Stryker Brothers

In each telling and re-telling of any story, from person to person and generation to generation, modifications are inevitable. Forgotten details may be replaced with imagined ones. Timelines and locations are often shifted for the sake of familiarity. Yet the narrative of myth always retains one consistent aspect - maybe a character or moral. In the narrative of the Stryker Brothers, our constant is what has been rescued from ashes, resuscitated from a certain death and is now in your hands.

Originally discovered on old tapes (reel to reel tapes), the music you are about to listen to surely was created with the intention of being shared. One can only assume that the songs here, carefully restored and remastered, were written based on real experiences and real lives the Stryker Brothers either lived or witnessed. Yet there is no proof to date of that, as there is no real proof of Coal or Flynt Stryker. The brothers’ lore is robust in certain circles yet no documents, no photos, no records of the two have surfaced to date. The only constant in their narrative is the songs.

There are no thank you’s to extend on behalf of the band. There are no credits, no lyrics, no label copy. There are no stories gleaned from wisdom. There are no photos, no messages of either hope or despair and there are no morals to impart regarding the rollercoaster of curating a work of art.

There is no message here. Only music.