Stoney Forde Bio
As an optimistic cynic, Stoney sees the glass as half full but that someone probably spit in it. His favorite color is spaghetti. His five-year plan is to come up with a three-year plan. His favorite beverage is beverage and English is his second language – he has no first. He has a driving record but it has never gone platinum. If he had one wish in this life he would put it in a drawer and forget where he left it.
When he is not being a surrealist stooge for an underground dadaesque support group out of 4-Corners, New Mexico, he spends small portions of his time being a creative hack in the pay of corporate mercenaries perpetuating the myth that marketing is the only real salvation that humans have to hide behind.
On government forms and loan applications he lists his occupation as, itinerant word herder.
Stoney has bounced around at various odds and ends, collecting a wide swath of observations and experiences regards the human condition as well as filling his passport with time-stamps from his comings and goings extra-dimensionally whilst posting dispatches along the way.
He did a stint as a rodeo clown in South Dekota, worked the long-liners out of Kodiak for a spell, drove big-rigs along the I-80 corridor and troubadoured honky-tonks around Indiana. There is also rumor that he did some time in Hollywood, but that can’t be varified.
Having been a multi-award-winning writer through other medium, Stoney decided to turn his talents toward music. Actually, he was becoming increasingly bored with longer format fiction and started delving into shorter flash fiction exercises.
Suddenly, an epiphany: Why not write songs! And a new quest was born, finding truth in 4/4. Don't all epiphanies happen suddenly?
Delving into a genre he calls “Raucous Yacht Rock,” which contains equal parts, or not, of “Enlightened Americana,” “British Blues Rock,” Brodacious Alt-Country,” along with a bit of “Funk” and a dash of some swell beats, plus an added dose of “Shamanistic Magical Realism” to create a mixologists handcrafted cocktail of unexpected characters, outlandish soundscapes, and whimsical situations. Stoney showcases a unique perspective and a distinctive voice with a willingness to implicate himself in his bad and/or good behavior and to describe its costs and rewards to those around him as he chronicles life on the path where destinations don’t matter while searching for a truth where nothing is said.
Stoney is currently working on a collection of songs for an album entitled “It’s Not About the Art, It’s About the Frame.”
