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Artist
The Pink Stones
12+ albums
americanacountrypsychedelic popindie popalternative country
about
The Pink Stones is an American six-piece country-rock band led by songwriter/ guitarist/ frontman Hunter Pinkston from Athens, GA. Their debut album, Introducing… The Pink Stones, was released on the New West Records imprint Normaltown Records. The journey to the debut album began in 2015, when freshman college-student (and then punk rocker) Hunter Pinkston bought a special single by one of his favorite bands. “It was the song ‘Brass Buttons,’ Pinkston says. “One side was The Lemonheads and the other was Gram Parsons’ original version. I bought it because I was a Lemonheads fan, but I flipped it over and that was the one of the first times I’d heard Gram Parsons. I was like, I didn't know I liked country until right now.’” Inspired by his discovery, Pinkston not only began tracking down and listening to Parsons’ catalog, but took the well-travel music fan path of seeking out similar artists and influences. A native of Albany, Georgia, Pinkston grew up in a family of music fans with two sisters who played guitar and a father who lived the rock’n’roll life as a young man. “Dad was a drummer in some local, South Georgia bands during the 70s. He opened for the Allman Brothers and others and continued to be a big fan after he quit playing.” Pinkston began forming his own bands in high school and gravitated toward punk and hardcore until his B-side epiphany. “When I started revisiting what I had heard as a kid that's when I started writing my own songs. I really started listeni
