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English version below ***** Tack för supporten under 2017!
Ja, ett år har avslutats och ett nytt har precis börjat.
Jag vill tacka alla som supportat under det gångna året och som gör det möjligt att fortsätta sprida "vår" musik. Det ger kraft att fortsätta kriga!
Utrymmet i media o dylikt är i princip noll så det känns viktigare än någonsin att kunna fortsätta se till att band och artister kan komma ut med sin musik.
Tack och lov finns det en hel del mindre magazine och radio stationer, både traditionella och online som envetet kör på. Många helt ideelt. Dom är guld värda!
Det är en hel del på gång inför 2018 och jag tänkte nu presentera årets första platta och som vanligt får ni här på listan möjlighet att förhandsbeställa till ett bra pris!
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| | Chris Ruest en riktig Bluesman från Austin - Texas.
Den 26:e januari släpper vi Chris Ruests album "Been Gone Too Long". Ett album med 13 riktiga "Blues Blasters"! |
| | Chris är en grym gitarrist, han var god vän med Nick Curran och de delade även lägenhet ett tag, Curran medverkade också på Chris tidigare skivor och de sporrade varandra i deras musikaliska utveckling.
Chris Ruest har spelat med många stora Texas musiker och det känns som att han är konstant på turné (Just nu är han i Frankrike.).
Marti Brom session.
Det var i samband med en session för Marti Broms kommande skiva som Chris kom hit till studion första gången och det gav mersmak för oss båda. Han gillade studion och musikerna han hörde och jag gillade hans vibb och ton så det dröjde inte länge innan jag frågade om han ville spela in en platta här, vilket han sa ja till omgående!
Chris
har som sagt spelat med och känner många musiker och på denna skiva gästas han av bla.
Gene Taylor, Billy Bremner, Knock-Out Greg, Marti Brom, John Lindberg och Wes Race.
Det har verkligen blivit en mix av musiker från Sverige och USA på denna platta.
Blues rockar också!
Jag översätter här nedan lite av det som Tom Hyslop skrivit om skivan, ta dig gärna tid och läsa hela hans text längre ner på den engelska delen. Tom skriver för ansedda amerikanska tidningen Blues Music Magazine.
" “Been
Gone Too Long” visar återigen Chris Ruests känsla för att göra enastående Blues
album: Gitarr spel som går ifrån det frenetiska till mer sofistikierat, ärlig
sång och klockrent samspel med sina musiker som ger skivan kraft, finess och väl
avstämd dynamik.
Blues
traditionen då, nu och framtida är I goda händer hos Chris Ruest." Vi
får ett par covers – Guitar Slims “Sufferin’ Mind” här I en mer intensiv Elmore
James tappning samt Arthur Alexanders tidlösa “The Girl That Radiates That
Charm”, resterande 11 låtar är Chris Ruest original där vi får allt ifrån
Swing, Bo Diddley beat, Howlin Wolf stomp och tidiga BB King vibbar dyker på
något sätt upp där också.
Blues kanske inte är just din grej men jag tycker att du iaf ska kolla in album trailern, för det här Rockar också på sitt sätt!
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The deal.
Som vanligt får ni här på listan möjlighet att köpa ett ex till bra pris och dessutom fraktfritt!
Allt du betalar är 99 Svenska riksdaler, då kommer den i din brevlåda på releasedagen, det är väl inte så illa!?
Ange rabattkoden: 17599 när du kommer till kassan i webshopen.
- Erbjudandet gäller till och med 25e januari. -
( P.S Har du inte köpt Lily Locksmiths singel ännu så är det läge innan de tar slut, det finns bara ett fåtal ex kvar nu. )
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denna gång. 10-4, over
& out. // Patrik Staffansson |
| | Thanks for your support during 2017!
A year has just ended and a new has just begun.
I wish to thank all of you who have supported Enviken Records this past year. You make it possible to continue too spread the word about "our" music. I gives me energy too continue the war so too speak!
And thanks too all those specialized magazines and radio stations that keep on writing the words and talking the talk. It means a ton to us.
We got quite a few things cooking here for 2018 and it's already time to present the first release of the year, and as usual all you members here on the list gets a special offer, continue reading :)
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| | Chris Ruest a true Bluesman from Austin - Texas.
Chris Ruest's album "Been Gone Too Long" will be released on January 26. An album Jam-packed with 13 Rockin' Blues Blasters! |
| | Chris is an awsome guitarist and the first time he came here to the studio was for a Marti Brom session and he liked the musicians and the studio and I totaly dug his vibe and tone so I asked pretty much right away if he'd be interested in cutting a record here in Enviken.
He has played with alot of great Texas musicians and he is constantly on the road. Right now he is in Europe touring France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Check his tour schedule HERE If you have the chance, go see him!
On this album we have guest musicians like Gene Taylor, Billy Bremner, Knock-Out Greg, Marti Brom, John Lindberg och Wes Race.
