Drawing from a blend of genres, staggerlee stonebreaker creates songs of life, love, and the pursuit of the forever elusive. Their work has been described as "raw, timeless, and essential."

15 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, FOLK: Folk Blues



Details:
Staggerlee Stonebreaker was formed in the autumn of 1993, the brainchild of Lance Boyle, an unemployed parolee from Stoughton, Massachusetts. Boyle claimed to have seen God during a period of âquiet dissipationâ and received divine instruction to form a band âthe likes of which the world has never wanted to see (sic).â He accomplished little until a serendipidous traffic altercation with one Staggerlee Stonebreaker, a terminated used automobile salesman who happened to have taken up the guitar some weeks earlier. âStagâ knew of several failed musicians, marching band types in bad marriages, who Boyle and he felt might blend. Negotiations ensued, and one by one they were snared: Juke Nawlins, an individual who could play bass âstunnedâ by whatever drugs happened to be available while prancing like a Jesus lizard; Stix, a one-named and one-eyed âUncle Janeâ whose drumming had induced concussions in neighbors; and Johnny Flamingo, a tragic error from the moment of conception but a reasonably adequate keyboard player with a distinctive whiny âhelp me, beat meâ sort of vocal presentation.

Plans were sealed. Boyle would manage Staggerlee Stonebreaker , and they braced themselves for fame, money, girls, and girls.

Mercifully, few tapes of the band survive. They missed their one live engagement when Juke drove to Rochester, New York, while a crowd of three paced in Rochester, Massachusetts.

On June 3, 1994, the divine sense of humor interceded. The entire band perished in a carnival mishap while Boyle looked on helplessly in hopeless horror. With events of the following days charitably omitted, enough said that Boyle was unavailable to pursue musical interests for the following 10 years to the day.
Now Boyle has his band.

The music. Personally I donât like it. If thereâs a genius involved here, he must have endured a blinding stroke. Boyleâs efforts to be funny and entice young women are the stuff of science, certainly not of entertainment. The abandon of some of the bandâs âfansâ seems more to me as some variation of radical incontinence---or a carriage race to oblivion. Do hop in.
O. Wilde, 8/7/2006, London