Not too long ago, Chris Stamey has been everywhere in the musical map, as a performer, arranger, composer, musical director and producer. With the 11-track The Nice Escape (Schoolkids), the dB’s singer/guitarist efficiently set his sights on the early-‘70s SoCal nation/rock of the Byrds/Burrito selection, bringing buddies like Mitch Easter, Peter Holsapple, Don Dixon and Caitlin Cary alongside for the journey.

Talking of rides, the video for the LP’s opening title monitor finds Stamey taking one behind a pickup truck, strumming his banjo. Although it shares a title with the 1963 Steve McQueen conflict film, Stamey’s “The Nice Escape” is about battle of a extra private selection.

Says Stamey, “I used to be chewing the fats with a good friend a number of years again. A man who seemingly had every part: a loving spouse, a ravishing new home, a number of cash within the financial institution, a profitable profession. When out of nowhere, he confessed, ‘Each time I get to that stoplight on the prime of the hill and switch proper to enter city, I’ve such a powerful inclination to show left as a substitute and simply preserve driving. Depart all of it behind. Disappear and by no means look again. On daily basis I really feel like this.’ I used to be form of shocked: ‘You, of all individuals? Actually?’ However the extra I thought of it, the extra I assumed that maybe some a part of that impulse is in all of us: to run from happiness, simply blow all of it up, hit the highway, discover that path not taken and burn it up. So this tune explores such a man, somebody who did flip left. Who’s now on the run from his previous and in search of his future, maybe sleeping days within the parking zone at Walmart, hoping to win the lottery.

“After I combined it later, I used to be considering of summer-car information by the likes of Mungo Jerry, Norman Greenbaum and T.Rex, though I can’t declare to have approached that stage of greatness. However I wished it to sound like one thing that the man within the tune might need dialed in on his automobile radio, one thing that may have been his soundtrack.”

We’re proud to premiere the video for “The Nice Escape.” Test it out now.