(Kevin Reed has since replaced Owen behind the kit.) Most of the songs were captured in no more than four or five takes. To record the 2018 Proponents LP, released physically this month with digital soon to follow, Aldridge, Malone, bassist Stone Anderson and then-drummer Trent Owen set up in a loose circle in the studio. "Because before that I was listening to Ted Nugent."
"He steered me towards jazz, which I'm eternally grateful for," Malone says. That keyboardist also lived at the marina, where he'd spin Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Al Di Meola records between rehearsals. Playing in local bands with names like Earth Rival, Skyline and Blue Rock Band, by the age of 14 Malone was jamming with an older keyboard player who also managed Joe Wheeler State Park Marina.
"When I was a little kid I liked the Allman Brothers instrumental stuff I heard on the radio, just how it all felt and sounded," he says. He took up the guitar around age 12, inspired by Roy Clark's playing on the country variety show "Hee Haw." Soon, he gravitated to rock, learning songs like Kiss' "Deuce." But amid the power chords, young Malone already was interested in more complicated textures. Now in his fifties (although he could easily pass for a decade younger), Malone grew up in Rogersville, a small town located between Muscle Shoals and Huntsville.
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