Click Here for Sound Samples!Debut Album for Swedish Blues Artist! Featuring 14 Mississippi-Blues Inspired Songs! Includes Covers of Tom Waits, Robert Johnson & Whitesnake!
Featuring the debut album of Swedish Blues Artist: Bottleneck John on Opus 3 Records. Containing 14 Mississippi-blues inspired songs including covers of such well-known songs as "Jesus gonna be here" by Tom Waits, "Come on in my kitchen" by Robert Johnson and "No matter how she done it" by Hudson Whittaker. Also includes a usual cover of "Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues" by well-known rock-roll band Whitesnake.
Bottleneck John has already received world-wide praise for his live performances and previous recordings: "The Van Gogh of European bluesmen" - Blues Matters Magazine, UK and "..It's as if Son House's voice has come alive again.. Deeply moving.." -Don Hooper, Unplugged Records, USA. Talented musicians Stefan Swén on Harmonica, Mattias Nordqvist on Piano, Lars Åstrand on Mandolin, and Karl Eneland on Tuba accompany Bottleneck John on Voice, guitar & kazoo on this special album. A True Blue's Album Speculator released on Sony's Stereo SACD format this album has outstanding Sound Quality!
"Back in the summer of 1999 I first heard Eric BibbÂ’s album 'Spirit & The Blues', released on Opus 3 Records, and it totally and utterly changed the way I look upon and perform music. Everything I did turned acoustic and IÂ’ve stayed in the acoustic blues realm ever since. IÂ’d been singing the blues for a long time in electric settings and for me something illusive was missing. When I listened and searched back through the years I found my musical home in the old recordings from the late 1920Â’s and early 30Â’s. The heart of my music is the genuine tone of resonator guitars, I just love the mechanically amplified sound. Being a recording artist on the Opus 3 Records label is something IÂ’m extremely happy, thankful and proud about. From the first time Jan-Eric Persson and I met to discuss this album we got along really well. And as we both are profoundly interested in the history of the music and the various instruments that youÂ’ll hear on this record, thereÂ’ll be a lot of info and photoÂ’s showing guitars in this booklet. IÂ’ve been collecting and repairing old instruments for many years and to be able to bring some of them to the studio and let them be heard is a good feeling for me. When I play an old instrument for the first time I use to think about who played it the last time and when was it.. Everytime I discover a vintage instrument it thrills me to find out how much built in 'Mojo' it has. I experience that the years and 'mileage' leave traces from the past in tone and feel." - Bottleneck John
"[W]hen it comes to amazing sounding and performed Acoustic Blues, 'All Around Man', was certainly the best I have heard, so far, for 2013, if not the best I have heard in recent memory... The CD case, was the most unique and well built one I have ever received, a work of art in itself, and a bit of foreshadowing to the care and attention that was put into all aspects of creating the CD that the case so wonderfully protected... 5*****, for sure, for 'All Around Man'. An album I really wished I had a higher rating system for. This is an album that will instantly please lovers of Acoustic Blues. Brilliantly done from beginning to end." - Blues Underground Network
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Musicians:
Bottleneck John, vocals, 6 & 12 string resonator & acoustic guitars, banjo, mandolin, electric guitar, foot stomp, kazoo
Mattias Nordqvist, grand piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer
Kent Ogren, resonator, double bass
Lars Astrand, mandolin, fiddle
Mattias Olofsson, percussion
Stefan Swen, harmonica
Karl Eneland, tuba
Patrik Idell, guitar
 | 1. Lonesome Valley |
| | 2. Come On In My Kitchen |
| | 3. No Matter How She Done It |
| | 4. Autumn Rime |
| | 5. Do You Call That A Buddy? |
| | 6. Jesus Gonna Be Here |
| | 7. Out Of The Rain |
| | 8. All Around Man |
| | 9. Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues |
| | 10. Mandolinferno |
| | 11. How Long, How Long Blues |
| | 12. Only A Woman |
| | 13. You Can't Get That Stuff No More |
| | 14. Wade In The Water |
