Doug Stone Farewell Tour

After more than three decades of bringing his signature brand of country music to fans around the world, ‘90s country hitmaker Doug Stone has decided it’s time to hang up his cowboy hat, but not before giving his fans one last opportunity to catch a show and sing along to songs that shaped the 90s era of country music on his farewell tour.

“I’ve been on the road for 34 years, and I’m still in pretty good shape,” says Stone. “I’ve missed a whole lot of family life. I’ve got a seven year-old daughter now, and it’s time to come off the road and have a home life.

Stone made his name as a lonesome baritone balladeer, though he’s also adept at hard uptempo country. Stone was born in Marietta, Georgia, and learned guitar from his mother — also a country singer — starting at age five. As a teenager, he performed in skating rinks in his hometown and later moved on to playing area bars while working long hours as a mechanic during the day. Stone was already several years past 30 when a Nashville-based manager saw his act and helped him finally land a record deal with Epic. His self-titled debut was released in 1990 and broke him in a big way with the despairing lead single “I’d Be Better Off (In a Pine Box),” which shot into the country Top Five. Stone landed three more Top Ten hits from the album, including “Fourteen Minutes Old,” “These Lips Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye,” and his first number one, “In a Different Light.” He quickly completed a follow-up album, I Thought It Was You, for release in 1991, which confirmed his downtrodden persona and became his second straight million-seller on the strength of three Top Five hits: the title track, “Come in Out of the Pain,” and a second number one in “A Jukebox with a Country Song.” Shortly before the release of his third album, From the Heart, in 1992, Stone underwent quadruple bypass surgery; he recovered in time to issue the holiday album The First Christmas by year’s end. Meanwhile, “From the Heart” kept spinning off one hit after another: “Warning Labels” and “Made for Lovin’ You” went Top Ten, and both “Too Busy Being in Love” and “Why Didn’t I Think of That” topped the charts. Stone continued his frantic hitmaking pace with 1993’s More Love, which contained three Top Ten smashes in “Addicted to a Dollar,” “I Never Knew Love,” and the title track. Like From the Heart, More Love went gold, and Stone followed it in 1995 with the compilation Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, whose newly recorded “Little Houses” went Top Ten. Later in the year, Stone returned with Faith in Me, Faith in You; while it featured hits in the title track and “Born in the Dark,” nothing reached the Top Ten. To make matters worse, his health problems continued: in December 1995, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack, and the recuperation time put the recording of his next album on hold. In 1997, Stone was nearly killed in a plane crash, and all the near-death experiences led him to slow down his touring and recording pace. He eventually parted ways with Columbia and went to Atlantic for 1999’s Make Up in Love, his most pop-oriented offering to date. It was his only album for the label, and he subsequently moved to the Audium label for 2002’s The Long Way. Live at Billy Bob’s Texas was released by Smith Music Group in 2009. In 2012 Doug Stone hit the road again bringing his hits to venues and fans around the country. It also inspired him to go back and pull out all the demo sessions he had recorded over the previous 20 years and in 2014 he released the album “Doug Stone ‘The Demo’s’: 20 Years of Life”.

Now in 2024, thirty-four years, 8 Number One hits, 15 TopTen singles, and over 10 Million album sales later, the singer of timeless Country gold like “A Jukebox with a Country Song” & “In a Different Light” is undertaking one final tour. For Stone, his years on the road have been an answered prayer, and he plans on stepping off the stage with the same gratitude with which he stepped onto it.

“I asked the Lord to allow me to do this more than 30 years ago. He’s let me, and I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve given everything I’ve got to my fans, and it’s about time to give some to my family,” says Stone. “I just want to thank all the fans for letting me do this for a lifetime and loving the music.”

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