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Stoney LaRue (born Stoney Larue Phillips in 1977) is an American Texas Country/Red Dirt artist.

Stoney LaRue
Background information
Origin	Taft, Texas, United States
Genres	Red Dirt, Texas Country
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Smith Music Group
Website	www.stoneylarue.com

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]

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country [4]	US [5]	US Indie [6]
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[7]	—	—
Velvet	Release date: August 30, 2011 Label: B Side Music Group	15	53	5
Aviator[8]	Release date: October 28, 2014 Label: eOne Music	17	72	15
Us Time[9]	Release date: October 16, 2015 Label: eOne Music	22	—	40
Onward[10]	Release date: November 1, 2019 Label: One Chord Song	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Title	Director
2011	"Travelin' Kind"[11]
2014	"First One to Know"[12]	Coleman Saunders
	"Aviator"[13]
2017	"Blending Colors"

References

External links

• Larue's biography at CMT
• Larue's biography at Lonestar Music

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