Member Since: 4/12/2006
Band Website: er...you're on it...?!!!!
Band Members: 'COME WITH ME'...if you enjoy this....go and click on TRACEY CHAPMAN SMITH (see pic below) for her gorgeous recording!.....'CARRY ON'...A NEW PRODUCTION BY STEVE CHAPMAN SMITH...my vocal and guitar with the rest played by Steve and vocals by Steve and Tracey............
'HEAVEN TOO' is a 'MySpace' collaboration.....I sent Steve and Tracey Chapman Smith a guitar/vocal track and they added lovely instumentation and vocals...I love these guys!...the lyrics are by my longtime buddy Steve Gammond......
'VELVET OVER BROKEN GLASS'...NEW MIX....just Pete....
'ABOUT NOW'...NEW RECORDING...just Pete....
Influences: 'Take me back.....take me way way way way back...to when everything made more sense in the world...' one of many sublime moments by Van Morrison!.....'let it loose' by the rolling stones (from 'exile on main street'...the last great stones album....)....'looking for the heart of a saturday night' one of many great Tom Waits songs ..............anyway...here's the real deal as I see it....... The late, great Lowell George and Little Feat...John Martyn,Van Morrison, Bob, Bruce, Jackson, Joni, The Band, Greg Brown, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely, Steve Earle, Jackie Leven, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Ry Cooder,, ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons is an amazing singer as well as a guitar slinger!!!), Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Kelly Joe Phelps, Ray Lamontagne, Ryan Adams, Townes Van Zandt, Micheal McDonald, Gretchen Peters, Loudon Wainwright, Richard Thompson, of course John Prine, then there's Woody, Hank, John Lee, Wolf, Muddy, Bill Morrissey and all the usual suspects...years of bar room banter....oh, and recently the wonderfull Johnny Dickinson, Anders Osborne, Norah Jones, Steve Gammond, The Troubadors...........
Sounds Like: ....I need a drink..........
Record Label: psn recordings
Type of Label: Indie