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Stormcellar | |
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 Stormcellar in Sydney in 2025 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Blues, roots, rock, country, folk |
| Years active | 2008–present |
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| Website | www |
Stormcellar are an Australian blues, roots and rock band from Sydney, active since 2008. In 2019, the band won Sydney Blues Band of the Year at the Sydney Blues Challenge,[2] and represented the Sydney Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee in January 2020.
As at December 2025, Stormcellar have released 13 studio albums, two EPs, one double album, one live album and four compilation albums.
The band hosted six annual Country, Roots & Blues (CRAB) Festivals in Cooma, New South Wales, from 2018 to 2023.[3][a]
History
[edit]Stormcellar was formed in 2008 by Paul Read (guitar, slide guitar, mandolin) and Michael Barry (vocals, harmonica). Theo Wanders (drums) joined in 2009.
Read was previously a member of Sydney band Chosen Few and co-wrote their song 'Rise', which was recorded by Daryl Braithwaite in 1990 and reached number 23 on the Australian Singles Chart.[4]
Since 2008, Stormcellar have released 13 studio albums, one double album, one live album, two EPs, and four compilations by genre (blues, rock, country and folk, and instrumental). In a 2015 interview with Steve Flack for Australian Guitar Magazine, Read explained the band's mix of genres from its earliest days, noting that they "wanted to cross each song with a different genre, and make sure that the feels were different, and we just weren’t playing shuffles or swings all night ... and to have slide guitar and harmonica play the melody lines."[5] Barry told the Illawarra Mercury in 2009 that "We're doing modern blues and modern roots. We're telling new ideas, using forms that are classic."[6]
Three of their albums have reached number 1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Charts: Nuevo Retro (2010),[7] Hired Guns & Borrowed Glory (2012)[8] and Defiance (2017).[9]
Stormcellar play regularly in Sydney and regional New South Wales, and have toured multiple times in the US, including the 2014 All Colours Blues Tour during which they performed at the Crossroads Blues Festival in Rockford, Illinois.[10]
In 2014–15, the band recorded and toured with Kansas City-based blues singer and guitarist D.C. Bellamy, Curtis Mayfield's half-brother.[11] During their joint tour in Australia in 2015, Bellamy told the Sydney Blues Society's Ceinwen Brown that Stormcellar were "definitely my 'Blues Brothers'. We are having a great time together on the tour. The people here are just so receptive it's unbelievable."[12]
On their 2020 US tour, Stormcellar organised a benefit concert for Australian bushfire relief with Kansas City musicians, including Bellamy and Danny Cox, at Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City.[13]
Steve Jones of Blues Blast Magazine called the band's fifth album The Curious Assembly "cool, slick and fun", noting that Stormcellar's sound was "not completely blues, adding folk and country to the mix to make a unique and eclectic sound".[14] His review of 2024's Basilisk also pointed out the mixing of genres in Stormcellar's style: "All the cuts are eclectically mixed and produced as one would expect from Stormcellar. Is it blues? Hard to tell. It’s a little bit of everything. It’s very much Stormcellar at their best."[15]
Reviewing Kansas City Gold in 2017, Peter B. Lowry of Living Blues observed "a harder edge" to the band's blues style and noted that "the genre is not damaged one iota ... It’s successfully right in the pocket throughout."[16]
Members
[edit]In addition to Read, Barry and Wanders, other recording and touring members of the Stormcellar collective since the band's inception have included:
- Mark Graeber (drums)
- Mal Forrester (bass)
- Michael Rosenthal (guitar)[17]
- Bill Williams (guitar)
- Jo Fitzgerald (vocals)
- Michael Coggins (guitar)
- Mihret 'Fox' Focic (bass)
- Paul Surany (guitar)
- Noel Little (bass)
- Ben Halin (bass).
