A1Blues.Com » 100 – Stoney Curtis Band

This week you will get to listen to Stoney Curtis of The Stoney Curtis Band tell about his Blues-Rock CD Raw and Real. A powerful band, giving their audience all they’ve got.
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Stoney Curtis is the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band. Charlie Glover is the powerhouse drummer and Colby Smith is on bass guitar. There are a few guests on the record with the most notable being Art Groom who does a nice job on the Hammond B-3. Mike Varney who produced their last highly acclaimed record, Acid Blues Experience, is back again on Raw and Real.

The record is hard hitting raw blues-rock with influences by Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and George Thorogood to name a few of the obvious ones. The record kicks off with a blues-rocker called “That’s Right”. Stoney described this as a song about spending too much time in Las Vegas. It’s definitely a song that will get you tapping your foot, as will the next song “Sometimes She Likes Me”. “Behind The Sun” is eight minutes long and has that beautiful dreamy Robin Trower style. You will swear this is Robin Trower from his record Bridge of Sighs or Twice Removed from Yesterday. Stoney said he loves music with emotion, and when he writes a song or performs a song live it’s important for him to believe in the song and convey that feeling or emotion to the audience. “Rain Over Me” is a good example of that. It’s a ballad that The Stoney Curtis Band play every night even though it’s not a blues song. The emotional honesty of “Rain Over Me” is apparent. For some of you who grew up with rock music it’s like when you first heard Bon Jovi play “You Give Love A Bad Name,” then turn around and do the ballad “Wanted Dead or Alive”. You’re just wowed that the Stoney Curtis Band is doing all these good blues-rockers can turn around and write a ballad that’s a real gem. Stoney describes the next song “Love & Money” as being like something blues-rocker Pat Travers would do. Besides being musically good it has clever lyricist about someone we’ve all met before. “Black Rose” is an upbeat blues-rocker with a lot of good guitar going on. As you will hear in the show the real masterpiece is “Blues Without You”. It’s a nine-minute slow burning blues track that everyone who hears it should call his or her radio station to request. This is a must have song on Stoney Curtis Band’s record Raw and Real.
One other thing you need to know is the Stoney Curtis Band is going to be doing a lot of shows in the mid-west of the United States in the next month or so (2009). If you live around Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, even Texas, and of course Nevada and California. Be sure to go to their concert. They give it all they’ve got. I know, I saw them raw real and live. Check their MySpace for more information.