A guitar wielding singer/songwriter with heart and soul who sings stories of experiences and keen observations. Then again, sometimes he'll just rock out.

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, BLUES: Folk-Blues

Details:
In 1984 Greg and I decided to make sure weâd have a recording of every song he had written from when he wrote his first song in 1969 to his most recent to date. We recorded them in chronological order. We present them here in alphabetical order to mix things up a bit for variety.

We will release more recordings as we finish re-mastering them.

We hope you enjoy.

Russell Calabrese
Engineer/Producer
March 2008

What you, the listener, will hear are the songs exactly the way they were first imagined and then catalogued, with no arrangements or production, just vocal/word and acoustic guitar. The styles varied as we went from song to song and I truly never thought that they would ever be used as anything but documentation, much less entertainment. But amazingly, they still stand, and they do tell some cool stories.
Not every one is a home run, by any means, but please remember the name of this first collection:âThe Catalogue Tapes Vol.1â This is a place where three guys were attempting to sort and produce a huge amount of material because that was the way it was supposed to be for us. It is a tremendous effort to make real all the things you talk about when you walk around suburbia and talk all night and dream. We were embarking on another great adventure together and quite frankly, to this day, I canât think of a better place to be: singing stuff I wrote to my brothers, about a place we all knew well and people we all knew even better. With this first CD, and in many other good ways, we are there together still. Please listen and enjoy, as the songs are now for you.


Greg Stier
Musician
March 2008

The Catalogue Tapes Vol. 2 should be available later this month or early April.

Below an article excerpt:

Guitarist Has No Time To Fret
Elias Holtzman, The Home News & Tribune, January 9, 1997

Greg Stier of Metuchen, a singer-songwriter himself who writes songs in the "story" line, has chosen a life in music that still allows him a chance to be with his family of a wife and two young children. Stier is a manager at the Sam Ash music store on Lincoln Highway in Edison* and has a clientele of at least a dozen young singer-songwriters daily.

Greg has played the coffeehouses and clubs and knows how tough a road it can be. But there are compensations, he notes.

Stier quotes poet Donald Hall: "When I was 20, I wrote poetry because I was 20. Now, at 40, I write poetry because I am a poet." Stier, who is 42, is a musician. He plays and performs because he is a musician. "It's a harder hustle these days," says Stier.

Now in 2008 Greg Stier is a teacher at Linden High School in Linden, NJ. His children are not as young and he still writes and plays music.

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