Bootlace Johnnie & The 99s

Released 2005. Bootlace Johnnie & the 99s was Terry Stamp’s first official release since 1975. Produced by Alistair Murphy (The Curator) it was critically acclaimed in the British, German and America press. It is available for purchase at Burning Shed and Amazon.

Christmas the Way I Like it

Bootlace Johnnie

The Ice Lizard Hometown Fair

Riverstones

Traitor’s Gate

Nightingales

Wastelanders

The Washing of the Spears

Cruel Masseur

Tender Guillotine

Bootlace Johnnie and the Ninety Nines

Arranged and Produced by Alistair Murphy

for Cromerzone productions

Terry Stamp: Vocals & Guitar

Jim Avery: Help and Support

Alistair Murphy: Guitars, Slide Guitar, E-bow & Keyboards

Mark Fletcher: Bass

Jeremy Salmon: Guitars & Tambourine

Jim Halsall: Harmonica & Backing Vocals

Laurie A’Court: Alto & Tenor Saxes

All songs Terry Stamp and Jim Avery,

Well here I am still sucking down air. I will be 59 in June, many years and far away from the twelve year old Twickenham kid learning to play skiffle songs in his bedroom and listening to them on oldseventy-eight records on my parents’ radiogram. Firstly, all credit for this CD that you are holding goes to Alistair Murphy, Faith Davies, Jim Avery and the musicians performing on it. Without their time, energy and love of music, past and present, you would be holding another CD in your hands. For me, Alistair's production and arrangements of the songs included here are simply stunning. I just thank God it is myself "doing the vocal part".

I wrote and recorded the "basic tracks" of these songs, (vocal with acoustic guitar) as far as I can recall, mainly during the nineties, in Los Angeles, some being home demos, others studio demos, songs that I really thought would never see the

light of day. So pull on them headphones, everyone included

here has left a few pointers for some future generation, saying, "that's how we were, we were born that way".

Terry Stamp, Los Angeles, April 2004.