{"id":1421,"date":"2011-02-09T07:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:44:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T03:44:26","slug":"ty-stone-on-tour-with-kid-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Ty Stone on Tour with Kid Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ty Stone epitomizes the Cindarella story within the music business. An opportunist of fate, Ty Stone is embarking on stardom under the tutelage of mentor Kid Rock and behind his upcoming debut single American Style<\/em>. His smooth rock-country style vocals have been wowing audiences for the last couple years touring with national acts like Uncle Kracker, Jamey Johnson and Rehab.<\/p>\n

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Amy caught up with him to promote his stop on Kid Rock\u2019s Born Free<\/em> tour this Friday night at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville. They discussed his unique story plus some interesting stories along the way.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I appreciate you calling me today. I just wanted to talk to you about the show next week and try to do a little promotion, not that you guys need it, for the Louisville show.<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh, I always need it. Thank you so much. I\u2019m definitely trying as hard as I can to let people know I\u2019m out there so I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You\u2019re a fairly new artist. I\u2019ve seen you several times in the last year but you\u2019re playing in front of 40-, 50-, 60,000 people every night. Do you get nervous or how do you prepare for that? People usually work up to that a little bit.<\/p>\n

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Ty: It\u2019s funny, I did the Live Trucker Tour<\/em> with Kid Rock. That was my first step into the arena setting. To be honest, I don\u2019t get that nervous anymore. The first few shows, I definitely had a little bit of a settling in period. I did a couple outdoor amphitheaters with Kid Rock this summer but still Ford Field was intense, very intimidating. I don\u2019t get that nervous regularly, I just get really, really excited to play my music for everybody. I think that\u2019s a good spot to be in. But at the beginning, you always get nervous the first couple shows.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I\u2019ve seen you play by yourself several times and now you have the band, The Truth<\/em>. How did you find those guys? Have you been friends a long time? How did you get the band together?<\/p>\n

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Ty: The truth about The Truth is that I used to run around Detroit sharing half of Uncle Kracker\u2019s band, Marvin Young used to be in my band who is now in the Trucker Band, and Peter Keys is in my band who is in Lynyrd Skynyrd. So, I honestly didn\u2019t have a band. This is going to sound really weird but I have some friends over at the CW Network in Detroit where we actually held a band search that started with Webisodes but it got so popular that\u00a0they would air it on TV during Gossip Girl<\/em>. The Webisodes were only five minutes long or something. But we held a contest and everyone came out. I invited anyone who wanted to try out, it was kind of like American Idol<\/em> and we had a cut every week. And the guys I have now are the guys I have left. Everyone thought it was a weird idea but I felt like I got discovered by Kid Rock out of nowhere and I thought there must be some guys out there who are great players and who would really love to go out there and do that but who aren\u2019t spoiled by the scene. I found those guys. I found everyone I have and they are so cool. It\u2019s the funnest tour I\u2019ve ever been on. I\u2019m in a band full of people I like who are happy to be there and happy to play music and play great.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: And you all get along. I guess that\u2019s crazy that you put a new group of people together and you all get along.<\/p>\n

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Ty: I\u2019ll tell you right now that was a major, major consideration in picking the guys. There\u2019s nothing worse than being stuck on a van for six weeks with someone you hate. So I picked all cool guys who could get the job done. That was very deliberate because I want this to be the time of my life too. So you have to have great people around you \u2013 hard workers\u2014to enjoy yourself. And that\u2019s what I have, a band full of hard working great people.<\/p>\n

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Amy: In very close quarters.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Have you spent much time in Cincinnati or toured through there ever?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh yeah. I went through there with Uncle Kracker this year. That was awesome. We did a full band show and an acoustic show. We did it in a theater but I can\u2019t think of the name of it off the top of my head.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Anything you like to do in particular? Did you get to go out in town or do anything?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh yeah. We tore it up. We had a blast. I got some great pictures of me and the whole Kracker band just roaming around Cincinnati. Oh sorry, the second time I went back it was with Rehab. So I definitely have been through there. And I lived in Nashville and have been traveling from Michigan for five years. So I have been through Cincinnati 200 times. But I\u2019ve played there a couple times and decided to call it a night there a few times. Always have a good time in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Well great, hopefully we\u2019ll see you there soon. And you were so close there in Dayton and Columbus and now Louisville, you are kind of surrounding the area.<\/p>\n

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Ty: Well that\u2019s a pretty big show in Louisville, it\u2019s a pretty big place I think.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I\u2019m actually going to come and not photograph and just watch it. I have tickets and I haven\u2019t done that in a long, long time. So I\u2019m really looking forward to it, just to be in the crowd and drink just like I used to do at Kid Rock shows.<\/p>\n

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Ty: They can be fun. I love watching Kid Rock shows too. Isn\u2019t that funny? I\u2019d say like eight out of ten nights, I just basically sit there and watch. I have no problem saying the man is the entertainer of a generation.<\/p>\n

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Amy: He is amazing.. I tell people that many people don\u2019t sound good live and he sounds amazing live and real. And that is rare I think.<\/p>\n

