Scoring Dope for the Ultimate Woman took various forms over many years, recording some 60-plus songs and playing a handful of still-legendary shows in the Atlanta area (plus one bizarre trip to New Orleans). The band's creative force was, without a doubt, Tony Stewart - one of the most prolific and fragile talents ever to pick up a guitar. Tony gathered a loose-knit group of musicians to craft songs that spoke of his personal demons as well as universal themes of love, regret, longing, rage, pain, and so on - all that stuff that makes us human. The sound was somewhere between the Rolling Stones and Sonic Youth, fronted by the bastard son of Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

The band put out one record, Braggin', in 1997.

Promo image c. 1996. From left: Diamond Lil, Griff Helwig, Tony Stewart, Remi Stewart, Mitchell Sosebee, Ryan Taylor,
and Shannon "Woody" Woodcock.

Click below to dig the sound:

• Sky Downtown
• Bullet on a Spring
• Mr. Not-So-Wonderful
• Liquid Jail
• Ten Sheets
• Falling
• Casualty
• Home
• Thirteen Months of Bad Luck

All songs recorded at Exocet Sound, Atlanta
Produced by Tony Stewart and Bruce Bennett

 

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