TERRY STAMP - Fatsticks LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition of 100 copies on "Blue Ocean" swirl. Black wax also available. One time pressing of 500.

Highly recommended.

You may have caught The Hard Quartet (Stephen Malkmus, Jim White, Matt Sweeney and Emmett Kelly) mentioning Terry Stamp in an Instagram post as part of a Pitchfork series where they highlight an artist whose music you cannot stream. The only means to listen to their output is by OWNING their records. What a novel concept. 

We just restocked Blue Redondo and Twenty Rough Rotters - all highly recommended. The COLOURED BALLS reissues you've been waiting on will be entered in the next hour.

THIRD WORLD WAR vocalist/chopper guitarist TERRY STAMP’s criminally obscure and exceptionally brilliant debut solo album, back in print for the first time since '75. Recorded in Oct '74, about 15 months after his previous outfit, Third World War, finally called it a day. Terry is backed by a killer crew of ringers consisting of his old TWW cohort, bassist Jim Avery (ex-The Attack, Thunderclap Newman), in addition to lead guitarist Ollie Halsall (Timebox, Patto, Boxer), pianist Mike Moran (David Bowie) and the latter-day T. Rex rhythm section with Herbie Flowers (he of "Walk On The Wild Side" bass line fame) and drummer Tony Newman (Sounds Incorporated). 

This album didn't have much of a chance upon its original release in July 1975: no promotion, no label support, and Terry had already bailed the UK for the greener pastures of America by the time it was released. This album is another case of Just Add Water Records having the chance to right history's wrongs by shining a light on a very deserving release that was literally ignored/shunned upon its initial release.

Just as in his days with THIRD WORLD WAR, Terry isn't beholden to any one style. This album has it all - from pub rocker "Motor Head", the boozy plaintive cry of "Town Drunk", to Terry's best ballad this side of “Stardom Road Part 1”- the closing title track, “Fatsticks”.

Check out "Itchy Feet" below...