Gordon Stone Band
Gordon Stone: composer, banjo, pedal steel guitar Jon McCartan: bass
Booking: jennifer@gordonstone.com 802-578-0934
www.gordonstone.com
The Gordon Stone Band plays original music focusing on composition, interaction and
improvisation. They combine bluegrass and jazz, blended with Latin, world beat and funk in
tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions. As journalist Tim
Lynch puts it, "This is music with enough energy to appeal to rock and jam-bands fans, as well
as acoustic music lovers, newgrass fans and jazz lovers, all with enough danceable energy to
move entire festival sites into dancing frenzies. "
The music will lift you up.
1992, '93 Gordon records on Phish releases, "Picture of Nectar" and "Rift" and plays
live shows with them.
1994 The Gordon Stone Trio is formed with Jazz Mandolin Project's Jamie Masefield
and Stacy Starkweather.
1995-'97 CDs "Scratchin the Surface" and "Touch and Go" are released featuring Gordon's
compositions and many of Vermont's finest musicians. Gordon Stone Band plays at Phish's
, "Clifford Ball", "Great Went" and "Lemonwheel" festivals. They also share bills with
"Strangefolk", "Tony Trischka" and Grammy winner "Alisson Krauss".
1998 release of "Even with the Odds" is acclaimed by the Gannett Press as "instrumental
album of the year." Gordon Stone Band receives "Best Bluegrass Performer/Artist Award" from
Good Citizen's Vermont Music Poll. Gordon records on Strangefolk release "Weightless in Water".
1999 The Gordon Stone Band records Gordon's original film score for the movie "Mud
Season". The film is an official entry at "Slamdance" and wins best picture at both the
Pasadena and Silver Strand film festivals.
2000 -'01 GSB's recording of "Runaway Jim" is included on the Mockingbird Foundation
benifit compilation CD "Sharin' in the Groove", celebrating the music of Phish.
Other artists
on the disc include Dave Mathews, Arlo Guthrie, Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat and more.
Russ tours w/Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, on his acoustic/electric tours. GSB releases
their new CD "Red Room". "Seven Days" said "Red Room proves once again that Gordon Stone
is one of the most impressive musicians to ever come out of northern Vermont". Gordon
records on The Nields "Love and China" 2002 GSB releases 3 Live discs with rockslide.com.
Gordon joins side project's "Al and the Transamericans", who are: Al and Vinny from moe.,
Erik Glockler from Strangefolk, and Kirk Juhas. They record an album in Richmond VA at
David Lowry's studio. While there, David has Gordon records some banjo and pedal steel on
the new Cracker release.
2003 Phish bassist Mike Gordon's album "Inside In" is released on Atlantic Records
Rope a Dope label and Gordon tours nationally with Mike and an 8 piece band in October
2003. Al and the Transamericans release "Analog" and continue to tour.
2004 Gordon joins Sam Bush, Peter Rowan and Vassar Clements on stage at The
Gathering of the Vibes - World's True Masters of Bluegrass.
2005 "Rhymes With Orange" is released - the fourth studio album - never before
recorded original music. Gordon receives Boston Emmy nomination for the soundtrack to
Jay Craven's 7 episdoe public television series, "Windy Acres".
"Rhymes With Orange" recieves the Best Instrumetal Album of the Year in Vermont 2005 from the Times Argus/Rutland Herald and makes the Top nine Albums for the Year 2005 from the Vermont Guardian.
"...It's no wonder that "Fast Enough for You," a languid rumination deftly colored with guest
Gordon Stone's pedal steel, was picked for release as a (Phish) single in 1993."
- Relix Magazine November 2004
"The music lifted me up and carried me away. I became so absorbed I forgot to swallow."
-Phish Bassist, Mike Gordon
"A standout during Phish bassist Mike Gordon's recent solo tour, Stone is a terrific banjo picker
and pedal steel guitarist with not an ounce of wank"
-Richard Gehr, The Village Voice
"Burlington banjo and pedal steel player Gordon Stone has contributed his genius to genres from
hillbilly to punk and back again. ...A hybrid sound next to which the term 'jazzgrass' wilts."
- Pamela Polston, Seven Days
"Gordon Stone is somewhat of an enigma, a musician that refuses to be categorized or limited
by established musical boundaries. His eclecticism can be mind-boggling."
-Joe Ross, Acoustic Musician
"Whether it be the traditional bluegrass style, a classical motif, a bebop number or one of his
own striking original compositions, Gordon arranges his music with impeccable taste and plays
with an infectious verve and vivacity."
-Bill Keith
'this record stands up next to everything from Fleck to Grisman to Grapelli to Strength in
Numbers..."
-Tim Lynch on "Even with the Odds"
PARTIAL LIST OF FESTIVALS COLLEGES
Phish's Lemonwheel, The Great Went, The Clifford Ball UMASS Colby
Strangefolk's Garden of Eden Penn State Johnson State
Ben & Jerry's One World One Heart St. Lawrence Connecticut
The gathering of the Vibes Wesleyan Paul Smith
The Berkshire Mountain Festival UVM Godard
Vermont Family Bluegrass Festival Middlebury Univ. Wisconsin
Summer Sun Music Festival Bates St. Michael's
Mother Earth Music Festival Bowdoin
Solarfest Clarkson
Beatjam Florida State
PARTIAL LIST OF CLUBS
Knitting Factory NY,NY Parting Glass Saratoga, NY
Wetlands Preserve NY,NY Peasents Greeneville, NC
Lion's Den NY,NY Bessies Wilmington, NC
Paradise Theater Boston, MA Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
Middle East Cafe Cambridge, MA Skippers Smokehouse Tampa, FL
Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA The Grog Shop Cleveland, OH
The Flynn Theater Burlington, VT Nectar's Burlington, VT
Higher Ground Winooski, VT The Ark Ann Arbor, MI
Rick's Cafe Ann Arbor, MI Martyr's Chicago, IL
Cicero's St. Louis, MO Barrymore Theater Madison, WI
Roxy's BBQ Tahlequah, OK
Club Metronome Burlington, VT
The Aggie Theater Fort Collins, CO
Wolf Tongue Nederland, CO
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