Basic Information
Label: nope
Management: nope
Members: Barry James Payne - vocals/guitar/harmonica, playing live with Dan Henshall - Upright Bass and Steve Wood - Pedal Steel.
String Bone
Stratford, ON, CA
Folk / Roots Music / Alt.Country
Bio
String Bone (aka Barry James Payne) is a Stratford, Ontario songwriter.
Payne creates stories and statements with his songs. Sometimes about himself, sometimes about others, sometimes about his observations of the world around him. Typical stuff, until you hear how he puts his lyrics together with melody.
He has been described as "soulful & dynamic" and his lyrics have been described as "painting vivid portraits" of the world around him and "powerful".
He is on the brink of his secon...
Past Shows
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Ages: All Ages
Solingen, DE
Sun, May 30, 2010
Doors Open: 3:30 PM
Ages: All Ages
Hengelo, NL
Sat, May 29, 2010
Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Ages: All Ages
Hengelo, OV
Fri, May 28, 2010
Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Ages: All Ages
Arnhem, NL
Fri, May 21, 2010
Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Ages: All Ages
Port Stanley, ON
Comments
Pascal Antonin:
I love your songs very much, beautiful voice and guitars !!!
Mar 25
Yrral Mallik AKA Larry Gordon ...:
Wash Away Our Sins ~ Enjoyed Da Listen.Loving it right up.Thanks for sharing(:HIS SONSHINE:) Your R.N.Bro.(~;Yrral Mallik of Songramp AKA Larry Gordon Killam of Facebook Group Songwriters Unite.Over 1800 members ...
Jan 11
Ma Rain:
It's beautiful iI love the sound and the songs
Jan 05
Xenophanes Productions:
Thank you for coming. We love your songs.
Nov 16
Ian Stokol:
A smogasbord of wonderful and satisfying sonic delicacies and lyrical delights! Well done Sting Bone!
Jun 13
TREE:
southern ontario chill is fabulous. great songwriting
Feb 19
TREE:
Love the tunes!
Feb 15
Trevor Grigg:
Strong stuff, String Bone. Feels to me like you are on the verge of something very large, indeed! Thanks for the tunes; am recommending you on my site, too.
Best,
Trevor
Feb 14
Drew Hoskin:
Very Awesome tunes u have here,nice style.
Thx
Drew H
Jan 23
Airwave2Angel7-Radio:
'Powerful Lyrics, and moving music flow"....
Points of view from the 'airwave-angel'
"Airwave2Angel7-Radio'
Dec 20
Press
“….the bones of the CD is the fine songwriting, from the dramatic opener 'Nietzsche Finds A Bullfight', the bittersweet ballad, 'Midnight Train' and 'Too Young For Romance', which reminded me of Nick Lowe”
Artist Stats
Fans: 1,166
Song Plays: 1,127
Visits: 3,725
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Summer Fall
Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM
In String Bone land we've been playing some very nice shows over the last two months. We have visited Ottawa, Wakefield, Toronto, London, Cambridge, Waterloo, and Port Stanley in that time.
Dan, Steve Wood & Sylvia Chapman and I drove to Wakefield, Quebec in late August to play the famous Black Sheep Inn where we did a show with John Allaire and...




