Good Stuff  CD's

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’s  and 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 old  timey jazz with hints of soul, gospel, which makes for the very personal and somewhat unusual style..

Review from the Norwegian magazine Blues News:

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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.."

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You Can Take A Listen here!!

    -- I woke up this morning -   Recorded LIVE at the Nidaros Blues Festival, Norway 2005..

     - Can't get that stuff nomore -  With Mattias Olofsson on Cajon and percussion. 

      - Goin' down jammin' -  With Mattias Olofsson on Cajon and percussion. 

      - The Germany-Jam -   From the tour in Germany, January 2006.. NEW!!

    - Come on into my kitchen -  Live at Café Liljan, Åmål.. 

    - Let me be your litttle dog - 

     - How long blues -    

    - Where the green grass grows -    

   - Water under the bridge -                                            

    - Don't let nobody drag your spirit down -  

    - Crossroads blues -   

    - Spirit in the blues - 

    - Roll me darlin' -     

    - I can't hold out -  

- A review from a tour in Germany, January 2006 -

A Swede has the blues..

"..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!!!!!

(c) BJ Productions Ltd 2006