Chris Stamey - Anything Is Possible (Official Video)

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CREDITS:
Chris Stamey: singer, all guitars, keys & basses, director, editor
Rooster McGhee: Producer
The Lemon Twigs, Pat Sansone, Wes Lachot: harmonies.
Mitch Easter: drums.
Norwood Cheek: video editor.
Footage shot by Norwood Cheek, Cogan McMichaels, and Tammy Easter, with some images from Méliès's classic film The Mysterious Retort (1906).

Story behind the song:

For a moment in 2023, it seemed as if room-temperature cold fusion power was within our reach. Alas, not yet! But still . . . sometimes science makes a leap and everything gets better (cars that don’t burn fossil fuels, cell phones) . . . or worse (cell phones?). Not sure where finding life on Mars would fall, though. But as we lurch toward a new Dark Ages, I have to remind myself: trust the science. And live in hope. . . . I was already deep into the writing of this record in 2023 when I did a short Sneakers tour with Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, R.E.M.’s first producer). And it reminded me of the fun he and I used to have recording in the basement in high school on an analog four-track, playing all the parts. When this song showed up—in its electric heaviness, an outlier from the rest—we cut it like that: Mitch (known for his guitar playing) played bombastic drums, I played the guitars and bass, and I kept it simple. Back then, we’d loved the British band the Move, with Roy Wood’s great songwriting and Bev Bevan’s swaggering, carefree drumming. (Bev and the better known John Bonham were cut from the same Birmingham, UK, cloth, FYI.) So there are a few tips o’ the hat to the Move in this song. What really gave it liftoff, however, was when the Lemon Twigs, Pat Sansone (Wilco) and Wes Lachot added their soaring voices on the harmonies: thanks, gents!!

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