Chris Stamey

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Chris Stamey (born December 6, 1954, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. After a stint playing with Alex Chilton, and a brief partnering with Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers, he formed The dB's, whose stewardship he would share with Peter Holsapple.

In 1977 in New York, Chris founded the independent record label, "Car Records," which released Chris Bell's single "I am the Cosmos" / "You and Your Sister" (1978).

Stamey left the band after two albums to begin a solo career.

In 1991, he and Holsapple reunited to record an album entitled Mavericks.

Chris relocated from New York back to Chapel Hill, NC in 1996, and founded a recording studio, "Modern Recording" with Scott Litt. He has worked as a producer and mixer for various artists and albums. One of his first projects at Modern Recording was recording and mixing Whiskeytown.

After a long hiatus from recording as an artist, he released two records in quick succession, Travels in the South (2004) and A Question of Temperature (2005). On the latter recording, he is backed by the band Yo La Tengo.