Södra Norrlands Coast Country Cowboys - Mellan Nashville och Norrland (Digipak CD)

Facts Last year, Södra Norrlands Coast Country Cowboys broke through with their debut album Ett brustet hjärta, touring and scoring hits with songs like “Tre lass timmer,” “Hjärtat som blöder i en gammal countrysång” and “Farsan dog på bussen till Norrsundet.” The band played a string of cheered gigs across the country and won praise from Rootsy, the leading Swedish voice for the genre. Now they're back with their new album Mellan Nashville och Norrland, a record that places American country tradition square in Swedish everyday life, somewhere between honky-tonk, the E4 highway and Norrland realism.

The album moves musically between classic outlaw country, pop and folk music, with lyrics rooted in Sweden. It tells stories of work, love, hangovers, small towns, lost dreams and that feeling of standing in between, geographically, culturally and mentally.
The tracks include “Det här är country,” “Tio dagar och en hundring kvar till lön,” “När Elvis Presley dog,” “The honkiest tonk i stan,” and of course the title track “Mellan Nashville och Norrland.” These are songs that could just as easily play out at an American truck stop as at a Swedish roadside inn.

Södra Norrlands Coast Country Cowboys have made a name for themselves with their uncompromising love of country music, featuring fiddle, steel and Telecasters. Their storytelling, which can be dirty, funny and sad all at once, has drawn comparisons to Alf Robertson. On the new album Mellan Nashville och Norrland, they deliver Swedish country straight from the gut, with no frills or veneer. The songs are stories about small towns, rest stops, wrong choices and memories that never let go.

Swedish country without filters, grounded in reality and colored by folk music, factory dust, lived lives and the romance of roadside inns and truck stops. Honest Swedish country with heart, melancholy and recognition, from Norrland, for everyone who's been there.
This is country, in Swedish, for real.