STACKABONES
''THIS RIBBON OF HIGHWAY''
2005
47:31
1 - Skin and Bones/3:25
2 - Texas Town/5:18
3 - I Been Knockin'/2:16
4 - You Wanna Be Alone/5:17
5 - True Blue/2:55
7 - Between the Lines/4:52
8 - Ballad of Maxwell/3:41
9 - Card's on the Table/3:29
10 - I Got Faith/3:12
11 - Crossfire/3:13
12 - Short and Sweet/5:06
13 - Ladder vs. Shovel/4:17
JIM BRIGHTON has been a fixture in the Jam Band Scene since the early 80's. Starting as the original Bass Player in the punk rock band MDC (with High School pal Dave Dictor), Jim soon rejoined with long time friend from Glen Cove NY, Butch Zito, to create their own band, The Solar Pigs. The Pig's morphed into STACKABONES in 1983. The two have kept the band alive for all these years. Throughout Stackabones' history, Jimmie has played hundreds of gigs, jammed with the likes of Martin Fierro, Buddy Cage, Bobby Black, Richie Havens, and Howard Wales; and has shared the same bill with Hot Tuna, NRPS, John Prine, David Bromberg, Louden Wainwright III, Canned Heat, Lucinda Williams, Mother Hips and MANY others.
BUTCH ZITO began performing at the ripe age of 3 and has never looked back. At the age of 19, he learned to play guitar and wrote his first song, Burned on Love, which Stackabones recorded in Austin, TX, in 1983. Austin was a seminal breeding ground for Zito’s songwriting chops. He often collaborated with his longtime friend and pickin’ partner, Jim Brighton. Having written over 90 songs worthy of others' ears, Zito notes, "I don’t write songs, they write themselves, I’m just a channel." Butch now resides on the East Coast and plays in various mediums of music: Bluegrass, Americana, Singer-songwriter, all playing his original material.
CHIP CLOFINE has been playing one instrument or another since he was a kid. It wasn't until a drummer friend brought him an electric bass and said, "Try this!" that he found the instrument for which he was made. Chip spent many years performing and recording with Stackabones, among other San Francisco bands, and has shared the stage with such greats as Mickey Hart, Warren Haynes, Hot Tuna, and the Aquarium Rescue Unit.
PAT KELLY began drumming in high school both, in his marching band and with the heavy metal band Fallen Angel. In 1991, he joined the very successful jam band Double Dose and played regularly with them until 1997. Pat met Butch Zito in 1997 and joined Butch’s band BZB. Most recently he played with the Delaware-based classic rock band Nine Eyes. In 2011, Pat was again contacted by Butch to join Stackabones. Pat brings all of his prior influences to provide the band with both hard driving rhythms and flowing jams.
TERI ZITO began singing professionally when she auditioned for Butch Zito's Band BZB in 2000 and became the band's backup vocalist. With a desire to exploit their harmonies even further, Butch and Teri formed an Austin roots band named Railroad Pete – yet again diving into Woody Guthrie's world for the name of their band. Their latest venture has them singing tight bluegrass harmonies in a "half-grassed" band named Morning Sky. Teri came on board with Stackabones in 2009 and can be heard lending her harmonies on their latest recording "The Wax Still Drips".
ESTEEMED COLLABORATORS:
Scott Cooper – drums, keyboards, vocals
George Marsh – drums
Howard Wales – organ, piano
Steve Doblick - guitar, vocals
Brad Reisau - harmonica, vocals
Christian Salcedo – keyboards, guitar
BIOGRAPHY
by Scott Cooper
Named after Woody Guthrie's burned daughter, Stackabones was formed in Austin, TX, by two East Coast buddies, Jim Brighton and Butch Zito. A fixture on the Austin scene in the mid-'80s, Stackabones found its way into Deadhead circles when its first single was played in between sets at a Grateful Dead show. Shortly thereafter, the band went into the studio with pedal steel hero Bobby Black to record their first album, which was quickly picked up by Relix Records, the record label arm of the magazine devoted to the Grateful Dead and the jam band scene. The band's strength was its songwriting, penned by both Brighton and Zito. Whereas other jam bands and musical moons in the Grateful Dead's atmosphere focused on psychedelic jamming, Stackabones focused on the songs. "Tall Grass" and "When the Fog Comes Rollin' In" are typical of the Brighton/Zito collaboration, with relaxing, swinging grooves and country undertones, but clearly influenced by the Grateful Dead and the Band. To add an edge, lead guitarists Brighton and Steve Doblick contributed touches of shredding psychedelic jamming. The band released a second CD in 1996, titled Cathy Ann, on the small California label Sailcat Records. In the '90s and 2000s, a version of Stackabones with Doblick and Brighton was working the club scene on the West Coast, while Zito continued working with a variety of acoustic outfits on the East Coast, including Railroad Pete, the Butch Zito Band, the Porch Chops, and Two Vagrants.
