artists such as The Marshall
Tucker Band, Gary D. Nunn and
Annika Chambers. RB has
worked with acts such as
Hiroshima, The Charlie Daniels

Band and Billboard
Magazine has honoured RB with
a songwriting award. If RB has
his way there’ll be more to
come. He’s the first to admit he’s

had good luck and not so good
luck, but RB takes it all in his
stride and keeps moving on
down the road. When the
pandemic stalled his musical
income he literally got behind

the wheel and did just fine!

In 2020 RB partnered with guitarist Ben Rice on “Out Of The Box”, an album featuring a mix of cigar
box guitars played by Rice and Stone (RB also contributes some harp to the work). The well received
album features eleven original cuts written by Rice and/or Stone, using various guitars with 3, 4 and
6 strings. Joining Stone and Rice are Dave Melyan on drums, Joseph Barton on bass and Jimi Bott on

tambourine (he also recorded and mixed the CD). It’s simple, yet not-so-simple slide-based blues
performed by talented musicians, executed at the highest level. I highly recommend.

I asked RB Stone to tell about his life and career. This is what he told me ........

LL: So, let’s start at the beginning! Where did you grow up and what was the family you grew up

in like?