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We tried calling our music "timeless mountain pop" for awhile. Phil says it's "music for lovers." It's all about the words and the melodies and the harmonies, and the guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, drums and occasional mallet instrument. We've been a band since 2003/04 depending on how you count it. But it all started when Steph and Sean started hangin' out a couple of years earlier.
Our latest album, Nature Hatin' Blues is dedicated to hometowns and misfits everywhere, mountains and people who fight to save them, the soil we grew up in…. To a certain degree, the dedication sums up both the album and the band. The music is deeply rooted in the mountains of Appalachia, but is also subject to the ruminations of those who try to escape their steep mountain walls.
Read a review of the cd at knoxville520.com .
It's featured on NPR's website .
Many thanks to Wendy Detrick Worsham for doing the artwork.

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Member Since: 11/4/2006
Band Website: thelonetones.com
Band Members: Steph Gunnoe (guitar, vocals), Sean McCollough (guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocals), Maria Williams (bass, vocals), Steve Corrigan (drums, glockenspiel), Phil Pollard (drummer emeritus)
Influences: The Beatles, The Kinks, Hazel & Alice, John Prine, the VU, Grease, ONJ, Dale and Sarita, David Bromberg, Norman Blake, Barbara Gunnoe Young, Eric Gunnoe, Little Sue, Alice Munro, Doug Derryberry, Lucinda, Iris, amazing rhythm aces, JD salinger, stones, carol king, the who, dinosaur jr, belle and sebastian, wilco, jayhawks, lee smith, denise giardina, mia zapata, carol elizabeth jones, paul simon, neil young, kurt vonnegutt, lynn conover, jim boyer, michael friedman, thich nat hahn, forest, julia, willa, allison, meg, bob dylan, the Lim brothers, grace paley, doris betts, eLo, barry manilow, bruce springsteen, michigan, wv, or, tn, mountains!
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Sing Out Magazine CD Review

What a charming little album! The LoneTones' Nature Hatin' Blues sounds modest. But despite the album's title, most of the songs, 8 written by Steph Gunnoe and 5 by Sean McCollough, comment on the imp...
Posted by The LoneTones on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:23:00 PST

LoneTones Included on Knoxville Compilation CD

K-town bursting with talent (and we've got the free CD to prove it)Musical muscleBy WAYNE BLEDSOE, [email protected] April 27, 2007People can get a little sick of hearing me talk about how great the m...
Posted by The LoneTones on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:54:00 PST

NPR Open Mic Feature, December 29, 2006

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Posted by The LoneTones on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:58:00 PST