Back in the Spring of 2000, Jerry Teel ( The Honeymoon Killers/Bosshog/ Chrome Cranks/Little Porkchop/The Knoxville Girls ) and his then girlfriend, Pauline Owens, had a itch that needed to be scratched. After the breakdown of the famed Knoxville Girls, Jerry wanted to explore deeper his Southern Alabama roots , from which most of his musical ventures had sprung. Pauline, a Native Texan herself, knew all too well the magic that Country music held. It was close to both of their hearts, hence The Big City Stompers were born.
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*************Teel’s Stompers started out as a solo project , without a real band, other than Pauline. They called in several musicians to lay down some tracks at Jerry’s Funhouse Studio (RIP) just to have a Lower East Side Hootenanny with smoke and drink, bad jokes, and a general good time.
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*************The earliest incarnation of The Stompers included such top notch musicians as The Sadies, Jack Martin, Phil Roebuck, and Sean Condron. They recorded two records between 2000-2002. The first was simply titled Jerry Teel & The Big City Stompers where the Teels were backed by The Sadies and a vast array of NYC talent. The second was titled “ Soul Filling Station “ , named after a charismatic cult of snake handlers/poison drinkers located down the road from where Pauline grew up in the backwoods of Orange, Texas. The Stompers line up had stabilized by the 2nd recording with Jerry & Pauline (now Husband & Wife) , Jerome O’Brien ( The Dog Show & Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey birds ) , JJ Jenkins ( Alana Amram & The Rough Gems, Humbuckers ), and Scott Jarvis ( Workdogs) They played around NYC for 3 years before Jerry and Pauline decided it was time to leave NYC for a more quiet existence, back down South, in The Big Easy. The Teels set up THE FUNHOUSE SOUTH in the Lower Ninth Ward/New Orleans USA, gained an amazing Daughter, then only to lose everything they owned in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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****************The Teels have since relocated back to NYC. For a brief moment in 2008-2009 they played some shows backed by Patrick Kauffman, Jerome O'Brien and JJ Jenkins, but called it quits due to personal and creative differences. Jerry and Pauline are now rockin' out with some dear and close friends in the NYC area. They will record several new rockin', swampy, and down right rollin' in the mud dirty songs in the near future! Stay tuned for more details!!Approached by BANG! RECORDS in 2007, The Stompers released (4/08) a compilation of material recorded from their 2 unreleased masterpieces.***********************************************
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