The title track from the Joe Stamm Band’s recently released EP – it hit the streets on 26th October – opens with menace as a tale of bad choices in love on a trailer park is unfolded. Mama knew as a glance that “her beauty will fade as she digs her roots into your heart“, and as the country rock gets harder it turns out that Mama knew what she was talking about. A dark heart in a murder ballad with powering guitar riffs – does it get any better?
When an album kicks in, as the title song of ‘The Good & The Crooked (& The High & The Horny)’ does, with a brittle guitar riff and a voice that is quintessentially “country”, expectations start to rise. And when a Carl Perkins style solo chases the chorus to the…
'Midwest Town' is the title track to the Joe Stamm Band's second album, a collection of songs that relate to Stamm's world of the so-called flyover states. Turns out that the small towns have as many stories to tell as the big cities - there's getting on, there's the habit…
Joe Stamm has put together a collection of songs which form the new EP 'Allegheny' on which he is joined by The Allegheny High, more usually to be found supporting Charles Wesley Godwin. And, on 'Flower of the Everglades', the whole gang is there - Stamm, Allegheny High and Charles…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
