- SPIRITUALS-BLUES-GOSPEL - I have a programme called "THE SPIRIT & THE BLUES", a concert played on acoustic instruments of a bygone era, the traditional gospel songs from the Delta regions of the southern USA..!! The bluesmen played the blues at Juke-Joints and bars on Saturday night and the next morning the same musicians played the Gospel music in church..!! The lyrics were different but the music almost the same.. I've always loved the other side of the blues and this is my tribute!! Mainly traditional songs but also some of my own tunes as well as soul and blues.. This event is very suitable for churches, where this music form is truly at home, I can also do this concert as a duo or trio, depending on the venue and audience.. One of the reviews here!
-Do you sing in a gospel choir and would like to give a concert with some real genuine gospel..?! With my band Heart & Soul we'll give a concert of old-timey, genuine traditional spiritual songs, and your choir sings with us!! For example: The band starts the event by performing 5-6 songs and then the choir comes on and does, say, 6-8 trad. gospel songs along with us!!! This works well in any church and the audience really enjoys this.. Contact me if You and your choir would be interested in this programme!! And hey! You get a full band along for your concert!! :)
- BLUES AT SCHOOL - I have been asked many times by music schools if I could come and have a day of blues for the students! Play a little, show videos of the old masters, have lessons about the origins, history, different styles and so on.. So now I can offer an event, called "Blues at School" which both includes me playing the blues and spiritual songs from the southern US, the place where it all began.. And also discussions and lessons about the blues, different styles, legendary players, in short, the history, behind a music form that is the origin of most modern pop and rock music.. Classes in Bottleneck(slide) guitar playing technique, Vocal styles of the blues etc.. The event is finished off with me playing a concert, solo or with one of my bands.. Call or eMail me for more info!
- A HOUSE CONCERT - House concerts can play an important role in the touring artist's life. There are times when the artist's travel plans take them through an area with lots of friends and fans, but not on a Friday or Saturday when most venues present music. And there are some groups of people who would like to hear the artist away from the clatter of a crowded, noisy pub or a festival environment. The house concert is a great answer to all of these situations. Read more here about your very own BJ concert!!
-My bands! And now, here you can read about some of my different bands and duo's..!! Video clips here!!
Bottleneck John CD's VIDEO's Läs en intervju här, på svenska(Jefferson).. A house concert..??!
-My alter ego! The lone blues singer, sometimes I play the blues on my own as Bottleneck John! Mostly old-timey 1920's and 30's unpolished, raw Delta & Country blues stuff.. Spirituals, of course, are also an essential part of my repertoire!! What better way to get your audience in the mood than with a set of laid back stuff from the Delta? I play my resonator guitars, a Tricone and Singlecone, my beloved tin-cans, in open G and D tuning and have one foot pounding out the rhythm on the floorboards... Some stuff in regular as well.. Classic tunes from Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Bukka White etc.. As well as my own songs in the genre..!! From time to time some friends join in on Harmonica, Double Bass, Piano, Drums etc. A full acoustic Delta Blues Band!! BJ goes Mississippi Delta!! See some USA pics!!
-Bottleneck John's Delta Trio: With my good friends Stefan Swén on harmonica and Lars Åstrand on fiddle & mandolin I have the delta trio!!! Click HERE for more info on the trio!!
-Ibland spelar jag på mina kära plåtburkar helt allena som Bottleneck John!! Oftast i öppen G & D stämning med min Tricone och Singlecone. Vissa spelningar blir det som BJ Duo, Trio eller hela Bottleneck John Band!! Riktigt gammal Deltablues samt Spirituals står på programmet!! And remember folks, the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad..
En ny intervju på svenska här, från Blueswebben.se! 2007
Read an interview in English here!
BJ & The Hound Dogs *New act*
My new act is a fun project! Here it'll be just two electric guitars, harmonica and drums! We'll offer the dirty swingin' gritty groove of Hound Dog Taylor, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf and their likes to name some influences! Down home blues for sure!! Be prepared to jump, laugh and boogie... With a heavily distorted, highly amplified electric sound that swaps the standard time-keeping of a bassist for the more propulsive chug of a rhythm guitar player, we'll bring the grimy juke-joint boogie back to the fore. Influenced by Elmore James' loud and hard slide-guitar attack in a whole bunch of good-time dance-floor burners..
Johan Eliasson's Heart & Soul Photo's
-Mitt nya eminenta band! Detta är det mest flexibla bandet jag lirat med, vi kommer att spela Blues, Spirituals och Soul.. Svänger fett och det är mkt kompetenta musiker jag har med mig här! Vårt program med Spiritual Blues för kyrkor är en succé..!! Läs recensioner om detta på REVIEWS sidan.. Kul och inspirerande!! Ibland är låtarna lugna och eftertänksamma, ibland rockar vi desto hårdare, allt beroende på publik och tillfälle!! Along with my band Heart & Soul I have a programme called "THE SPIRIT IN THE BLUES", a concert played on acoustic instruments of a bygone era, the traditional gospel songs from the Delta regions of the southern USA..!!
