Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey

Peter Holsapple (born February 19, 1956) formed, along with Chris Stamey, the singing, songwriting, and guitar-playing core of The dB's, a 1980's jangle-pop band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure.

After the dB's broke up, Holsapple joined the Continental Drifters (no longer extant), for whom he had first produced some demos.

In 1991, he and Stamey reunited to record an album entitled Mavericks. Holsapple has one solo album, 1997's Out of My Way.

He has worked as a full-time sideman for R.E.M. and Hootie and the Blowfish onstage and in the studio.

Chris Stamey (born December 6, 1954, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. After a stint playing with Alex Chilton, and a brief partnering with MitchEaster under the name Sneakers, he formed The dB's, whose stewardship he would share with Peter Holsapple.

Stamey left the band after two albums to begin a solo career.

In 1991, he and Holsapple reunited to record an album entitled Mavericks.

After a long hiatus from recording he released two records in quick succession, Travels in the South (2004) and A Question of Temperature (2005). On the latter recording, he is backed by the band Yo La Tengo.

In 2009, Holsapple and Stamey released, "Here and Now," their second LP as a duo.

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