A 2004 interview with Peter Stone Brown

Phillip Corder of TOSSM an online music magazine for independent musicians.

Interviewed September 13, 2004

When did you begin your music career?

I didn’t start playing out on my own till the early ’70s at various venues usually coffeehouses in the Philadelphia area. 

Who are your main musical influences? 

There’s a huge list, but at the top for a very long time would have to be Bob Dylan, The Band and Van Morrison.  But there’s other people I’ve also spent a lot of time listenening to such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Leadbelly George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Hank Williams Willie Nelson, and Bill Monroe would have to be in there as well.  I’ve made it a point to listen to and see as many of the greats as I can.  So that would include virtually all the Chicago as well as country blues artists, all the traditional country artists and later the honky-tonk artists, and then of course, all the rock and roll that was happening when I was a kid as well as soul and R&B. 

If you had to pick a couple of songs you have written that …