Tedo Stone was born to play rock and roll. Growing up in a family with a musical father and where brothers handed down bass guitars to younger siblings like old sweatshirts, Stone was fronting a band and playing in motorcycle bars around his hometown of Covington, Georgia, when he was 12 years old.
A lifetime of listening to classic country and soul artists like Patsy Cline and Otis Redding imbued the young songwriter with a retro pop and strong vocal appreciation from a young age, though finding his own voice has been an ongoing process. His 2013 debut album, Good Go Bad, saw Tedo delving into glam jams and alt country rock, though Stone admits he wasn’t fully assured of his sound yet. While hanging out in Athens, Georgia and playing with the endless array of talented young musicians there, Stone realized his songs were sounding different live, evolving into a mixture of Dinosaur Jr’s wailing guitars and Neil Young’s raw emotion; and he liked it. Taking that new energy into the studio, he churned out 2015’s Marshes and 2018’s Summer Sun to glowing reviews.
2020 will find Tedo Stone releasing his 4th full-length album, again made in Athens, GA. While the album’s title and release date are still to be determined, Stone has a teaser in the form of his new single “Same Old Kid,” and today we are excited to premiere it right here on Glide. With its driving piano hook leading the charge, the song is a meditation on memories of those who have passed on. Stone revels in a kind of 70s pop and piano rock, which bolsters the sense of nostalgia lingering throughout the tune. Coming in at two minutes, “Same Old Kid” is short and sweet, building just the right amount of excitement for what we can expect from the rest of the album.
Tedo Stone describes the inspiration behind the song:
“I wrote ‘Same Old Kid’ on a piano that belonged to my aunt Karen who passed away a little over two years ago. I think the ‘meaning’ behind the song started with me catching myself always retelling stories to my wife about my childhood after we moved back to the town I grew up in. After finishing the song I felt like it was also a song to my aunt and hopes of reuniting in the afterlife. I think most of my songs are pretty open to interpretation of the listener, and in this case even to myself. That’s my take on it.”
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Photo by Tedo Stone & Alec Stanley
