Anything Is Possible is the latest collection of original material (and one affectionate cover) from North Carolina songwriter / vocalist / guitarist / producer Chris Stamey, an indie rock icon with a storied long and illustrious history that’s encompassed co-founding seminal avant-pop band the dB’s, playing with Alex Chilton in the 70s and more recently with Jody Stephens’s Big Star Quintet, and recording with the all-star smart-pop outfit the Salt Collective. The album was produced by Stamey at Modern Recording in Chapel Hill, NC.
“This album is a love letter to the kind of harmonically rich yet often lyrically innocent pop music I heard, on the family turntable and especially on AM radio, growing up in the late 50s and mid-60s in the American South. I have since come to understand more about the nuts and bolts of those songs, but the magic of those first encounters remains,” explains Stamey.
Featuring contributions from The Lemon Twigs, Don Dixon, Marshall Crenshaw, Matt Douglas (Mountain Goats) and more!
Cover “Doodle” by Faye Hunter, used by permission; back cover photo by Daniel Coston.
Band portraits by Holden Richards, Tammy Easter, Shannon Kelly, Bill Reaves, and Sam Flickinger.
Graphic design by The Splinter Group and Jon Krop.
TRACK LISTING:
- I’d Be Lost Without You
- Anything Is Possible
- After All This Time
- Meet Me in Midtown
- Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
- When My Ship Comes In
- In a Lonely Place
- Once, on a Summer’s Day
- Done with Love
- Au Revoir and Goodbye
- Leaves in the Wind