Artist description 52 years old - two grown up children - Master of Science in Electronics - love (all good) music that hits me - Like to read a lot (SF mostly these days), painting and to play the blues ... etc

Music Style Country Blues and sometimes electrified blues

Musical Influences Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Snooks Eaglin, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williams II (Rice Miller), Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and lot of others

Similar Artists Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin' Hopkins and Myddy Waters

Artist History I start to listen to blues in the mid sixties because around that time the blues came to Sweden ... I was surounded by people who listen to Jazz and converted to blues. The most important influence came from one of my elder sisters and her friends and a local blues hero called Peps who introduced uss all to the blues ... I bought my first guitar (Aucuctic) when I was 14 (1965) because every boy must be able to play at least "House of the rising Sun" and/or to play some tunes on Harmonica to get a girlfriend ... I practised my guitar-playing during som ten years but never played anything for anybody else because i was surrounded by so many gifted musicians in my opinoion. So I concentrated on other important things without playing anything, until the summer of 1999 when I was on holiday in a small town in southern Sweden with my girlfriend. During the festivities there we listened to a gifted Blues artist called Homesic Mac and where much impressed. After that I decided to give meself another chance as a Blues-Player. I start to practised bought myself an electrical guitar (Fender Stratocaster copy) and two aucustic guitars (One new Ibanez and one vintage Levine from ca 1975). I then heard about a Blues Jam open for everybody at the famous "Stampen" (The Pawnshop) in the old town in Stockholm. I went to Stampen with my guitar for the first time in the autum of 2001. I asked if I could go up and join the musicians for a song or two - the Boss (Brian Kramer) said OK - and so I got up and played for an audience on the bandstand for the first time in my life. I didn't felt I did sound that good but afterwards some people said to me it was OK. S I decided that I should give it another try. End of story is that I have been there many times now (Each Saturday afternoon)and learned me a lot. After a while I have been on stage at some other places - and there is allwasys some people who likes old time blues that says to me that they liked it. So now I feel a little more confident about my talents - and I'm ready to take the chance to go up and play as often as I get the chance. Lately I have written a couple of oldtime blues songs that I have performed in different places - and it seems that people likes it. I havev made a lot of friends on these occations so hopefully I can perform with some of them as a more normal blues group in the future - for instance with somone who play harmonica, base and so on ...

Group Members Just me for the moments - but I hope to get together with some friends to play together in a band ...

Instruments Fender Stratocaster (copy), Ibanez (Aucustic), Levin (Vintage Aucustic), Harmonica

Location Sundbyberg, Sundbyberg - Sweden

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