Ulf M Andersson belongs to a highly underrated category of artists in Scandinavian popular music. We’re talking about the Singer. Someone who deliberately picks existing songs instead of writing new ones. And performs them with so much love and care that he makes them his own.
- After forty years as a musician, singing in different bands, I thought it was about time for me to make my very own album, says Ulf M Andersson.
- If you’re looking for any particular musical profile or style – forget it. This is an album with a touch of country, but it also includes a bit of rock ‘n’ roll and even a little taste of blues. The twelve tracks on the album are simply songs that I like to sing. Nothing more, nothing less.
”It’s About Time” is the first solo album by Ulf M Andersson. To help him out in the studio he had his ” Wild Bunch”. Olle Westerlund played pedal steel, Fredrik Savbrandt drums, Jörgen Wernefeldt, bass and Tomas Pettersson keyboards. Margareta Nilsson joined in for a duet (the lovely ”With You”), and last but not least the brilliant Berno Paulsson who played guitar and engineered the album.
The songs are all personal favorites of Ulf M Andersson. Three of them borrowed from the almighty Delbert McClinton, two by Charlie Rich and three by Karen Staley, a reliable source of country hits. The wonderful ”Circus Leaving Leaving Town”, written by Phillip Claypool, was found on a Travis Tritt album. Each song has its own story, but the main reason to include each one of them on this album is that Ulf M Andersson just loves to sing them .
Andersson started out as a drummer and vocalist in the sixties in the popular Swedish band the Gonks. In more recent times he’s been fronting his band the Rock ’n’ Roll Torpedoes. That was founded in 1997 and have released four albums (all deleted by now) and played hundreds of shows.
Hej min gode vän Ulf! Tack för adden och såklart ska du vara min TOPFRIEND från och med nu. Kul att vara först med en comment!! Ha det bäst take care så hörs vi i vanlig ordning. Steve, och Mattias hälsar såklart!