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Ty: I agree with you a hundred percent and that\u2019s because I think he takes painstaking time to make what you get on the record the real thing. And we did that with my record too. He\u2019s the executive producer and he could have phoned it in or we could have e-mailed him everything. But every single day he sat there behind the counter working on the record. And he made sure he put his style and sound into it and that was his advice, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to put anything out there that you\u2019re not going to be doing every single night on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: I know you collaborate with Kid Rock all the time. Is there somebody out there you\u2019d like to work with that you haven\u2019t gotten to yet?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Yes, Adam Duritz. I\u2019m on Adam Duritz mission right now. Which is funny, my girlfriend is in the shower right now and I can hear Adam Duritz and I did an interview yesterday with a girl who is opening a blog with Adam Duritz. It\u2019s like I can\u2019t get away from the guy. They say he answers all his tweets so I may have to re-venture myself onto Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Yeah, you\u2019re going to go after him today, be his stalker. Stalk him on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Ty: I would totally look like a Adam Duritz stalker. I just love the Counting Crows so much. And I love Ryan Adams and I feel like we could do something really cool together.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Yeah, I could actually hear both of those guys with your vibe and your sound. It would be a good combination.\u00a0 Is Adam doing music now? I haven\u2019t heard about him in a long time.<\/p>\n

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Ty: I\u2019m not sure. I heard about his Twitter. That\u2019s like my mission. I just got home today so I was going to see if the internet still works. I literally woke up at 1:40 and I usually wake up at 10 o\u2019clock everyday so I didn\u2019t bother setting the alarm. I was like \u201cWhat Happened?!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: I read that you went to Kenyon College. Is that right?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Absolutely, yeah yeah. Kenyon is like the Ivy League of Division III colleges. It\u2019s very prestigious. Yahoo voted it the Most Beautiful Campus in America last year.<\/p>\n

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Amy: That\u2019s what it was. That\u2019s where I saw it recently.<\/p>\n

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Ty: It\u2019s a great, great school. You know it was a cool experience. And they have a great international program so I got to spend two semesters in England which was really cool.<\/p>\n

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Amy: So did someone just pass your demo tape to Kid Rock and that\u2019s it?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Yeah, yeah. Well obviously that\u2019s not it.<\/p>\n

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Amy: It just seems like such a crazy story.<\/p>\n

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Ty: It is. The funny thing is, that was my friend Sam and we used to work at Guitar Center. I remember we were sitting at a bar where I used to play every Monday night telling him, \u201cGod, it\u2019s too bad I can\u2019t get this CD to Kid Rock, I bet he\u2019d like it. I bet there\u2019s a million bands out there thinking the same thing.\u201d And one day he got tickets to a Pistons game where his sister says that they are close to where the owner and Kid Rock sit. So they are great seats. So he takes the demo just in case. And sure enough, Kid Rock shows up at the game. And that\u2019s how it happens. And we\u2019re in the limo on the way home, I heard because I became friends with the guy he was at the game with that night, me and him became friends later, and he was like, \u201c Dude I remember the first time I heard your story.\u201d And he told me the story from the other side and I was, \u201cOh my God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: That really is an amazing story. You lived in Nashville for a while right?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh yeah. I spent about five years in LA. I lived in Nashville. I tried a million things and to have it fall in my lap in Detroit is pure hometown magic.<\/p>\n

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Amy: What\u2019s your goals for 2011? Any New Year\u2019s resolutions this year?<\/p>\n

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Ty: Well I\u2019m very excited because our single is going to hit radio\u2026 American Style<\/em> is going to hit radio in May. I talked Atlantic into putting it onto iTunes so it\u2019s actually sitting out there now which is neat because I hope to get a lot of word of mouth about the song beforehand so when it hits radio it will do really well. I\u2019m going to be able to major label record out this year which is going to be amazing. I just can\u2019t wait. We\u2019ve been working on it for five years. It\u2019s just the time now. I feel like it\u2019s the time. Everybody seems to be behind it. The label and Kid Rock is really, really behind me. He has been extremely supportive and it\u2019s all coming together and I\u2019m very, very excited.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Hopefully we\u2019ll all survive the cruise again.<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh I\u2019m going. I\u2019m in. I\u2019m really looking forward to the cruise. You can certainly write that as part of my exciting events of 2011. That was the best times I ever had.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I told you it\u2019s my birthday. So don\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n

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Ty:\u00a0 Oh that\u2019s right, your birthday. Let me write that down. The phones don\u2019t work. That\u2019s my favorite part of the cruise is the phones don\u2019t work. And you\u2019re just all alone. Nobody can get a hold of you. And if you met someone, you never have to see them again. It was neat.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I thought Kid Rock was going to hate it. I think he went into it thinking he was going to hate it being cooped up on a boat for four days. But I don\u2019t think he did.<\/p>\n

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Ty: Oh no. He told me it was the coolest vacation he ever took. And he said the party we threw on Saturday night was the best party he ever had been to. He told me that straight out of his mouth. And I was like \u201cI WAS THERE!!!\u201d And he\u2019s been to a few good parties.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I felt good just being there being a part of it. I will definitely be there and I will find you.<\/p>\n

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Ty: You will find me.<\/p>\n

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Amy: We could have some drinks.<\/p>\n

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Ty: Absolutely. About 30 of them more than likely.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I found my limit on the boat Friday night actually. It was 17. I think I would have been okay at 16 but 17 was the limit.<\/p>\n

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Ty: We met this bartender in this artist room. And this dude in there was really nice to us and he started slipping us free drink cards. He gave me two beer cards and a whiskey card. I was like \u201cOh my God!\u201d The days I had my shows, I stayed sober til after I played. If it weren\u2019t for that I would have been off my rocker the entire cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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