Seven Days’ “Best Instrumentalist 2009” and Emmy Award winner  Gordon Stone.
 
The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting.
He and his Vermont-based, world-traveling band, combine bluegrass and jazz with African, world beat, and funk… in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions.   With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece sweeter than the last.
 
Gordon Stone’s latest disc, “Night Shade” was called “excellent… profoundly so” by Seven Day’s.   Recorded in longtime friends, Phish’s barn here in Vermont,  Taking a break from the Phish’s summer touring schedule, Page McConnell lends his B3 sounds to the title track and Mike Gordon says of Gordon Stone: “Clearly, he’s an inspiration.”
 
“Stone has always pushed the limits of his main musical weapons, taking the pedal steel and banjo to places no mere humans normally tread. On Night Shade, however, he pushes things further than ever, lashing world rhythms and out-of-this-world melodic ideas together." - Jambands.com
 
Gordon has been awarded a Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council which will go to support the rehearsal, performance and promotion of a collection of new songs by Gordon Stone that reflect Vermont’s ethnic diversity.  
 
Awards
Best Instrumentalist 2005, 2006, 2009 - Seven Days Newspaper  
Emmy Award for Outstanding Composition 2005
“Rhymes With Orange” Best Instrumental Album 2005
“Even With the Odds” Best Instrumental Album 1998
Discography Highlights
Scratchin' The Surface - Gordon Stone 1995                Rift – Phish 1993
Touch and Go - Gordon Stone 1995          Fast Enough for You -Phish’s First Single 1993
Even With the Odds - Gordon Stone 1998                  Picture of Nectar – Phish 1992       
Red Room - Gordon Stone 2000                       A Great Long While -Strangefolk   1999
Rhymes With Orange - Gordon Stone 2005       Weightless in Water -Strangefolk 1997
Analog - Al & The Transamericans 2004           Inside In – Mike Gordon 2003
This Day & Age – Al & the Transamericans 2008...Night Shade Gordon Stone 2009
Films/Television
2004 Gordon co-composes the soundtrack to Jay Craven’s (Kingdom County Productions) 7-episode public television series, “Windy Acres” wins Emmy in 2005.
2000 - Gordon’s pedal steel guitar playing is featured in Phish bassist Mike Gordon’s movie “Outside Out” - Winner Audience Award at SXSW 2000. The soundtrack is later released on Rope a Dope Records as “Inside In” with Gordon’s pedal steel as the dominant voice.
1999 - Gordon Stone composes the original score for Hobnail Picture’s feature length film, “Mud Season”. The film is an official entry at Slamdance and wins Best Picture at the New Haven, Pasadena and Silver Strand Film Festivals.
Tours
Gordon Stone Band 2009-08 Working with Tony Trischka and the Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, Al & The Transamericans – 2nd CD and Tour, and Adrienne Young, Rev Tor’s new CD and Roots of Creation. His band opened for moe., during their five sold-out shows at the new highline Ballroom in New York City. Recent shows – The Tulip Festival in Albany, New York,  Snoe.down- moe.’s Winter Music Festival in Lake Placid, NY, The Everyone Orchestra w/Jon Fishman, Steve Kimock and others. The Gordon Stone Band performed at the Hat Yai World Music Festival in Thailand in 2006 and he joined  Mike Gordon and Scott Murawski and Ramble Dove on tour in 2006 including Bonnaroo,  The Evolve Festival in Nova Scotia, moe.down and others.
 
Prior to that Gordon toured with Al and the Transamericans Tour 2004 & 2008,  Al and Vinny from moe. and Erik Glockler from Strangefolk. Mike Gordon Band Tour 2003 w/Gordon Stone on pedal steel to promote Mike’s album “Inside In”.
 
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"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

Gordon Stone   Jeezum Crow Music, LLC 418 Blackberry Lane  Waterbury  VT 05676 802-578-2364 gordon@gordonstone.com 
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