Stoney LaRue

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Stoney LaRue
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LaRue in 2014
Born
Stoney Larue Phillips

OccupationMusician
Years active2002–present
Musical career
Genres
LabelsSmith Music Group
Formerly ofStoney LaRue and the Organic Boogie Band
Website www.stoneylarue.com

Stoney LaRue (born Stoney Larue Phillips; 1977) is an American Texas country/Red dirt artist.

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Life and career

Born in Taft, Texas, LaRue was raised in Yanush/Buffalo Valley, Oklahoma, where he still visits regularly and began playing country music at a young age.

LaRue moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma, and began to play in the various bars around the college town, as well as his brother, Bo Phillips. He befriended Jason Boland and Cody Canada and the three moved into the infamous "Yellow House" where they would have late night jam sessions and entertain other various musicians around the town, like Mike McClure and Brandon Jenkins. [1] LaRue was heavily influenced by Woody Guthrie, Bob Childers, Mike Hosty and the "Red Dirt" music scene. [2]

In 2002, LaRue led The Organic Boogie Band and released Downtown, recorded in private sessions at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa. LaRue's 2005 follow-up, The Red Dirt Album, reached the Billboard sales charts in its debut week. The next year, Stoney released his first live record Live at Billy Bob's Texas.

LaRue sang backing vocals on Miranda Lambert's 2013 single "All Kinds of Kinds." [3]

On the morning of July 20, 2015, LaRue was arrested and charged with domestic abuse after an altercation involving his then girlfriend Amanda Winsworth. Winsworth claimed in court documents that she was getting ready for work when LaRue began physically assaulting her and ultimately pushed her down a flight of stairs in their home. LaRue was released from jail on $4,000 bond (equivalent to $5,100in 2023 [4] ) later that day. The next morning, Winsworth rescinded part of her account of the assault on Twitter stating that the incident had been blown out of proportion by the media. [5] [6]

Discography

Albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US
Country

[7]
US
[8]
US
Indie

[9]
Downtown(Stoney LaRue
and the Organic Boogie Band)
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: released by Stoney LaRue.
The Red Dirt Album
  • Release date: August 23, 2005
  • Label: Smith Music Group
70
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • Release date: April 10, 2007
  • Label: Smith Music Group
65
Live Acoustic (EP)
  • Release date: December 29, 2009
  • Label: Smith Music Group
66 [10]
Velvet
  • Release date: August 30, 2011
  • Label: B Side Music Group
15535
Aviator [11] 177215
Us Time [12]
  • Release date: October 16, 2015
  • Label: eOne Music
2240
Onward [13]
  • Release date: November 1, 2019
  • Label: One Chord Song
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

YearTitleDirector
2011"Travelin' Kind" [14]
2014"First One to Know" [15] Coleman Saunders
"Aviator" [16]
2017"Blending Colors"

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