046 - Keio Stroud :: Humbling His Way To Success - The Rich Redmond Show Ep 46
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Born in 1980 into a musical family in Athens, Georgia, Keio Stroud started playing drums and performing at an early age. After studying at the University of West Georgia, Stroud moved to Nashville in 2000 and soon became and in demand drummer for recording sessions, touring, and television performances.
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Currently touring with Big and Rich and playing sessions in Nashville, Stroud has had an impressive and diverse career drumming for some of Nashville’s most successful and well-respected artists, producers and musicians:
Rodney Crowell, Richard Marx, Jake Owen, Deana Carter, Little Big Town, Emmylou Harris, Keith Urban, Roseanne Cash, Lee Brice, Taj Mahal, The Nashville Star television show, Jason Aldean, Tiffany, Tommy Simms, Kip Moore, Buddy Miller, Keb’ Mo’, Randy Houser, Guy Clark, Mickey Gilley,The Randy Rogers Band, Jamie O’Neal, Thompson Square, Leroy Parnell, Stoney LaRue, Peter Collins, Chely Wright, Booker T. Jones, Brian Setzer, Florida Georgia Line, Lee Brice, Terri Clark, Sarah Buxton, Frankie Ballard, Ray Scott, Halfway to Hazard, Jedd Hughes, The Wooten Brothers, Chuck Wicks, Will Kimbrough, Al Anderson, Gary Nicholson, Chad Warrix, Laura Bell Bundy, Mike Farris, John Popper, Keith Anderson, Beth Neilson Chapman, The Lost Trailers, Trent Willmon, Mark Mcguin, Wade Hayes, Joey DeGraw, Amy Dalley, Jermaine Jackson, Blue County, Victoria Shaw, Jason Meadows, Dean Dillon, Craig Wayne Boyd, Arlis Albritton, Ty Herndon, Jimmy Wayne, Chris DeStefano, Josh Gracin, Jaron and The Long Road To Love, Buxton Hughes, and many others.
Featured recordings Keio Stroud has appeared on:
“Let Us Be Americana – The Music of Paul McCartney” – various artists
“Blues Americana” – Keb’ Mo’
“Sunday Night Shout!” – Mike Farris
“Prism” – Beth Nielsen Chapman
“I Saw the Light” (Hank Williams movie) – various artists
Rodney Crowell various recordings and many others.
Rich and Keio have been friends since 2000.
A few things that came up:
-1st time playing with a guy in a cape
-The sub-monkey
-Playing with unorthodox drum sizes
-Playing music is a conversation and we need to provide comfort for people
-Rodney Crowell audition and win
-Having to memorize 100+ songs
-Rich's 5 words for Keio
-Meeting Keb Mo on a cruise ship, then recording with him
-If you want the scene to support you, you have to support the scene
-Hitting on Cindy
-Playing with Jake Owen
-WWII as his jam
-Every person should be forced to go to prison
-Living in the moment
-Shut up about politics
-Playing with Big and Rich
-Dream gig is Santana
-Writing fiction
-Kids will tell you what is coming up
-Reading the audience
-Know your product, you are your product
-Winging it
-The harder you work, the luckier you get
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