Song Shards by Peter Stampfel

“Next to Bob Dylan, Stampfel is the closest thing to a genius that [the folk scene] produced.”
– Robert Christgau

"Song Shards" is a new album from Peter Stampfel, founder of the Holy Modal Rounders and the Fugs.

This 46 track album features ancient Stoic aphorisms, set to to music by Stampfel, as well as his own aphorisms (song shards) - and a selection of 1940's advertising jingles. Most of the songs are very short!

And don't miss the extensive, illustrated, 14,000 word liner notes, available digitally: bit.ly/Songshards

Song Shards by Peter Stampfel
Jalopy Records
JR029

Tracklist

1.	Muses Nine	1:41

2.	Maximum Love	1:39

3.	Every Person	1:25

4.	Open Me	1:55

5.	More Wack	1:30

6.	Swell Hells Bells	1:16

7.	Day Go By	1:53

8.	The Obstacle is the Way	1:01

9.	God May Be Indifferent	1:14

10.	Please Help Me	2:01

11.	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	1:24

12.	Find a Way	1:10

13.	Be Strict with Yourself	1:08

14.	You Are the Product	1:22

15.	Hail Mary	3:36

16.	Love The Hand That Fate Deals You	1:18

17.	The Road	1:20

18.	You Fight for Your Life	1:48

19.	Focus	1:23

20.	New Prayer of Jabez	3:28

21.	Ajax	0:10

22.	All-Purpose Rit	0:08

23.	Aunt Fanny’s Bread	0:20

24.	Blatz	0:17

25.	Castro Convertible	0:20

26.	Cream of Wheat	0:27

27.	Elsie, the Borden Cow	0:40

28.	Goldblatt’s	0:12

29.	Libby’s Canned Food	0:15

30.	Linco	0:27

31.	Log Cabin Syrup	0:26

32.	Old Timer’s Beer	0:14

33.	Omar Bread	0:24

34.	Pepsi-Cola	0:28

35.	Postum	0:21

36.	Prell Shampoo	0:28

37.	Rival Dog Food	0:24

38.	Robert Hall Clothing Store	0:33

39.	Sal Hepatica	0:11

40.	Super Suds	0:06

41.	Swift Premium Franks	0:13

42.	Beer Jingle	0:08

43.	White Rose Petroleum Jelly	0:47

44.	White Tower Hamburgers	0:18

45.	Whitman’s Sampler	0:35

46.	Wisconsin Super Service Stations	0:33

Credits

released September 19, 2025

Soul Jingles & Stoic Jingles
Mark Bingham, guitar
Michael Cerveris, guitar and vocals
Jonathan Frelich, guitar
Jo Morris, vocals
Al Pianovich, piano
Peter Stampfel, juke and lead vocals

Recorded October 2023 at Altamira
New Orleans, Louisiana

Vintage Jingles
Mark Bingham, guitar and vocals
Michael Cerveris, vocals
Steve Espanola, piano
Carly Goodspeed, vocals
Jo Morris, vocals
Lily Stampfel, vocals
Zoe Stampfel, vocals
Peter Stampfel, juke and lead vocals
Stig Wegge, vocals
Recorded 2018 at Lorenzo Wolfe’s Restoration
Sound studio, Brooklyn, New York

All music produced, recorded and mixed by Mark Bingham

Collages courtesy of the estate of Claude Pélieu,
permissions provided by Pamela Beach Plymell and
Jeffrey Beach.

Claude Pélieu was a poet, scholar and
artist, born near Paris in 1934, who was led to San
Francisco in 1963 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti to translate
the work of “the Beats” from English to French, and
then found “home” in upstate New York, in and around
Cooperstown, in the 1980s. Claude died in 2002, leaving
behind a collection of work adored by Allen Ginsberg,
William Burroughs and other like-minded writers and
artists. His collages took on many forms, including
those seen here, which are images cut-up from books
and magazines, glued to art paper, combined in an
angular style to create the experience of a conversation,
a narrative in motion. Claude never gave his compositions in this particular style individual titles, but poet Charles Plymell calls them “Shards”.

For more information on Claude and his work,email: Pamela at cveditions@gmail.com.

Portrait of Roman Emperor/Stoic Philosopher Marcus
Aurelius, art of the Antonine period (138 to 193 CE).
Discovered in 1674, in Acqua Traversa, near Rome,
restored 2006. Part of the Borghese Collection, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

Image in the Public Domain. © Marie-Lan Nguyen /
Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5.
Covers and booklet design by John Hubbard | emks.fi
Text edited by Benito Vila

All Soul Jingles and Stoic Jingles, and the Four
New Songs © 2024 Peter Stampfel, Stampfelocity
Songs, ASCAP, except “You Fight for Your Life”.

Song Shards by Peter Stampfel
Jalopy Records
JR029

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