In Australian Guitar Magazine, Read noted that by the time of Stormcellar's second album, Nuevo Retro (2009), he and Barry had found "regular players", however "the bass players came and went. We couldn’t find anyone crazy enough to actually join the band."[5]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]- Whiskey Talkin’ (2008)
- Nuevo Retro (2009)
- Carl’s Chair (2010)
- Hired Guns & Borrowed Glory (2011)
- The Curious Assembly (2014)
- Everywhere Feels Like Home (2015)
- Kansas City Gold (2016)
- Defiance (2017)
- Safe Harbour (2018)
- Rogue State (2018)
- Signposts (2022)
- Basilisk (2024)
- Juggernaut (2025)
Double albums
[edit]- Safe Harbour / Rogue State (2018)
EPs
[edit]- Spacejunk (2009)
- Sweet Grace of Mercy (2021)
Live albums
[edit]- The Best of Downtime, Vol. 1 (2021)
Compilation albums
[edit]- Stormcellar Blues Collection, Vol. 1 (2021)
- Stormcellar Rock Collection, Vol. 1 (2021)
- Stormcellar Country & Folk Collection, Vol. 1 (2022)
- Stormcellar Instrumental Collection, Vol. 1 (2025)
External links
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ The 2024 CRAB Festival was planned but did not go ahead.
References
[edit]- ^ Sydney Blues Society (2024). "NSW Blues Artists". Sydney Blues Society. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ Sydney Blues Society (2024). "International Blues Challenge". Sydney Blues Society. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ Checkup Snowy Monaro (2024). "Nov 17: Country Roots and Blues (CRAB) Festival". Checkup. Retrieved 4 December 2025.; Monaro Post (22 November 2022). "Annual CRAB Festival Held in Cooma". The Monaro Post. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ australian-charts.com (2025). "Daryl Braithwaite - Rise (Song)". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ^ a b Flack, Steve (May–June 2015). "An Interview with Paul Read". Australian Guitar Magazine CD Online. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ^ McNamara, Catherine (31 December 2009). "Happy with the Blues". Illawarra Mercury. Newsbank. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ Moulay, Anthony V. (7 June 2010). "Australian Radio Charts #4 Blues/Roots Music April 2010". Across The Tracks - Blues and Roots Music. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ Moulay, Anthony V. (12 March 2013). "Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Chart #36 - December 2012". Across The Tracks - Blues and Roots Music. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Charts (2017). "Chart #93 September 2017". Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Charts. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
- ^ Blues Festival Guide (c. 2014). "Stormcellar – The All Colours Blues Tour". Blues Festival Guide. Retrieved 4 December 2025.; Jones, Steve (22 October 2015). "Featured Live Blues Review – Crossroads Blues Festival". Blues Blast Magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ "You Can't Push Me Away (feat. Jo Fitzgerald and D.C. Bellamy): Stormcellar". Apple Music. 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2025.; "Gig Guide". The Brag. No. 616. 10 June 2015. p. 26. Retrieved 15 December 2025.; Haddix, Chuck (17 November 2023). "D.C. Bellamy, a Kansas City Bluesman with an 'Extra Something Special,' Dies at 74". KCUR: NPR in Kansas City. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ^ Brown, Ceinwen (June 2015). "On the Road - with D.C. Bellamy & Stormcellar". The Blues Times: Official Newsletter of the Sydney Blues Society Inc. No. 266. p. 12.
- ^ Downtown Council of Kansas City (9 February 2020). "Downtown Sets the Stage for Valentine's Cheer ... and Romance". DowntownKC. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ Jones, Steve (3 September 2014). "Stormcellar – The Curious Assembly Album Review". Blues Blast Magazine. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
- ^ Jones, Steve (21 May 2024). "Stormcellar – Basilisk: All Hail the Basilisk Album Review". Blues Blast Magazine. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
- ^ Lowry, Peter B. (December 2017). "New Releases". Living Blues. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
- ^ Bryant, Sarah (9 December 2015). "On The Record with Michael Rosenthal from Stormcellar". The Brag. Retrieved 13 December 2025.