While it might be a ridiculously huge stretch to say that Chris Stamey has collaborated with every great musician on the planet, he’s certainly made the rounds in the indie universe. His connection to Big Star and Television are the first resume items of note. In the 1970s, he recorded with Richard Lloyd, played bass for Alex Chilton and later released Chris Bell’s “I Am the Cosmos”/“You and Your Sister” single on his Car label.
The following decade was marked by his storied work in the dB’s with Peter Holsapple, a songwriting partnership that outlived the band by a few decades before a 2012 dB’s reunion. In the ’90s, Stamey crossed paths in the studio with Yo La Tengo, Whiskeytown, Le Tigre and other acclaimed acts. More recently, Stamey’s Ardent Studios…

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