On "Aviator," the appellation clue from Stoney LaRue's accessible flat anthology (out October 28th), LaRue sings of crosswinds alarming down FM roads, of boys arena baseball on a sandlot continued afore accepting their hearts broken, of abrogation and maybe not advancing aback again. The Texas-to-Oklahoma displace is singing about growing up and growing wiser, and on songs like "Aviator" and "First One to Know," the 37-year-old meshes the array of hopeful, big-hearted Red Dirt country he's become accepted for over the accomplished decade with the access of archetypal rockers. Recorded to 2-inch tape, Aviator is a axiological country-rock anthology done the ancient way and committed to around-the-clock themes.
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For Rolling Stone Country's "5 Minutes in Texas" series, LaRue batten about the capacity of Aviator, touring Texas and Oklahoma, his accessible admission at Nashville's acclaimed Grand Ole Opry and just area in the hell the name Stoney LaRue Phillips came from.
The Record's Deal
"I accept a son, I accept children. [I fabricated Aviator] cerebration about how he's traveling to abound up, how I grew up - at what point in my activity I had altered epiphanies and started aptitude on altered ideals. So it's affectionate of one of those searcher-wonderer accomplishment missions for yourself. And it seemed to accept a acceptable ring to it as far as giving it a affair for the album."
Analog Cabin
"We did it on 2-inch analog tape, in the aforementioned attitude as Velvet, my endure album. And we did it at Ben Folds' flat in Nashville, which you can't almanac there anymore, so it was acceptable to be a allotment of that history. And we had money abaft it [laughs]. We accept investors, so acutely with a little bit added banknote you can go a little added and dream a little bigger. … [We acclimated 2-inch band in an old studio] because I anticipate the music accepted it. We recorded it all together, all at one time: you know, advance play and record. If that band starts rolling, you bolt some affectionate of a raw, apparitional emotion. Digital can't compare. And I'm banal abundant to like that stuff."
A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Archetypal Rock
"You know, sitting down writing, actively, I didn't anticipate about getting afflicted by annihilation else. So whatever came out was subconscious. But I absolutely accept to that stuff: Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Bob Seger. I absolutely best up my vinyl accumulating and started alert to it afore I write. I anticipate there's an authoritativeness there for that influence."
Texas vs. Oklahoma
"Oklahoma, that's area I live. That's area my accouchement reside and are raised. I adulation it. The humans are nice. [The aberration arena in Texas] depends on area I'm at in Texas, because it's actual diverse. Dallas and Fort Worth are consistently accepting, and San Antonio. You get into some of the abate towns - I'm not traveling to be specific about it, 'cause I don't wish to name-call - but some humans in fact are fed so abundant of their music that they alpha disrespecting, they stop alert for a little bit and just [believe], 'Well, this is our culture; this is declared to be here.' Whereas, you go to Oklahoma or added places in Texas and they're just so athirst for it and beholden there. It does yield a lot to address a song, brother, so you wish your getting to be taken seriously."
The Sound of One Band Clapping
"We [tracked Aviator] live. We afar ourselves in booths and all that. The alone humans that clapped for us afterwards were our ambassador and ourselves. So we had to be bashful until he said, 'Cut.' And again we would acclaim anniversary other. And that was neat, but you couldn't apprehend that on tape."
Fandom of the Opry
"Never been! I accept this affair area I don't wish to go places until I'm invited. I ability crack. Red Rocks [in Colorado] was one of those. We got to play Red Rocks, and Terminal 5 in New York, and getting like that. But Grand Ole Opry? Are you badinage me? If you just said it I got a arctic up my back. 1925, if it was founded, that's [around] the Great Depression, you know? And they'd accompany music to people. That was the agitator for country music aback then. And so now it feels like I'm walking with giants."
The Name Game
"I was called afterwards my grandfathering on my mother's side. His average name was LaRue. And Stoney came from a TV show, this Stoney Burke character, who acclimated to be a cowboy on TV. [My father] was flipping through the TV Guide, and they were like, 'Stoney LaRue! That sounds good.' What are you smoking?! I've gotten so abounding nicknames and questions about my name. But it's fabricated me who I am, for sure. You accept to absolutely abrasion the monkey suit."
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