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 Scotty Bullock & The Stampeders come from the South of Germany and were founded by Scotty Schober, Peter "Gunn" Gansbühler und
Florian "Jokerhead" Seppenhauser at the beginning of 1998. Scotty and Peter had played with a number of other bands during the last 15 years, e.g. the Bruise Boys and the Duetones.
Scotty had also written most of the songs for the first EP and CD of the latter. For Florian it was his first engagement in a Rockabilly band.
After Scotty and Peter had left the Duetones in 1997, they got together with Hank Hays, the
lead guitarist of the Swing Rays, and played as "Chicken Hunch Trio" in the USA. There, they also had a live appearance at a radio show at WFHB radio in Bloomington, Indiana. Afterwards
Scotty joined the Swing Rays and toured the USA with them. They were on stage with well-known US artists such as Ronnie Dawson, Sony Burgess, Junior Brown, Lee Rocker, Wayne Hancock, etc.
After he had returned to Germany, Scotty (lead guitar / lead vocals) founded a new band
together with Peter (drums / vocals) and Florian (double-bass / voacls) called Scotty Bullock & The Stampeders. After a number of very successful live appearances in Southern Germany they began
to plan their first album in autumn 1998. In spring 1999, Scotty and the Stampeders went to the studio to record the songs for this long player. The songs that resulted from this recording session
were released on Cherokee Records on a CD and a 10" LP under the title "Dusty Roads" in June 1999.
 Most of the songs on this CD had been self-penned by the band and Scotty, who is not only a fanatical but also brilliant song writer. Their music is
definitely influenced by the wild and often "obscure" 50s rockers, the style of which is also referred to as "Desperate Rock'n'Roll", and dominated by Scotty's wild guitar. However, their
repertoire ranges from Hillbilly-style tunes such as "Wilted Rose" to fast Rockabilly songs like " '49 Mercury".
A short time after their debut CD had been released, unfortunately Scotty Bullock & The
Stampeders dissolved, as Scotty wanted to quit playing music completely due to personal reasons. And although the band had never been on stage again after the CD release, the album
turned out to be a great success. With the Dutch Rock'n'Roll magazine "Boppin' Around" "Rockin' & Ramblin' ", which was written by Scotty, reached the first place in the internal magazine Top
Five list, and the album "Dusty Roads" made it to the third place of the album Top Five of 1999.
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