Artist description Clonetheory is a coalition of the dreams and promises and broken promises and love and hate and everything else that comes along with life. A shared devotion to something that we learn as we go along. As we fight to make our dreams realities we write songs that reflect the world as we know it, from our relationship with God to the struggles with our own human nature. Clonetheory’s sound is very organic, from the vintage guitars and classic hammond organ to the banjo and fender rhodes. We are a band that plays for the moment and loves to improvise. As a result, songs may never be played the same way twice. Our goal is to carry our message in the only form that we know, rock’n’roll, and to do that with integrity and passion.

Music Style rock n roll

Musical Influences Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Phish, Black Crowes

Similar Artists Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Phish, Black Crowes, Santana

Artist History Clonetheory started at a little place called “The Country Cafe”. We rode our bikes to the cafe and used the house band’s instruments. We were asked to play even though at the time we were not a band(in fact, it was the first time we had ever played together). Later that night, along with Shane Mullins and Kirk Justice, Billy and I(Kevin) performed an improvised set including a blues jam and “She Talks To Angels” by The Black Crows. We were asked back the next night to fill in for the house band. We adopted the name “Clonetheory” from an old Electro Harmonix guitar pedal and within 24 hours of becoming a band, played a four hour set. The set included a version of “Another Brick in the Wall” that lasted over 45 minutes. The weeks that followed gave way to new songs and line-up changes, which included Shane leaving and Tony joining. As of then the line-up was Billy on guitar and vocals, Tony on bass, Kirk Justice on drums, and I was playing guitar. Some of the first songs written were early versions of what have become, “Earth”, “River”, “Down on my Knees”, and “Called a Liar”. Soon after those first improvised gigs I began playing keys more and more to accommodate the new songs we were writing. We were developing the sound which has become “Clonetheory”. A show at the Skate Park(a place we would play at a lot in the future) was the last time Kirk played with Clonetheory. He went on to play in other bands including “Bigtone” and “Facedown”. Josh took his place. With Josh in the line up, we started recording a demo that included five songs, “Here”, “On My Knees”, “Called a Liar”, “Earth”, and “Tribulation”. We only played “Tribulation” live one time, at an early outdoor gig in front of a dairy bar. Soon after the demo was finished Dwain Stevens began playing percussion and harmonica for the band which resulted in the line-up that penned the songs, “Flood”, “Long Highways”, and “Song One”. These songs went on to become the “Somewhere After the Cafe” album. As 2000 rolled around more change came. We recruited Tim Smallwood for second keyboard and had a short lived stint with second guitar player Andy Ballou. By the end of the year the current line-up was intact and we released or first full-length album, “Somewhere After the Cafe”.

Group Members billy newsome...............vocals, guitar, banjo tony newsome..............bass, big muff josh slone....................drums, bongos timmy smallwood........keyboards kevin harmon..............keyboards, guitars

Albums Somewhere After the Cafe

Location Pikeville, KY - USA

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