''THIS RIBBON OF HIGHWAY''
2005
47:31
1 - Skin and Bones/3:25
2 - Texas Town/5:18
3 - I Been Knockin'/2:16
4 - You Wanna Be Alone/5:17
5 - True Blue/2:55
7 - Between the Lines/4:52
8 - Ballad of Maxwell/3:41
9 - Card's on the Table/3:29
10 - I Got Faith/3:12
11 - Crossfire/3:13
12 - Short and Sweet/5:06
13 - Ladder vs. Shovel/4:17
JIM BRIGHTON has been a fixture in the Jam Band Scene since the early 80's. Starting as the original Bass Player in the punk rock band MDC (with High School pal Dave Dictor), Jim soon rejoined with long time friend from Glen Cove NY, Butch Zito, to create their own band, The Solar Pigs. The Pig's morphed into STACKABONES in 1983. The two have kept the band alive for all these years. Throughout Stackabones' history, Jimmie has played hundreds of gigs, jammed with the likes of Martin Fierro, Buddy Cage, Bobby Black, Richie Havens, and Howard Wales; and has shared the same bill with Hot Tuna, NRPS, John Prine, David Bromberg, Louden Wainwright III, Canned Heat, Lucinda Williams, Mother Hips and MANY others.
BUTCH ZITO began performing at the ripe age of 3 and has never looked back. At the age of 19, he learned to play guitar and wrote his first song, Burned on Love, which Stackabones recorded in Austin, TX, in 1983. Austin was a seminal breeding ground for Zito’s songwriting chops. He often collaborated with his longtime friend and pickin’ partner, Jim Brighton. Having written over 90 songs worthy of others' ears, Zito notes, "I don’t write songs, they write themselves, I’m just a channel." Butch now resides on the East Coast and plays in various mediums of music: Bluegrass, Americana, Singer-songwriter, all playing his original material.
CHIP CLOFINE has been playing one instrument or another since he was a kid. It wasn't until a drummer friend brought him an electric bass and said, "Try this!" that he found the instrument for which he was made. Chip spent many years performing and recording with Stackabones, among other San Francisco bands, and has shared the stage with such greats as Mickey Hart, Warren Haynes, Hot Tuna, and the Aquarium Rescue Unit.
PAT KELLY began drumming in high school both, in his marching band and with the heavy metal band Fallen Angel. In 1991, he joined the very successful jam band Double Dose and played regularly with them until 1997. Pat met Butch Zito in 1997 and joined Butch’s band BZB. Most recently he played with the Delaware-based classic rock band Nine Eyes. In 2011, Pat was again contacted by Butch to join Stackabones. Pat brings all of his prior influences to provide the band with both hard driving rhythms and flowing jams.
TERI ZITO began singing professionally when she auditioned for Butch Zito's Band BZB in 2000 and became the band's backup vocalist. With a desire to exploit their harmonies even further, Butch and Teri formed an Austin roots band named Railroad Pete – yet again diving into Woody Guthrie's world for the name of their band. Their latest venture has them singing tight bluegrass harmonies in a "half-grassed" band named Morning Sky. Teri came on board with Stackabones in 2009 and can be heard lending her harmonies on their latest recording "The Wax Still Drips".
ESTEEMED COLLABORATORS:
Scott Cooper – drums, keyboards, vocals
George Marsh – drums
Howard Wales – organ, piano
Steve Doblick - guitar, vocals
Brad Reisau - harmonica, vocals
Christian Salcedo – keyboards, guitar
BIOGRAPHY
by Scott Cooper
Named after Woody Guthrie's burned daughter, Stackabones was formed in Austin, TX, by two East Coast buddies, Jim Brighton and Butch Zito. A fixture on the Austin scene in the mid-'80s, Stackabones found its way into Deadhead circles when its first single was played in between sets at a Grateful Dead show. Shortly thereafter, the band went into the studio with pedal steel hero Bobby Black to record their first album, which was quickly picked up by Relix Records, the record label arm of the magazine devoted to the Grateful Dead and the jam band scene. The band's strength was its songwriting, penned by both Brighton and Zito. Whereas other jam bands and musical moons in the Grateful Dead's atmosphere focused on psychedelic jamming, Stackabones focused on the songs. "Tall Grass" and "When the Fog Comes Rollin' In" are typical of the Brighton/Zito collaboration, with relaxing, swinging grooves and country undertones, but clearly influenced by the Grateful Dead and the Band. To add an edge, lead guitarists Brighton and Steve Doblick contributed touches of shredding psychedelic jamming. The band released a second CD in 1996, titled Cathy Ann, on the small California label Sailcat Records. In the '90s and 2000s, a version of Stackabones with Doblick and Brighton was working the club scene on the West Coast, while Zito continued working with a variety of acoustic outfits on the East Coast, including Railroad Pete, the Butch Zito Band, the Porch Chops, and Two Vagrants.
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