Watch Stephen Stanley & Chris Bennett perform an intimate set Sellers & Newel Books & Speakeasy in Toronto. They played stripped down material from their roots rock band The Stephen Stanley Band. The video was shot by Sean Ryan.
The duo wil return to the venue on May 16.
Canadian quartet roots rock The Stephen Stanley Band have made a video for Under the Mynah Bird, a track from their Jimmy & the Moon album. Stanley's grandfather worked in a sporting goods store right beneath that music club in Yorkville, where artists like Neil Young and Rick James played at the start of their career. He wonders if his grandfather heard anything of the music that was being performed right above him. The clip was directed by Sean Ryan. Singer Hadley McCall Thackston played the barkeep, in character with her part on the album.
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HCTF review of Jimmy & the Moon.
Roots rock band have to mean it or things will apart pretty damn quickly. But when it's done right, it can be great and heartfelt. Canadian quartet The Stephen Stanley Band are pushing all the right buttons on their new album Jimmy & the Moon, with rollicking songs about legendary coffee house (Under the Mynah Bird - this should ring a bell for Neil Young and Rick James fans) and an inebriated stranger raving about Earth's companion in the title track.
The core quartet called in a few favours to fill out the sound and lend a hand with the vocals. Birthday Clown is turned into a sad but hilarious send-off song and Next To me sonds decidedly Iirish with call-and-response vocals about making amends and settling the score. Jimmy & the Moon is a worthy addition to the stack of albums marked "road trip music". Upbeat, funny, sad and with enough layers and lyrical twists to press repeat. Producer Hugh Christopher Brown made sure it all sounds energetic and close to what they sound like on stage.
