Stampfel & Weber

• Going Nowhere Fast [Rounder, 1981] A-

See Also:

• Holy Modal Rounders
• The Holy Modal Rounders and Friends
• Michael Hurley/The Unholy Modal Rounders/Jeffrey Fredericks & the Clamtones
• Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel
• Peter Stampfel
• Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans
• Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps
• Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps
• Peter Stampfel and the Brooklyn & Lower Manhattan Fiddle/Mandolin Swarm
• Peter Stampfel and Jeffrey Lewis
• Peter and Zoë Stampfel
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Going Nowhere Fast [Rounder, 1981]
Seventeen years after the original Holy Modal Rounders first recorded for Prestige, the same two voices and three stringed instruments actually sound better. Well, Weber doesn't--check out "Junker's Blues." But I've never heard anyone--anyone--sing with the sheer enthusiasm for singing that Stampfel puts out here, and where he once channeled his passion for song into folk material, now he'll take on anything from Shakespeare, with Antonia collaborating, to Phil Phillips's newly atonal "Sea of Love." A-