Born in Huntingburg, Indiana. RB’s family moved to Ohio when he was 1year old. Both parents were huge music lovers and he credits them for his versatile musical upbringing. His father a Blues/Boogie and
Rock n Roll lover exposed him to the sounds of Little Richard, BB King,
Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis while his mother exposed him to Janis Joplin,
Johnny Cash, Herb Alpert, The Beatles, Motown and the hits of the 60’s.
At 12, his mother showed him some chords on the piano and Bill
Withers’ hit “Lean On Me” was the first song he learned. He soon started making up and playing Blues/Boogie songs without lyrics, humming melodies and pounding out beats on desktops, boxes and anything that had a drum sound. His parents got him used drum set for his 14 th birthday and though he took right to them “all those listening to him play them didn’t” he said laughing.
At 18 and just out of High School, music was still a far off dream that seemed to only happened to others, so he hired on with the Railroad traveling the Midwest with a 90 man rail gang living in camp cars in the rail yards. He learned about life fast and hard once away from his small town. After 2 years with the Railroad he accepted an offer as an Assistant
Manager at a Plumbing, Electric and Heating store in Ohio. 2 1/2 years later he had a house, 2 cars, 2 trucks, 2 motorcycles and Manager of his own store. He had all the comforts and toys anyone could ask for at his age but wasn’t content with his accomplishments and felt something was missing.
At 23, music, wanting to be a cowboy and the highway were calling his name. He sold everything except some clothes, a guitar, some harmonicas, a truck, a shotgun and moved to Colorado. There he met a seasoned Texas Cowboy who offered to teach him the ropes of breaking horses. The old timer invited RB to move to the Sky Ute Indian
Reservation Fairgrounds in Ignacio, Colorado where he was working some colts. RB taught himself to play guitar at night in a barn where he lived while learning to break horses by day. A few months passed, he got good enough with both skills and he took a job packing people into the mountains on horseback then entertaining them at night. He was paid
$35 a day, a place to sleep, and all you could eat and drink. The late John
Denver was one of those guests.

As fate would have it several cancellations occurred one hunting season and he found himself without a job. So he set up in a small bar in the Durango, Colorado area playing for tips and meals which turned into a blessing as he put his first band together out of the tiny venue.
He learned a lot from the 1980’s Durango area music scene. Not just by playing, but hearing and seeing many types of music like the legendary “Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown”, “Charlie Daniels”, various
Blues, Rock, Western, Bluegrass and Texas Country Bands who also frequented the area. In 1985 he wrote and recorded his first Blues song with lyrics titled “Fairweather Friends” which appears on his 2011 release
“Lonesome Traveler’s Blues” .
The Southwest didn’t offer any record labels to speak of so he started his own called “Wild Stallion Records” recording 3 albums with his band “Highway Robbery.” They achieved both regional and national acclaim thru airplay and a nationally released Music Video called “Frank and Jesse” a co-deal with CBT records of Texas. With the recent attention he was getting he moved to Nashville to make 3 albums with another Indie label focusing on Europe, as well as the USA establishing a Radio DJ network that still helps support him today.
In the 1990’s California got his curiosity and through a series of events he partnered with “Gwen Gordy” from the “Motown” dynasty on a catalog of his songs. He wound up under the EMI umbrella when Barry
Gordy sold 50% of “Jobete Publishing” to EMI. He met and befriended artists like “Warren Haynes”, “The Marshall Tucker Band” (who recorded one of his songs on their Gospel album) as well as doing television commercials in LA and entertaining the troops all over the world.
He spent 7 years in California before heading back to Nashville where he was asked to produce some demos for EMI after meeting Bruce
Burch who liked the live sound of his “American Music” album. Soon after that he was given the studio to record his album “Country Rocker” at
EMI Music’s basement studio. It remains one of his best productions and collection of songs to date.

True to form and “flying under the radar” he’s kept touring and recording now, 32 Countries/5 Continents/16 albums to his credit. His albums have always been a mix of Blues, Roots Rock, Americana and or
Country Music. His last two internationally released albums have consisted of Roots Rock, Blues and Southern Rock.
His latest release “Loosen Up” spent 8 months in the Roots Blues charts, receiving many stellar reviews, solid international airplay and a
2014 nomination for “Rock Blues Album of the Year” for the “Blues Blast
Magazine Awards.” It was produced by “Tom Hambridge” who also produces “Buddy Guy, James Cotton and George Thorogood”. The two made a great team co-writing 4 of the 10 songs and recording the entire project in 9 hours establishing a ‘live band feel” which seems to bring out the best in RB.
He’s been called a Country Bluesman, an Americana Artsit, a Roots
Rocker and he answers yes to them all. RB is a true example of starting with nothing but a dream, the desire to chase it, and taking it to the world, a true Artist.
Additional info:
At the time of this writing RB is putting album #17 together
From 1998-2001 between tours, he became a pilot ultimately flying Lear
Jets. In 2003 an opportunity in Las Vegas came his way, he made the move playing Casinos and creating his own Production Show with producer Gino Venezia. They titled it “RB Stone’s Americana Music
Café” a versatile Roots Music show built around his songs and still available for bookings today.