December 6, 1954 (1954-12-06) (age 69) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Genres
Rock, power pop, jangle pop
Occupation(s)
Musician
singer
songwriter
record producer
Instrument(s)
Guitar
bass guitar
trumpet
piano
vocals
Years active
1977–present
Labels
Car
DB Records
A&M
New Rose
Yep Roc
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Website
chrisstamey.com
Musical artist
Christopher Charles Stamey (born December 6, 1954)[2] is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. After a brief time playing with Alex Chilton, as well as Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers, Stamey formed The dB's with Peter Holsapple.
in philosophy. In 1977, Stamey founded the independent New York City record label, Car Records, which released the 1978 Chris Bell single with the tracks...
singer/guitarists ChrisStamey and Peter Holsapple, bassist Gene Holder, and drummer Will Rigby. The songwriting was evenly divided between Stamey and Holsapple...
with ChrisStamey, the dB's, a jangle-pop band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure...
in a number of school bands, some of them with his childhood friend ChrisStamey (later of The dB's). In 1980, Easter started Drive-In Studio, a professional...
Wurster worked with Caitlin Cary (2002); The Minus 5 (2002); Marah (2003); ChrisStamey (2004), and Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices (2006). In November, 2006...
Archived from the original on March 11, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2011. "ChrisStamey: The Great Escape". Spectrum Culture. July 13, 2023. Retrieved November...
performed as "Alex Chilton and the Cossacks" with a lineup that included ChrisStamey (later of the dB's) and Richard Lloyd of Television at venues like CBGB...
Whiskeytown. In 2000, Cary released her first solo EP Waltzie, produced by ChrisStamey. Cary's debut album While You Weren't Looking was released in 2002 and...
producer with The dB's Repercussion album in 1982, going on to work with ChrisStamey, Matthew Sweet, and Beat Rodeo. His breakthrough as a producer came in...
Baez, Freedy Johnston, Henry Lee Summer, Ian Hunter, Regina Spektor, ChrisStamey, Shivaree, and Dar Williams. Along with playing bass, Maby also produced...
Maverick (soundtrack), from the 1994 film Mavericks (Peter Holsapple and ChrisStamey album), 1991 Mavericks, by Johnossi, 2010 The Mavericks (1990 album)...
jangle pop band the dB's, a band he formed along with Peter Holsapple, ChrisStamey, and Gene Holder in the late 1970s. He has also performed with many other...
Sweet contributed a cover of the dB's "Ask for Jill" (with Don Dixon and ChrisStamey) for the Hoboken anthology, Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood...
Bones, Guadalcanal Diary, The Jody Grind, Love Tractor, Oh-OK, Pylon, ChrisStamey, The Swimming Pool Q's, Uncle Green, and Zeitgeist (later known as The...
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