Kenneth Engström - Acoustic guitar/Lead Vocals, Mac Robertson - Acoustic guitar/Vocals, Knut Johansson - Acoustic Bass Guitar, Martin Landgren - Accordeon, Trumpet.
Influences
Blind Blake, Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie McTell and all these, male or female, great blues players, singers and shouters that gave us the greatest music on the planet! The roots to it all!
Sounds Like
A mix of delta blues, ragtime, old time, bluegrass and vaudeville. Thats the rare and real Piedmont Blues!
Please visit the Piedmont Project space on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/piedmontproject
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Piedmont Project is a Swedish acoustic blues band. They play Piedmont blues, also called East Coast blues or Carolina blues, a blues style that developed in the USA east of the Appalachian mountain area in the beginning of the last century. The style is a mix of delta blues, ragtime, old time and vaudeville, seldom heard in Europe. An important “fingerpicking” acoustic guitar keeps the groove and the syncopated rhythm.
The core members are Kenneth Engström, guitar and vocals, Mac Robertson, guitar and vocals and Knut Johansson, bass and Martin Landgren, accordeon. At concerts the group often features their guest musicians Petra Kvist Fiddle and Annsofie Wieland Vocals They are well known musicians in Sweden. The group released their first official and full length album
“Pickin My Tomatoes” in 2007. The guest artists are featured, even former "Grus i Dojjan" fiddler Helge Hansson.
In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and personality of African-American life. The style evolved from "rags," played with banjos, fiddles and percussion. As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues. Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it.
The group started already 1986 as a duo when Kenneth and Mac recorded some ragtime type songs, all penned by Kenneth. Eventually they went into the actual piedmont blues style. And when bass player Knut joined the group it became a solid unit and they have since that day enjoyed great success at a vast number of festivals, pubs and clubs in Sweden. The audience had never heard this kind of happy sounding good-time-blues before. Piedmont Project became sort of messengers of the style in this part of the world.
The years went and the group played numerous gigs before they 2006 recorded their first official album “Pickin.. My Tomatoes.”
The album got astoundingly good reviews everywhere and the group was discovered by blues radio stations all over the world.
For further details about the band; gigs, reviews, photo galleries and CD:s with samples, please visit website www.piedmontproject.se Contact: kenneth@piedmontproject.se
Kenneth plays an old Martin HD 28 and also Australias prize winning brand Maton, model EBG 808, both guitars through a Fender Acoustasonic SFX amp. Macs..main guitars are a Michael Sandén JRBC (swedish master luthier) and a sunburst Bourgeois Advanced Slope D. He also plays a great Martin M-38 and quite often a Santa Cruz 12-fret D. Macs amp is an AER Domino. No effect boxes!
Knut plays a Tanglewood TW 55-A acoustic bass guitar and uses an Ampeg BA 115 bass amplifier.
http://www.youtube.com/user/piedmontproject
Hej! Nu har vi lagt upp vår nya sommarlåt här på MySpace, det är en
blandning av reggae, soul och svensk folkmusik. Lyssna gärna och ha det
riktigt sommarbra!
Hi Piedmont Project We wanna thank you for your very important support in those sad days.
This thanx are in our name, in the name of Enrico's wife Paola and in the name of his sons.
Enrico Micheletti's ashes are flyin' throughout the universe and we hope his soul is finally arrived at a beautiful destination.
What about his music and the music we had recorded toghether?
We finally decide to get it out. We wanna remeber Enrico in this way. In the first quarter of 2009 we will publish all our and Enrico Micheletti' s materials on Itunes and many other stores on the web.
We'll send you a message when it's all ready.
God bless you!!!!
KEEP THE BLUES ALIVEEEE!!!!!!!
Ciao Piedmont Project ti volevamo ringraziare per le tue parole e per il tuo sostegno in periodo così difficile per noi.
Questi ringraziamenti non sono formali, sono veramente sinceri a nome nostro, della moglie di Enrico Paola e a nome dei suoi figli.
Le ceneri di Enrico Micheletti sono disperse nel mar Tirreno e stanno viaggiando nell' universo. Noi speriamo che anche la sua anima abbia raggiunto finalmente il miglior approdo possibile.
Cosa fare del suo materiale in nostro possesso e del materiale che abbiamo registrato insieme?
Dopo aver pensato a lungo sul da farsi abbiamo deciso di pubblicarlo. Lo pubblicheremo su Itunes ed altri siti così tutti potranno trovarlo se lo cercano. Glielo dobbiamo. Glielo deve chi lo ha conosciuto.
Cercheremo di pubblicare tutto ciò che è in nostro possesso nei primi mesi del 2009.
Appena sarà tutto pronto ti faremo sapere.
Dio ti benedica ancora, grazie. Suonate il blues più che potete!!!!!
