I'm making an eleven track studio album of original songs at the moment. Today I wanted to do a few bits of recording that I'm able to do in my home studio, that get added into the "proper" studio mix, but I spent the entire day doing admin for the album; emailing and phoning the musicians, producer, engineer etc to arrange recordings, payments, rehearsals, etc - a totally music-less day. I can see why musicians have managers! So feeling pretty frustrated tonight I picked up my guitar and just wanted to play and sing something, anything, that wasn't one of those eleven songs. I love this song - it's a real handful in every way, took me weeks to learn and it has totally gotten under my skin. I never tire of listening to the incredible original. I perform it live a bit but have never played it straight through without making a pretty major stuff-up - this time included! So I play it differently every time. A curly customer of a song but such a good 'un. I thought I'd press record, finally, for the first time today. It's just one take and as usual the song got the better of me but it's not the kind of song you want to perfect and fix, so I hope you enjoy it anyway. Thanks heaps for stopping by to listen. Steph :)

Chuck E's in Love - Rickie Lee Jones

Hi and thanks for checking out my page.

The style of music here: indie-folk/pop, americana, soul.

Steph Casey is a singer-songwriter who lives on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand. Her sound is a mix of indie-folk and alt-country, and her debut album landed in the top five of the NZIM Album Charts. Her songs have been licensed for NZ feature films and Government videos.

In June 2019 she released the single At a Bar Downtown which the Official NZ Music Chart included in their “Ones to Watch” platform, which flags NZ tracks that are surging on radio, download & streaming platforms.

The single was followed by her second studio album The Seats in My Car (released July 2019). The album was recorded at The Surgery, Wellington, by multi-award-winning engineer Lee Prebble (Trinity Roots, The Black Seeds, Phoenix Foundation). Casey is backed by a stellar cast of New Zealand musicians including Caroline Easther (The Chills, The Verlaines, Beat Rhythm Fashion) on drums,  Alan Galloway (Let’s Planet, Galloway) on electric guitars, Murray Costello (The Mockers, The Wooden Box Band) on bass, and Alan Norman (The Warritahs, Rag Poets) on accordion and Hammond organ. The album received a five-star review from music.net.nz and a favourable review from respected NZ music writer Graham Reid. 
For reviews, videos and upcoming shows visit www.stephcasey.com