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DJ Stone grew up in Warwick, RI.  After stints in California & Florida playing guitar in various bands, he became a producer working with producer Adrian Barber (Rascals, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith).  He moved to Austin, TX where he produced the Cobras (Stevie Ray Vaughn's first band).  He met and became close friends with Johnny Clyde Copeland later introducing him to Vaughn.  Copeland's song "Let me Cry" is the only tune not written by DJ covered on the album.  After working as a manager, talent buyer and promoter he quit the music business to raise his children and return to his first loves songwriting and coaching kids basketball.

In the early nineties he returned to performing as a solo singer songwriter, becoming a regular at Chicago House in Austin and working with great songwriters. Betty Elders especially mentored him and with her encouragement he went to Nashville.  He loved the respect the town gave songwriters but found he did not fit the mold of "country" songwriter with its emphasis on co-writing and formula type formats.  He was discouraged and about to leave Nashville when a friend arranged for him to meet legendary producer Bob Johnston (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Simon & Garfunckle).  Johnston recognized DJ's talent and they went to San Francisco to record.  Seven songs were recorded in San Francisco with musicians Vernon Black, Roland Salley & Troy Luccketta, 4 of which are on this CD (Payday, Yolanda, After the fire Burns, Let Me Cry).  DJ said, "I realized that I had half of two albums, 1 acoustic and 1 electric, and I was determined to write more songs and do the electric album I always wanted to do.

DJ continued to write songs, raise kids and coach basketball.  He would travel to Nashville frequently playing the Bluebird Café and other songwriter's venues, visiting with Bob Johnston and his close friends in the area and making demos of his country type songs.  It was there he met up with Charlie Chadwick, master of the upright bass and now branching out into studio operation.   The repertoire they quickly established made DJ sure this is where he would finish his album.  With the best Nashville has to offer - John Jorgenson, Van Manakas, Charlie Chadwick, Billy Block & Kathryn Styron -  the album was completed before DJ's sudden death in April of 2004.