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Rolling Stone The Metalhead Who Played Country Guitar The Steel Woods’ Jason “Rowdy” Cope died in January, but his power-chord-meets-chicken-pickin’ guitar style lives on with a posthumous album. “He was a natural bridge between feel and technique,” says Cope’s friend Jamey Johnson By Jordan O'Donnell for Rolling Stone* There’s an uncharacteristic quaver in Jamey Johnson’s baritone when talking about the last song he ever wrote with Jason “Rowdy” Cope, his longtime friend and bandmate. That song, “All of Your Stones,” ended up becoming the title trac...

Before he died in January, Steel Woods co-founder and guitarist Jason "Rowdy" Cope signed off on the track sequencing for the band's new album,  All of Your Stones. The record, the quartet's third, would begin with "Out of the Blue" and end with its title track. "I didn't realize how kind of perfect the sequencing is," admits Wes Bayliss, the Steel Woods' vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and other co-founder. "Me and Rowdy had talked about it and wrote some stuff down, but we didn't have that set until the last few days. And it was just a simple text back and forth: 'What about this?' 'What ...