Med Piano och Slidegitarr spelar
Good Stuff stökig juke-joint blues i den gamla skolan! En och annan
spiritual finns också på repertoaren. En duosättning som t.ex. Leroy
Carr & Scrapper Blackwell gjorde klassisk på 1930-talet eller som
Henry Butler & Corey Harris har gjort de senaste åren. Good
Stuff består av Johan Eliasson, sång och Resonator-bottleneck-gitarr
samt Mattias Nordqvist vid pianot! Ibland har vi med oss några goda vänner
på kontrabas och trummor!!
Nidaros Bluesfestival
2005
With
Piano and Slideguitar Good Stuff offers unpolished Down Home, Juke-Joint
blues from the old days!!Of course spirituals are a part of the repertoire!!
A classic blues formation that for example Leroy
Carr & Scrapper Blackwell played in the 1930’sand Henry Butler & Corey
Harris been doing the last couple of years..!!Good
Stuff
is Johan Eliasson on Vocals, slideguitar & Mattias Nordqvist at the
piano. Sometimes we also have Double Bass and Drums along!!!This
is a very nice act, we play a lot of genres: Delta & Country blues,
even oldtimey jazz with hints of soul, gospel, which makes for the very
personal and somewhat unusual style..
Review from the
Norwegian magazine Blues News:
Taken from the artists
presentation at the Nidaros Bluesfestival, Norway, 2005:
Good Stuff
Plantasjen - Royal Garden Hotel.
Fredag 29. april ca. kl. 23.00.
"..En helt framifrå svensk duo som har sine røtter i gammel
akustisk blues, gospel, soul og spirituals. De fremfører musikken
med stor autoritet og man blir fort hensatt til gamle dager under en
konsert med disse gutta. Flere nydelige og sterke låter gir publikum
en helt spesiell opplevelse. Kun det beste fra vårt naboland er godt
nok 100 år etter unionsoppløsningen.."
"..If
you went down to Cafe Pegasus last saturday, you felt like starting out
from the neighbouring aeroplane-repair factory on a long, long trip. Touching
spirituals and raw delta-blues like from New Orleans or Texas filled the
hall.
The guy, who is crying his soul out during his songs and playing the
reso-guitar like the old masters, isn´t from the southern states of
America but from the north of Europe.
The
Swedish Johan Eliasson, from a little town named Östersund shows –
something only possible in music – that you don’t have to be a
coloured person or even be in the USA to have the blues and to play it
authentically.
The hobby-promoter and organizer Rudolf Spindler was told about this man,
nick-named Bottleneck John, through a reference and became so enthusiastic,
that he decided to set up a small club-tour through Bavaria for him. Like
in Abensberg, Landshut and other places the numerous audience in the
Pegasus can be happy about a discovery!
The
tall of stature, mid-thirty Eliasson is a real specialist in his music.
The learnings that he made in Sweden, is no different to the way of the
North-American musicians.
As a child Eliasson began to sing, at first Bellmann and other sensitive
Swedish classicals. Soon you found him in gospel-choirs and there he
picked up his preference and destiny. Later he also started playing in
some R&B-bands, and now his heart always beats for the acoustic guitar
blues.
The
passionate collector (vintage and reso-guitars) not only shows
considerable abilities by playing bottleneck on his, for slide-tone tuned,
Amistar´s, but also a huge voice.
This voice has an enormous volume and rich expressiveness not only for
ambitious spirituals like “I woke up this Morning” or “Sweet Chariot”
but also by fast songs like “Talk to me baby” or an expressional
version of Ray Charles “Georgia on my mind”.
With his fellow Swede, Mattias Nordqvist at the piano, Eliasson has by his
side an equal musician in the band, he always gives him enough room to
play some solos and syncompated escapades. The same goes for two other
guys in the quartet. This
is a praise for the young drummer Stefan Ebn, and only natural for the
bass-veteran Gary Todd who has played with Don Ellis and numerous of
jazzbands.
Four
authentic musicians, by which classics like Robert Johnsons
“Crossroads” come fast and relaxed at the same time and the groove is
still going on til the end. Soon Eliasson goes on his his first US-tour,
and then some people will be surprised, because this Swede lets some more
established blueser’s look “very old”.."
Translation
by Christian Prechtl - Thank you, bro!!!!!
