LoneTones Useful CD

Thanks for visiting our CD baby page. We're a band from Knoxville, TN. Please take a listen to our songs and come visit our regular website and myspace site by clicking on the links below the songs. Steph Gunnoe: guitar, vocalsSean McCollough: guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocalsMaria Williams: bass, vocalsPhil Pollard: drums, xylophone**End Of The Year Accolades for Useful: Wayne Bledsoe, Entertainment Editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel played "Little Thing" and "Ugly Down Inside" as part of his "Favorites of the Year" on his radio show (All Over The Road). He also included the album and song 'Little Thing" on his ballot of the Nashville Scene's top ten albums/singles of the year and his singles/radio cut list for the Village Voice. ** With the release of Useful, the LoneTones have garnered attention for their literate songwriting and modern mountain sound. Some highlights following the release of Useful: • "Useful" was chosen as a DYI top 12 pick by Performing Songwriter Magazine. • The song "Glad I Stayed" appeared on Shut Eye Records' Americana Sampler The United State of Americana, Vol 2. • "Useful" was featured on NPR's website All Songs Considered. • Tracks from "Useful" have recieved radio play across the country and internationally. The seeds for the band were planted back to 2001 when West Virginian Steph Gunnoe began performing informally with Knoxville singer-songwriter Sean McCollough. The duo’s sound fused Gunnoe’s mountain singing style and literate song-writing with McCollough’s rich vocal accompaniment and multi-instrumental arrangements. They began to perform publicly over the next couple of years. In 2003 they added Maria Williams on upright bass and vocals and started calling themselves The LoneTones. In 2004, Phil Pollard joined them on drums. The band performs most often as a four piece, but sometimes appears as a duo or trio. Their repertoire still revolves around the inventive lyrical songwriting and singing of Steph Gunnoe. They round out their shows with some originals by Sean McCollough, a few traditional tunes and covers ranging from the Carter Family to Steve Earle to Blondie to Magnetic Fields to a Peruvian waltz.  *****************Steph Gunnoe and Sean McCollough produce bittersweet harmonies as plaintively haunting and beautiful as the landscape of their Appalachian home. Gunnoe's voice yields a tender-ripe yearning tempered by McCollough's rich accompaniment. The duo's songs and lyrics have a timeless quality reminiscent of masters such as the Carter family or acclaimed moderns such as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Iris DeMent or Victoria Williams and Marc Olson. Gunnoe and McCollough create imaginative melodies of nostalgia and longing, that sing of dusky mountain twilights and introspection. -Gretchen Geisingser, Concert Manager Laurel Theatre, Knoxville, TN******************FROM SEATTLE TO DOWN SOUTH, GUNNOE'S LONETONE JOURNEY A HAPPY ONE2004-10-01By Steve Wildsmithof The Daily Times StaffBut for a few fateful turn of events, Stephanie Gunnoe might be playing electric guitar and screaming into a microphone as part of a riot-grrl group out of the Northwest.Instead, Gunnoe picks sweet acoustic guitar and sings gently as part of The LoneTones, the band she fronts with her husband, singer-songwriter Sean McCollough (who also fronts the local band Evergreen Street). The band plays gentle acoustic music rooted in Gunnoe's Appalachian heritage ... but hearing her story, it's not a stretch to see how she might have ended up signed to Kill Rock Stars along with the label's star band, Sleater-Kinney.``I was so happy to discover the riot-grrl scene, and it really, really inspired me,'' Gunnoe said recently of the time she spent in Portland, Ore., Sleater-Kinney's hometown. ``I might very well have ended up in one of those types of bands, but I didn't have the riot-grrl kind of voice and the aggression. I just don't have it, but the whole do-it-yourself attitude ins