A veteran rock & roller, singer/songwriter and guitarist with a couple decades in the trenches, Stuffy Shmitt has played with everyone from The Band’s Levon Helm to Violent Femmes’ Gordan Gano and David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
About eight years ago, the poor bastard went off the rails, consumed by bipolar disorder. Finally, though, he got himself properly medicated, moved from NYC to Nashville, and was able to sort out everything he’d created during his bouts of depression and mania. The resulting album, Stuff Happens—featuring Aaron Lee Tasjan, Brian Wright and more—is Stuffy’s finest yet.
And now, on September 10th, he’s releasing a special deluxe edition, More Stuff Happens. …
Big Takeover is stoked to host the premiere of the new music video for the live deluxe-edition “Scratchin’ at the Cat,” which finds Stuffy and his band operating at full-tilt at The 5 Spot in Nashville, offering a taste of what it might sound like to hear Warren Zevon fronting The Beatles circa The White Album.
Read more and check out the new video at The Big Takeover.