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- Artist: Stoney LaRue
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- Release Date: August 23, 2005
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Country
Review
Stoney LaRue is a singer/songwriter based in Stillwater, OK, one of the leaders of a local outlaw country scene collectively dubbed Red Dirt, after the dominant topographical feature of central Oklahoma. LaRue's debut, The Red Dirt Album, is both a personal coming-out of a fairly gifted singer/songwriter and the mission statement of an entire collective of bands, including Cross Canadian Ragweed (led by singer/songwriter Cody Canada) and Jason Boland & the Stragglers, key figures from which appear here in vocal, instrumental, and songwriting roles. It's as if the Elephant 6 bands had been heavily influenced by Jerry Jeff Walker's Viva Terlingua and the rest of the Luckenbach, TX, scene of the '70s. However, LaRue's whiskey-smooth growl of a voice and his smart, traditionalist songwriting are the focal points throughout The Red Dirt Album, a twangy, rock-influenced collection of solid two-steps, ballads, and rockers. LaRue wrote or co-wrote all but two of the songs, the ringers being a sensitive reading of "Bluebird Wine," a Rodney Crowell tune popularized by Emmylou Harris, and a triumphant, sweet version of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" that closes the album. Both sound like they could be originals, testament both to LaRue's vocal skills and strength as a songwriter. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Down in Flames | Stoney LaRue | (3:52) | |
| Closer to You | Stoney LaRue | (3:09) | |
| Idabel Blues | Stoney LaRue | (4:25) | |
| Downtown | Stoney LaRue | (3:54) | |
| Solid Gone (Lyrics) | Stoney LaRue | (3:02) | |
| Walk Away | Stoney LaRue | (3:36) | |
| Texas Moon | Stoney LaRue | (4:10) | |
| One Chord Song | Stoney LaRue | (3:06) | |
| Bluebird Wine | Stoney LaRue | (3:58) | |
| Let Me Hold You | Stoney LaRue | (3:39) | |
| Forever Young | Bob Dylan | Stoney LaRue | (4:32) |