-Ett elektroakustiskt(!) band som blandar blues, soul och gospel.. Med en akustisk feeling, men elektriska instrument kan finnas med i ljudbilden. Inspelning av en CD står på programmet, vi har redan gjort TV-debut inför nästan miljonen människor i SVT. Hur bra som helst med andra ord!! An "electro-acoustic" band that blends blues, soul and gospel. An acoustic feel but with some electric instruments now and then.. We've made our TV debut in front of nearly one million people in Swedish National Television..!! Awesome!! One of the reviews here! The Heart & Soul band line-up is mostly something like this: Vocals-Slide Guitar-Guitar-Piano-Hammond Organ-Double bass-Drums-Backing Vocals
Good Stuff Genuine Barrel House Blues!! Info CD's House Concert..??!
-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-slidegitarr samt Mattias Nordqvist vid pianot! Ibland har vi med oss några goda vänner på kontrabas, munspel och trummor! Läs en intervju här på svenska(Jefferson)
-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!!
Johan Eliasson - Singer/Songwriter CD's
-Mitt så kallade "solo-projekt", att äntligen ta itu med alla de låtar jag skrivit sedan 1999, arrangera, spela in och slutligen framföra mina låtar live inför publik! Jag har gjort detta nu och detta har fått ett överväldigande bra mottagande, vilket gläder mig något oerhört, jag menar, dessa låtar har legat glömda i högar med papper i flera år, jag visste inte riktigt vad jag skulle göra med dem! Eller när, hur!! Men nu är det igång, en CD med 12 st låtar är klar och väntar bara på att släppas!!! Jag bjöd in en rad goda vänner som hjälpte mig att klä dessa nakna musikstycken i vackra kläder.. Ett stort TACK till alla!! The Singer/Songwriter side of me!!! These tunes don't quite fit in the blues genre. Still, they have to be written, I just sit there with my guitar and words and music just comes to me. Please have a listen!!
The MudCats
Info
CD's
-Tar dig
tillbaka till Chicagos stökiga bluesklubbar!! Blandar gamla bluesklassiker i egen
tappning med eget orginalmaterial skrivet av JE. På låtlistan finns det låtar av t.ex
Howlin´ Wolf, Muddy Waters, BB King m.fl.. One
of my electric acts, these cat's really swing!!
The Piano
Duo Jazz,
Blues, Pop och Gospel.
-Mattias
Nordqvist och Johan Eliasson bjuder dig på en blandning av det mesta i musikväg! Jazz,
Blues, Pop och Gospel. Till Fest, Bröllop, Begravning etc.. With just piano and vocals we offer a most
versatile program to fit in any event.. Soul, Jazz, Blues, Gospel,
Pop..
The
Hot Tamales
-The Hot Tamales är en akustisk bluesduo från Östersund bestående av
Johan Eliasson och Ulf Wahlström, bandnamnet har lånats från Robert Johnson´s
låt ”They´re red hot” och ger en fingervisning om vilken
musik det är som gäller.
Fat Time Blues
-Spelar en
jazzbaserad blues med mycket eget material skrivet av Johan Eliasson och Mattias
Nordqvist. Låtarna under "LYSSNA" är egna alster.
Johan Eliasson, Sång
Mattias Nordqvist, Piano och Hammondorgel
Kenn Bäckström,
Gitarr
Lars Ericsson, Kontrabas
Dan West, Trummor
Swedish northern summer nights.. The sun never sets..!!
Check out some new VIDEO clips here!!!
En ny intervju på svenska här, från Blueswebben.se! 2007
Below, a very nice review!! Thanks!!!
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..I think Im going to burn my guitar and never sing again.The moment this guy starts singing......you KNOW you are listening to an ancient, weathered black man from the southern US, who has endured all the hardships that life could possibly offer. The toils, trouble and inhumanities have burned an imprint into a hardened soul. Great. Then you check out his page and find out that hes a thirty something as white as you can get guy from Sweden.
This music is nothing short of incredible for the genre. Either this gentleman has been possessed by the spirit of a roaming Delta Jook-Joint long dead madman, or hes just plain genius.
Im pretty sure its the latter.
The depth of soul in this man's voice is at the least stirring, and at the most.....entirely captivating. To top it all off......his traditional bottleneck accompaniment on vintage pre-war resonator tricones and duolians are so perfect for the genre that if we added some phono hissing and record scratches......we wouldn't know that we weren't listening to a lost blues legend. I don't say any of this lightly.
Wow.
If you like the Blues, and particularly the Delta (country) Blues, I can almost guarantee that you will hang on to this guy's MP3's.
Absolutely amazing, John. Amazing.
. "Frank the wonder budgie Reviews
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