Fred Eaglesmith & The Countryside of Harmonica Sam
Schedule
Sun, 24 Aug, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Parkgatan 5, Löderup, Sweden | Hammenhög, SN
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En helsöndag på Solhällan!!
Det är med omåttlig stolthet vi presenterar den kanadensiske sångaren och låtskrivaren Fred Eaglesmith.
Eaglesmith skivdebuterade redan 1980 och sedan dess har han gett ut ett tjugotal album som sammantaget utgör en mäkta imponerande låtskatt. Han är en egensinnig och alldeles briljant låtskrivare, vars låtar inte riktigt liknar någon annans. Han kan vara bitsk och samtidigt ömsint, cynisk och kärleksfull, arg och humoristisk.
Eaglesmiths skivproduktion i kombination med hans flitiga turnerande har gett honom en stor och entusiastisk skara följare som går under det namnet Fredheads.
Vi är övertygade om att antalet Fredheads kommer att öka en hel del när Fred Eaglesmith, tillsammans med hustrun och medmusikern Tif Ginn, nu äntligen kommer till Skandinavien
The Country Side of Harmonica Sam represents a rare and unique
branch of contemporary country music. This is country music like it
sounded in the late 50s and early 60s; more modern sounding than the
40s Hillbilly style sometimes seen on the rockabilly scene around
Europe. At the same time, it’s far from the contemporary Nashville
sound of country music. With steady 4/4 shuffles, steel guitar, and tic
tac bass, the band performs their own original songs right alongside
classics from Faron Young, Skeets McDonald, Bill Phillips, Billy Walker,
and Ray Price–to name a few.
The band consists of Peter Andersson (pedal steel), Ulrik Jansson
(upright bass), Patrik Malmros (drums– August 2023), Robert Skoglund
(drums August 2023–), Johan Bandling Melin (lead guitar/harmony
vocals) and Harmonica Sam (lead vocals/ rhythm guitar). With origins in
the blues scene in the mid-90s, Harmonica Sam soon took an interest
in 50s rock and country music. His debut album under his own name,
"Rocker #1," released on Enviken Records in 2008, featured piano
rocker Boppin’ Steve and The Domestic Bumblebees. In 2009, during a
show, Sam crossed paths with pedal steel player Peter Andersson,
who had a longstanding history of playing western swing and country
music with Ulrik Jansson and Patrik Malmros. Johan Bandling Melin, a
talented songwriter from the bluegrass scene, also joined, and they all
teamed up to form The Country Side of Harmonica Sam.
In 2013 the band released a 7” single, "Changing Her Thinking," which
created a buzz among country music and rockabilly fans. In 2015 the
band went to Berlin and Lightning Recorders to record their debut
album "Open Letter to the Blues." For their second album, "A Drink
After Midnight," they chose to record at the local Gula Studion in
Malmö, Sweden. The release of the first single from "A Drink After
Midnight" in 2016, became a major dance floor hit on the retro scene
across Europe with the B-side "Lookout Heart." Their third album
"Broken Bottle, Broken Heart" debuted in 2019, featuring the single
"My First Broken Heart (Since My Last Broken Heart)/If That’s the Way
It’s Gotta Be." The single "Tell Her/This Train" was released on
September 1, 2023, and the full album "Back to the Blue Side" on
September 29, 2023.
The Country Side of Harmonica Sam achieved notable recognition by
winning the "Honky Tonk Group" category at the Ameripolitan Music
Awards 2020 in Memphis, Tennessee
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Where is it happening?
Parkgatan 5, Löderup, Sweden, Parkgatan 5, SE-271 76 Löderup, Sverige, Hammenhög, SwedenEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