It is really a mixture of Sweden and USA on there.
Rockin' The Blues!
Even though the Blues ain't your thing, I really think you should at least check out the albumtrailer and give it a shot. Cause it is Rockin' in my opinion!
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| | And below you'll find a piece that Tom Hyslop wrote on the album, cool reading and you get a bit more on Chris Ruest story. (Or read here)
The deal.
As usual all you good folks here on the newslist gets the oportunity to purchase it at a good price and no shipping charged!
All you pay is 99 SEK wich is approx 12USD or 10 Euro.
Not too bad huh!?
Use this coupon when at checkout in our webshop: 17599
- Offer is valid up until January 25 -
( P.S If you haven't bought a copy of Lily Locksmith's 7" it is time to do so as there is not many copies left!) |
| | Now read what Tom Hyslop has to say:
In 1999, Chris Ruest moved from the northeastern United
States to Texas, where he soon began working with the top talent in Dallas and
Austin, and cultivated solid connections to Texas blues and rock and roll
history through friendships with Sam Myers and Ray Sharpe. Since 2005, the
Texas-based artist has released three solo CDs, featuring performers including
Hash Brown, Nick Curran, Preston Hubbard, Ronnie James, and Kaz Kazanoff. Those
albums, and his contributions to the all-star group Texas Cannonballs, reveal
one of the strongest, most original voices in contemporary blues and roots
rock. In 2017, Ruest recorded the impressively real and raw blues project It’s Too Late Now, with a trio rounded
out by the storied Gene Taylor on piano and Brian Fahey (The Paladins) on
drums.
Been Gone Too Long
is Chris Ruest’s first truly international project. The new album taps into the
rich network of connections the guitarist-singer-songwriter developed during
his many tours of Europe, where he has played frequently as a headliner, with
the Cannonballs, and as part of a revue paying tribute to the late Gary
Primich. Three years ago, Enviken Records’ owner Patrik Staffansson attended
one of Ruest’s shows in the company of American country-rockabilly songstress
Marti Brom and her Swedish touring band. Ruest remembers that Staffansson
“asked me if I’d be interested in playing on a few Marti Brom tracks” at his
studio. During that session, Staffansson saw potential in
cutting a record with Ruest.
Fast forward to 2017 and another trip to Sweden, when
Staffansson brought Ruest together again with Mattias Hyttsten (drums) and
Peter Fröbom (bass). “They are a great rockabilly backing band, with an almost
Howlin’ Wolf feel. I geared a few songs toward that and just let the guys play
what they felt, and they kicked ass. They are big fans of Nick Curran and my
CDs, so they knew the style and sounds I was looking for.” The fabulous piano
playing belongs to the storied Gene Taylor, a citizen of the world. Among the
other musicians on Been Gone Too Long
is Knock Out Greg, one of Sweden’s premier bandleaders and a touring partner of
Ruest’s from the Primich tribute, on harp. Austrian native Christian Dozzler, a
longtime Texas resident and friend of Ruest’s, plays accordion on the Gulf
Coast-style rocker, “Henhouse To The Doghouse.” If “Henhouse” sounds a bit like
a lost Rockpile tune, it’s because Billy Bremner plays guitar on it. (Ruest met
the Scottish great at the band house maintained by his Swedish promoter.) Marti
Brom, who happened to be in the studio, blows the top off of the Jimmy
Reed-inspired “Get Your Mind Out Of That Gutter,”, John Lindberg one of Swedens
premiere Rockabillies whom is a regular at the Enviken Studio dropped by and
layed down some real cool guitar on ”Nobody Cares” and even a bassline on the aforementioned ”Henhouse” and Wes Race, Fort Worth,
Texas’s preeminent hipster, raps over the funky grind of “Jivetalk.”
Been Gone Too Long extends Ruest’s
winning formula for making outstanding blues records: Guitar playing that
ranges from savage to sophisticated, honest vocals, and a lockstep connection
with the band that gives the set power, finesse, and a fine-tuned dynamic
range. The program offers a couple of fresh covers–Guitar Slim’s “Sufferin’
Mind,” reimagined as an intense Elmore James number, and Arthur Alexander’s
timeless “The Girl That Radiates That Charm”–and a host of incisive original
songs: the swinging “Real Proud Papa”; “Too Cool For School,” with its big, Bo
Diddley beat; the Latin-tinged “Nobody Cares”; the Wolf-like stomp “I’m Going
Home”; the rocking “I Quit”; “Can’t Take No More” and “True Found Baby,” which acknowledge
B.B. King’s early sides; and the slow drag of the title track. The essence of
blues tradition past, present, and future, is in good hands with Chris Ruest. // Tom Hyslop Contributing Editor, Blues Music Magazine |
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All for now. 10-4, over & out. // Patrik
Staffansson |
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