Einar Stenseng

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Ready for Your Love

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Released: Jan 1, 2010

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Ready for Your Love
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The Shepherd
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Constance
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The Shame Song
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The Primal Call
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Genre: Folk Rock / Rock / Western Swing
Location Berlin, NO
Profile Views: 74286
Last Login: 10/1/2011
Member Since 12/20/2005
Website http://www.einarstenseng.com/
Record Label ..Big Dipper..
Type of Label Indie
Bio
..........Buy ..Stenseng II.. from ....Platekompaniet...., ....CDON.com...., ....Play.com...., the ....iTunes store.... or ....Amazon..... ........ ................"In a highly expressive way Stenseng - in both voice and ambience - swoops by rugged masters such as Lou Reed, Warren Zevon, Nick Cave and especially Townes Van Zandt, an inspiration that is brought to the max on the album's last and best track, 'Careless Love'.".. Stein Østbø, VG, Oslo. ...."The atmosphere is dark, desolate, shameful, desperate and bleak, but also inspired and riveting. [...] The music digs into your nervous system and possesses its own bleak beauty.".. Stein Andersen, Aftenposten, Oslo. ...."This drive is what makes this record so good, whether it's the Tom Waits-like 'The Librarian', the hard-hitting 'The Primal Call' or the catchy 'It's Been a Bad Year', which almost could have come straight out of The Waterboys' big music period.".. Torstein Davidsen, Romerikes blad, Lillestrøm..... .... ......"Stenseng writes really good songs, and in this musical landscape that's a more important factor than anything else. He also has a strong signature to his vocals; that almost dragging and explosivily credible voice that gives his songs buckets of character.".. Egon Holstad, Nordlys, Tromsø. ...."Einar Stenseng's second album is without weak spots. [...] The lyrics are intelligent, lively and brutally honest considerations from life's observation post. [...] We can plaster Einar Stenseng with compliments. That's how good he is. And his four-piece band. And Stenseng II.".. Johnny Andreassen, ABC Nyheter, Oslo. ...."'Bed of Nails' has what it takes to become a future classic - straight lines like Chris Isaak, raw vocals like Tom Waits and the cocky attitude of Johnny Cash.".. Farojournalen, Oslo......... ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. ........Buy my debut album from ....CDON.com.... or the ....iTunes Store....... .......... .......... .... ......"Behind the name Einar Stenseng hides a rock capacity of surprising dimensions, and his debut album has hints of greatness in the tradition of e.g. John Cale and Nikki Sudden.".. Mode Steinkjer, Dagsavisen, Oslo. ...."He's sitting down there in the German capitol, seemingly singing mostly about drinking and women, but he presents it in such well-composed and dirty-beautiful guises, both lyrically and musically, that he comes across as a kind of Norwegian Nick Cave or Lou Reed.".. Stein Østbø, VG, Oslo. ...."I haven't heard such a great songwriter talent in many years, and then specially considering the album's more melancholic tracks, that really creep under your skin and leave you rather schocked.".. Egon Holstad, Nordlys, Tromsø. ...."'Leaving Jerusalem' could have fitted straight in on Dylan's Desire. (...) Stenseng sings and plays like a god. The arrangements are very clever, too.".. Tom Kristensen, Backstage, Oslo..... .... ........See also: ....www.myspace.com/einarstenseng.... and ....www.einarstenseng.com....... ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....
Members
..Einar Stenseng.. (vocals, guitar, piano) ....John C. Barry.. (bass) ....Chris Hughes.. (drums) ....Roger Græsberg.. (guitar) ....Frode Bjørnstad.. (pedal steel guitar, banjo, guitar)
Influences
ABBA, Elias Akselsen, Amon Düül II, Eric Andersen, The Apple Falls, Louis Armstrong, Art Zoyd, Kevin Ayers, The Band, Bobby Bare, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, Chris Bell, Chuck Berry, Big Star, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Birthday Party, Black Sabbath, Dock Boggs, David Bowie, The Boys, Anne Briggs, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Cabaret Voltaire, John Cale, Glen Campbell, Can, Captain Beefheart, James Carr, The Carter Family, Martin Carthy, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gene Clark, Cluster, Eddie Cochran, Cockney Rebel, David Allan Coe, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Shirley Collins, Ry Cooder, Le Corbeau, The Cramps, Crime and the City Solution, Karen Dalton, Miles Davis, deLillos, Sandy Denny, The Dillards, The Dixie Chicks, Nick Drake, The Dubliners, Bob Dylan, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, Roky Erickson, Bill Evans, The Everly Brothers, The Faces, Fairport Convention, Bill Fay, Archie Fisher, Flatt and Scruggs, Jackson C. Frank, Free, Kinky Friedman, Lefty Frizzell, Funkadelic, Serge Gainsbourg, Dick Gaughan, Gary Glitter, The Go-Betweens, Davy Graham, The Grateful Dead, The Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Peter Hammill, Hanoi Rocks, Tim Hardin, Harmonia, Roy Harper, Emmylou Harris, Die Haut, Lee Hazlewood, Hellbillies, Robyn Hitchcock, Roscoe Holcomb, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Hoola Bandoola Band, Mary Hopkin, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Ian & Sylvia, The Incredible String Band, Andy Irvine, The Jacobites, Bert Jansch, Blind Willie Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, George Jones, Nic Jones, Dolores Keane, Johnny Kidd, Carole King, The Kinks, Roland Kirk, Kris Kristofferson, Fela Kuti, Ronnie Lane, Leadbelly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Bert Lloyd, The Louvin Brothers, Magazine, John Martyn, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Maria McKee, Blind Willie McTell, Ralph McTell, Memphis Minnie, Joni Mitchell, The Modern Lovers, Bill Monroe, Van Morrison, Mott the Hoople, Fred Neil, Neu!, The New York Dolls, Mickey Newbury, Randy Newman, Nico, Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, Roy Orbison, Osibisa, Gram Parsons, Charley Patton, Ole Paus, The Pentangle, Webb Pierce, The Pogues, Iggy Pop, Elvis Presley, John Prine, Raga Rockers, Leiv Reed, Lou Reed, John Renbourn, Johnny Rivers, Jimmie Rodgers, The Rolling Stones, Tim Rose, Roxy Music, Tom Rush, Aage Samuelsen, Slade, P.F. Sloan, Sly and the Family Stone, Hank Snow, The Soft Boys, Epic Soundtracks, Bruce Springsteen, The Stanley Brothers, Steeleye Span, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, The Stooges, The Strawbs, Nikki Sudden, T. Rex, June Tabor, Television, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Johnny Thunders, Big Joe Turner, Tønes, Van der Graaf Generator, Dave Van Ronk, Townes Van Zandt, Alan Vega, The Velvet Underground, Vømmøl Spellmannslag, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Muddy Waters, The Watersons, Jimmy Webb, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams, Robin Williamson, Kelly Willis, O.V. Wright, Robert Wyatt, Neil Young, Nils Økland
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