Chris Stamey

Chris Stamey is a towering figure in alternative pop, a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist who can deliver jangly guitar rock, thoughtful acoustic sounds, or moody, late-night blues with equal skill and effectiveness. Anticipating power pop in 1976 with the Sneakers, Stamey fused the sensibilities of Big Star to new wave pop with the dB's on 1982's Repercussion, later blending angular melodies with playful melodicism on his 1987 solo effort It's Alright. Stamey detoured into introspective semi-acoustic pop with his former dB's bandmate Peter Holsapple on 1991's Mavericks,...