Chris Stamey

Chris Stamey – The Great Escape (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:14 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Pop Rock, Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Car Records

On his new album, The Great Escape, Chris Stamey – known for his work in The dB’s, the Big Star’s Third concerts, returns to the electric guitar sounds and melodic lyricism that informed his classic ’80s solo records It’s Alright, Fireworks, and 2004’s Travels in the South – but with a twist!. This time out, alongside adroit pedal-steel aces Eric Heywood (Jayhawks, Pretenders, Alejandro Escovedo) and Allyn Love, Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough, and Chatham County Line’s John Teer and Dave Wilson, he’s found a distinctive spin on the ’70s Southern California country-rock flavors of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

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Chris Stamey & The Fellow Travelers – A Brand-New Shade Of Blue (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:25 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings

Chris Stamey’s collaboration with The Fellow Travelers, A Brand-New Shade Of Blue, was inspired by the intimate small-combo sound of the late ’50s and early ’60s—a time when the “cool jazz” compositions of such luminaries as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk lived alongside the expanding pop vocabulary of Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb. “These are songs for late nights and rainy days,” Chris explains. “I wrote most of it in the dark of winter, in whispers, in the ‘wee small hours of the morning,’ that magic time ‘when the whole wide world is fast asleep.’ And these great singers and musicians kept that mood alive throughout the sessions that followed.”

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