Uncle Tupelo, Steve Earle, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Slobber Bone, The Rolling Stones, The Black Crowes, Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Lucero, Son Volt, The Jayhawks, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Elliott Smith
Sounds Like
Blue jeans, road kings, broken strings, muddy things, boot heels, hay fields, steel mills, state seals, mason jars, old cars, backyards, junkyards, river banks, water tanks, southern twangs, coal mines, white lines, moonshine, crossroads, cross hairs and other such goodness.
With a passel of rootsy songs about whiskey, women, heartache and interstate highways Truckstop Coffee cranks out a reviving take on the road-worn genre of Americana/whatever-u-call-it rock 'n roll. Named after the powerful stuff that helps keep you between the lines on those long lonely drives, this hard-working four-piece blends overdriven tube amps, telecaster twang, and rough-hewn vocals for a yesteryear sound that'll break yer heart and sew it up again with steel strings.
In their fast four years together, Truckstop Coffee has torn through a few hundred shows and had a whole lot of fun making good friends and fans. The boys have opened up for national acts like The Reverend Horton Heat, Jimmie Van Zant, The Georgia Satellites, Unknown Hinson, Drag the River, Two Cow Garage, JJ Grey & MOFRO, Corey Smith, The Red Elvises, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Magnolia Electric Co., John Ralston and more. Through plenty of blood, sweat, and backbreak, TSC has earned a reputation for delivering honest, urgent performances everywhere they play!
Current Events
The new full-length record, For Dear Life, is now available as a Name-Your-Price download at www.truckstopcoffee.com. The band plans to tour as much as possible to promote it. See ya on the road!
Discography
TSC released a five song EP in 2004.
They celebrated their first full-length recording titled One Damn Thing To Redeem in December 2006 (available on itunes). The 10-track debut is a wanderlustful journey through a blue-highway landscape of raucous roots rock and yesteryear country. It's loud overdriven guitars. It's pedal steel and fiddle. And, it was recorded one part in southern Florida and one part in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In July '08 Pete made an 11-track home recording called Fly Far Blackbird to take on his solo acoustic stomp box tours this past summer.
For Dear Life released September 1st, 2009.
What they say...
"...Truckstop Coffee has established itself as one of the top twang-rock outfits in the area (the quartet hails from Lake Worth). Led by sandpaper-but-sweet vocalist Pete Stein, the band confidently alternates between rollicking whiskey songs and somber ballads." - Wade Tatangelo - Creative Loafing - Sarasota/Tampa, FL
"Call it alt-country, Americana, roots-rock -- whatever. It's good music, period, whether you're on the road to El Paso or on the subway to Manhattan." - Jason Budjinsky - New Times
“Truckstop Coffee plants one foot in country and another one firmly in rock... The quartet revels in the rapid-fire, rockin' side of alt-country.” – Dan Sweeney - City Link Magazine
"One of the most striking things about Truckstop Coffee is that it's easy to see each member is having a blast on stage. [They] are having a great time, playing music they like and feeding off the energy of their growing audiences." - Audra Hodges - Live On Stage Magazine
Named the “Best Country Act - 2005" in southern Florida by City Link Magazine
Yeah we were supposed to be in Athens for Lucero the night you're in Atlanta but I couldn't take the next day off work so we'll be seeing you instead! Hopefully we'll get some friends out this time too!
Oh you don't know it yet, but y'all will be playing my benefit concert (if you want to, of course)! In the next month or two I should have tied down a date and how much funding I have to work with. My goal is a Saturday in late April/early May.
Thanks for adding me.as your friend love your music sound grant so keep up the grate work Hope you are having a great week! keep in touch and god bless
Sweet, yeah that's an awesome Tele. I just kind of built one similar out of the nashville tele I had. It's an ash body so the wood was already there to work with. I took out the middle strat pickup, changed the neck to a maple one, changed the bridge to a 3 saddle brass bridge and added the black pickguard. The only thing I did different is add the 4 way mod switch which gives you the option of having the 2 pickups in series in the top position. It gives you a boost almost like they're a humbucker. A really cool mod that doesn't take away that tele snap. Now I'm working on a Squier tele Michele got me for my B-day. It's actually a pretty decent guitar for the price. I'm gonna hot rod the hell out of it but it's pretty cool piece of wood to start with. Plan on making it like a late 60's tele with the Bigsby. Since my injury modding my guitars has been my new hobby until I can get back playing...LOL
