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 generally, 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 minimize made refreshingly new once more, it’s a testomony to the enduring energy of nice songwriting and a surprising instance of how interpretation can change into its personal artwork type. Schneider could also be protecting 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 tune feels as heat and weathered because it does timeless and human. “Georgia by no means appeared so good because it does in Tennessee,” he sings, and out of the blue 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 means 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 lifeless man’s city
and I can’t get all the way down to the station
And Georgia by no means appeared 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 people document steeped in reverence and wealthy with reflection, Streets of September was recorded reside to tape with producer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch, Previous Crow Drugs Present) and contains 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 seek 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 break day on that journey, I skilled the added honor of document buying with Maple Byrne, Emmy’s longtime highway supervisor and guitar tech and a music historian in his personal proper. At Era Information in Greenwich Village, Maple pulled a self-titled Barbara Keith document from the stacks. I’d by no means heard of her, however I belief Maple’s recommendation wholeheartedly, and acquired the document at his insistence. Later that day, after 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 possibility to pay attention for myself, I used to be enamored with Barbara’s songwriting and artistic sensibilities, and was dumbfounded that so singular an artist has been largely unknown for such unbelievable work accomplished again within the day. Being raised in Atlanta, one explicit tune caught out to me: in ‘Stone’s Throw Away’ Barbara sings, ‘Georgia by no means appeared so good because it does in Tennessee.’ I labored up a demo of the tune, and Matt Andrews, who produced my document, beloved it – he had by no means heard of Barbara Keith, both, and insisted on ready to take heed to the unique till after our model was full. It was vital to each of us that we honored the tune itself as a novel entity, in order that each our model and Barbara’s would be capable of co-exist; I needed to breathe new life into the tune 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 probably serving to her music attain a wider viewers, even when just a few many years late.”
Keith’s authentic 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 hearth and fervor, Schneider leans into mushy 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 laborious 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 tune could also be many years previous, however its ache is evergreen – a portrait of displacement, resilience, and the unshakeable pull of residence.
I play with a avenue band, it’s all I do know
Held by a concrete hand that received’t let go
I used to be minimize down in a crossfire, I imagine it needed to be
It took the worst of sinners and it received the very best of me
“Stone’s Throw Away” suits seamlessly into Streets of September’s tapestry of private and religious 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 tune as a vessel: A technique 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 tune, 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 completely 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 lifeless man’s city and I can’t get all the way down to the station
And Georgia by no means appeared so good because it does in Tennessee
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