Jody Stephens
Biography
Jody Stephens (born October 4, 1952) is an American musician and producer who has played drums in Big Star (with Alex Chilton of the Box Tops) and Golden Smog (with members of the Jayhawks, and Wilco). After the deaths of Chris Bell in 1978, and Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel, both in 2010, Stephens is the last surviving original member of Big Star. Stephens also performs and records with Luther Russell as Those Pretty Wrongs. Their debut 7" was released in 2015 on Burger Records and their debut LP came out in 2016 on the Ardent Music label. Stephens contributed drums to "The Student Becomes the Teacher", a 2018 song by The Lemon Twigs, who have cited Big Star as being an influence. In 2019 Stephens produced the LP Electric Power for rock/power soul band the Reputations from Austin, Texas.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

#1 Record
1972

Gentlemen
1993

Radio City
1974

3rd
1978

#1 Record / Radio City
1978

Altered Beast
1993

The Best Of Big Star
2017

Dead Man's Pop
2019

I Am The Cosmos
1992

All A Man Should Do
2015

Weird Tales
1998

Columbia (Live At Missouri University 4/25/93)
1993

Complete Third
2016

Velvet Elvis
1988

Thank You, Friends: Big Star's Third Live...And More
2017
Credited work
381 releases · 59 albums · active 1972–2026
- Performance · 884
- Other credits · 80
- Production · 29
Studios: Ardent Studios · Ultrasuede Studio · Fantasy Studios · The Village Recorder
Frequent collaborators
- Big Star
- Those Pretty Wrongs
- Various
- Matthew Sweet
- Golden Smog
- Van Duren
- The Orange Humble Band
- Truck Stop Love
