We're a Knoxville, TN band that plays original, Appalachian roots-based music that goes well beyond the "tradition." We've been called modern folk, Americana, folk rock, folkadelic, "an Appalachian Belle and Sebastian"... We've been accused of not sounding like anyone else and having strong song writing.
"I have no idea what to call the Lonetones. They're acoustic musicians who don't always play acoustic. They're folk musicians with a love of modern psychedelia. Whatever they are, they're great." -Wayne Bledsoe, Knoxville News Sentinel
"The relationship between place and music is profound and complicated. Musicians often find a voice that expresses the aspirations, anxieties, and ambiguities of their region and their people. The members of the LoneTones certainly do. Their music rings from the mountains of Appalachia with a reverent, enduring and, at times, conflicted spirit. The band mates shoulder their geography with craft and care. They’re comfortable describing their songs as “fragile little things…kind of like souls” – songs sometimes possessing a quality of “healing.” Their music evokes place, but the LoneTones are anything but complacent. They create light-hearted music for the heavy-hearted, charming music for those charged to act." -Bradley Hanson, Knoxville Voice
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