John Stammers

Debut s/t LP

Cat. No.  TMB03 - CD & DL only

WONDERFULSOUND

Released 28th March 2011

John Stammers sets the standard as a purest, an artist, a painter and a decorator.

This is John Stammers long awaited debut LP, released on Wonderfulsound.  After 2 singles and a publishing deal from Warner Chappell to boot, he has brought together a handful of musicians to create an English record of songs and feelings influenced by his past, his family heritage and his life in Chorlton.

The LP begins with “Idle I’m”.  Johns trademark acoustic blues riffs give the intro to the soul we are about to be let into from there we’re straight into the soulful licks of “Here Again”.  “Hit You From Behind” does just that with an uptempo hoedown and then The Fridge, John’s, very beautiful story about his grandfather. Throughout these songs, vocals twist words like roots and  his guitar playing sings, resonates a pure cycle of sound, hypnotic and familiar, grass roots, muddy boots.

“I listen to a diverse range of things I suppose, from Sebastien Teller to Lone Pigeon via the early solo records of McCartney through to the experimental sounds of White Noise.  All these musical characters have influenced this album.  John Fahey and Pentangle have also had an extreme effect on me.” 

Time has been spent on recording these songs with everything being mixed to tape.  Vinyl copies of this LP will be mastered from tape.  Producing a true analogue experience.  The only digital process occurs when the songs are transferred to CD and even then it was transposed via a Vinyl cutting Lathe so even the CD master has that authentic tone and quality of a vinyl record.

“Miles from Wonderfulsound, mastered the final songs and then we went to a guy in east London who had just brought Motown’s cutting lathe and we ran the masters through this and back onto digital.  It has given it that vinyl compression that I love about records.  There’s nothing like it.  It sounds great.”

 Live shows have seen him perform solo and at other times backed with his occasional and finely tuned band, unnamed but reliably solid and always leaving behind a string of new believers scattered amongst an agreeably, captivated audience.  Supporting the likes of Lone Pigeon and Alfie.

John Stammers lives in Chorlton, a leafy Suburb of Manchester, England.  With artists, musicians, and young entrepreneurs setting their roots down and the streets littered with Shops, restaurants, café’s, and Bars, it has been said that Chorlton is the  “Laural Canyon of the North of England” and John Stammers is part of the Furniture.  The Dulcimer, a tavern dedicated to the gospel of folk, jazz, pop and all things Balearic, is where you might catch John either playing live or talking music till midnight.

John Stammers is going to capture the hearts of many a music fan with this killer album; a mix of jazz/blues/folk/balearic filled with well-crafted melodies and instrumental pieces, hints of trad arrangements and flashes of contemporary Popular song.  John has managed to forge his way into a rather overpopulated live music scene and has effortlessly left his mark.