Chris Stamey

• It's Alright [A&M, 1987] B
• Fireworks [RNA, 1991]
• Travels in the South [Yep Roc, 2004]
• . . . The Great Escape [Schoolkids/Car, 2023] **

See Also:

• The dB's
• Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
• Sneakers
• The Chris Stamey Experience
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

It's Alright [A&M, 1987]
After two excessively eccentric solo LPs, Stamey's new wave supersession is excessively conventional, subsuming his mad pop perfectionism and repressed inner turmoil in mere well-madeness. Under the leader's iron thumb, Fier, Lloyd, Easter, Worrell, and the pack push all the right buttons, even the one marked Liftoff, thus transporting those who've been waiting five years for their hero to take them for a ride. B

Fireworks [RNA, 1991]

Travels in the South [Yep Roc, 2004]
"Spanish Harlem"

. . . The Great Escape [Schoolkids/Car, 2023]
Four decades on, ace tunesmith still needs a group to flesh his catchy out ("The One and Only [Van Dyke Parks]," "Back in New York") **