Singer/songwriter Jack Schneider breathes new life into Barbara Keith’s long-lost gem “Stone’s Throw Away,” delivering a dreamy, soul-stirring cowl that turns longing, homesickness, and heartache into one thing timeless, tender, and deeply human – a standout second off his forthcoming album, ‘Streets of September.’
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We don’t have to write down the phrases ourselves to imply them – and typically, the songs we don’t write are those that discover us most deeply.
That’s the magic of Jack Schneider’s “Stone’s Throw Away”: A 50-year-old deep reduce made refreshingly new once more, it’s a testomony to the enduring energy of nice songwriting and a shocking instance of how interpretation can develop into its personal artwork type. Schneider could also be overlaying Barbara Keith, however he owns this efficiency utterly: With a honeyed voice and expressive guitar in hand, he transforms “Stone’s Throw Away” into one thing deeply private – a mirrored image of longing and loss, of homesickness and heartache. From the tender ache in his voice to the sun-drenched lilt of his fingerpicking, each second of this track feels as heat and weathered because it does timeless and human. “Georgia by no means regarded so good because it does in Tennessee,” he sings, and all of the sudden that line – so particular in setting – turns into a common meditation on distance, reminiscence, and the areas we feature with us.
My buddies from the sidewalk
have all gone residence
The time on the lodge clock
just isn’t my very own
I’ve been taken by a blind man
who swore that he may see
Now he’s fallen by the wayside
however he’s method forward of me
Only a stone’s throw away
from my blood relations
Begging mercy by the road mild,
somebody please ship me
It’s a useless man’s city
and I can’t get right down to the station
And Georgia by no means regarded so good
because it does in Tennessee
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Stone’s Throw Away,” the second single off Jack Schneider’s forthcoming third album Streets of September, out September 19, 2025. A rootsy, radiant folks report steeped in reverence and wealthy with reflection, Streets of September was recorded dwell to tape with producer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch, Outdated Crow Drugs Present) and incorporates a combination of Schneider originals and revelatory interpretations. Following June’s lead single “How within the World” (a co-write with Vince Gill, for whom Schneider performs guitar on tour), “Stone’s Throw Away” sees the Georgia-raised, Nashville-based artist honoring his previous whereas persevering with to search out his voice within the current.
“Final 12 months, I had the privilege of accompanying Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris at a Nation Music Corridor of Fame profit in New York known as All for the Corridor,” Schneider recollects. “In my day without work on that journey, I skilled the added honor of report buying with Maple Byrne, Emmy’s longtime highway supervisor and guitar tech and a music historian in his personal proper. At Technology Information in Greenwich Village, Maple pulled a self-titled Barbara Keith report from the stacks. I’d by no means heard of her, however I belief Maple’s recommendation wholeheartedly, and acquired the report at his insistence. Later that day, once I talked about my acquisition to Emmy, she was thrilled: Apparently Barbara Keith stop making music shortly after recording her self-titled album and pursued one other profession totally earlier than resurfacing in a ’90s rock band known as The Stone Coyotes.”
“After I lastly received the prospect to pay attention for myself, I used to be enamored with Barbara’s songwriting and inventive sensibilities, and was dumbfounded that so singular an artist has been largely unknown for such unimaginable work carried out again within the day. Being raised in Atlanta, one specific track caught out to me: in ‘Stone’s Throw Away’ Barbara sings, ‘Georgia by no means regarded so good because it does in Tennessee.’ I labored up a demo of the track, and Matt Andrews, who produced my report, beloved it – he had by no means heard of Barbara Keith, both, and insisted on ready to hearken to the unique till after our model was full. It was vital to each of us that we honored the track itself as a singular entity, in order that each our model and Barbara’s would be capable of co-exist; I needed to breathe new life into the track and discover my very own voice as a translator within the course of. I’m thrilled with how our recording turned out and am particularly enthusiastic about turning different folks on to Barbara Keith and doubtlessly serving to her music attain a wider viewers, even when just a few a long time late.”
Keith’s unique model, launched in 1972, is a propulsive, harmony-heavy rocker – stuffed with jangling piano, searing guitar riffs, and a near-psychedelic power harking back to CSNY’s Déjà Vu. Schneider strips all of that again. His rendition evokes the golden heat of American Magnificence-era Grateful Lifeless and the tender roots storytelling of The Band. The place Keith sang with fireplace and fervor, Schneider leans into tender readability: A mellow, free-flowing supply lets the lyrics breathe, as he turns his guitar right into a second voice – one stuffed with feeling, looking, and soul.
It’s onerous to not be struck by the resonance of the phrases. “Only a stone’s throw away from my blood relations,” Keith (and now Schneider) sings, “begging mercy by the road mild, somebody please ship me…” The track could also be a long time outdated, however its ache is evergreen – a portrait of displacement, resilience, and the unshakeable pull of residence.
I play with a road band, it’s all I do know
Held by a concrete hand that received’t let go
I used to be reduce down in a crossfire, I imagine it needed to be
It took the worst of sinners and it received one of the best of me
“Stone’s Throw Away” suits seamlessly into Streets of September’s tapestry of private and non secular exploration. Very like the remainder of the album – which incorporates covers of Carole King and Dick Siegel alongside Schneider’s personal originals – this monitor speaks to the artist’s deep reverence for the track as a vessel: A solution to carry reminiscence, to honor the previous, and to make sense of the current. As he places it, “Songs are alive. They maintain folks’s recollections alive lengthy after they’re gone, too.”
This track, and this model, show precisely that. A musical heirloom handed down and polished with care, “Stone’s Throw Away” is as a lot a tribute to Barbara Keith as it’s a triumph of Jack Schneider’s personal artistry – a dreamy, enchanting revelation stuffed with coronary heart, humility, and a complete lot of soul.
Streets of September is out September 19th. Let “Stone’s Throw Away” information you there, now streaming solely on Atwood Journal!
Only a stone’s throw away from my blood relations
Begging mercy by the road mild, somebody please ship me
It’s a useless man’s city and I can’t get right down to the station
And Georgia by no means regarded so good because it does in Tennessee
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