Geir Bertheussen Blues Express - Southside

Size: 86,0 MB
Time: 36:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Cakewalk (2:40)
02. Born On The Southside (3:56)
03. King Of My Castle (2:55)
04. Steppin' Stone (Feat. Red Hot Horns) (4:21)
05. How We Roll (5:11)
06. Hard Times (3:04)
07. Supergirl (3:36)
08. World Is Shakin' (4:15)
09. Too Much Of Nothing (2:43)
10. Lone Wolf (3:38)

Harp player, songwriter, bandleader and singer Geir Bertheussen, well known as ”Milkman” was born in 1966 on the Southside of the island Senja, North-Norway. GB picked up the blues harmonica as a young kid, only 13 years of age. GB is an outstanding harp player and a singer with Soul! His technique on Blues harmonica is awesome, and his way of playing is hard hitting down- to-earth Chicago blues style like his mastersound influences. Chicago legends as James Cotton, Junior Wells, Sony Boy, Charlie Musselwhite and William Clark inspired him when he was young and started listening to the Blues.
These legends learned him how to make the Cross and Cromatic harps to sound great with his own style. In the late 80`s GB started touring with his own band, and he did well. Soon he and his band named GB Blues Band started heavily touring in the northern parts of Norway. As years went by there has been som member changes and various band constellations. Just recently the band has released yet another album called "Southside" out of total six album recordings. Since the 90`GB has used GB Blues Express as his permanent band name and is now successfully touring all over the world with his great showmanship on stage with his “Mississippi saxophone” and big voice.

Southside

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Geir Bertheussen Blues Express - Hits You Like A Train / Live At The Shack Up Inn Mississippi

Geir Bertheussen Blues Express is a hard working bluesband from the northern parts of Norway. The band mostly plays standard Chicago blues, but with a taste of soul and some funky blues tunes added to their repertoire. Last summer, the frontman, Geir Bertheussen, made a road trip through the Mississippi delta, and came up with the idea of returning the following year to make a live recording at the Shack-Up-Inn club in Clarksdale. One of his mentors, and also friend, Charlie Musselwhite, whom Geir Bertheussen Blues Express did a warm-up gig for in 2010 at the Nidaros Bluesfestival, also made a live recording at this particular club.

Geir Bertheussen is a true bluesman. He’s been doing this kind of music style for 25 years now. Like Howlin Wolf used to do, he sings with authority, feeling and bite. He’s harmonica style of playing is in the best Junior Wells tradition, but of course in his own way and interpretation. In the mid 90’s Bertheussen was among others, one of the most touring blues acts in Norway. Like in his song “E6 Highway” from his Grounded album, in which he sings about the life on the road, and what could happen.

He recorded a live album at NRK Troms in 1995 that was simply called “Live”. In 97 a new live album was recorded at Shit Happens MC Club in Finnsnes. In 2001 he’s first studio album was recorded in Trondheim, and a grand tour followed up to support the album.Grounded received a lot of great reviews.

Touring for several years at practical every club and juke joint there is to be found in Norway, this finally led to a new recording in 2011 with a new band that is now known as Blues Express.

The band features Kai-Sverre Fjellberg (Right middle) on guitars, Trond Hansen (far right) on the Bass, and Kare “Lefty” Amundsen (far left) on drums. All the three of them have several years playing the blues in different bands for the past two decades.

Album: Hits You Like A Train
Size: 119,6 MB
Time: 50:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Rockin' Blues, Harmonica Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Introduction (1:05)
02. Hits You Like A Train (3:52)
03. A Womans Fool (2:59)
04. Shake For Me (4:03)
05. My Woman Is Crazy (2:56)
06. Before I Die (3:35)
07. Jukebox Stomp (4:03)
08. New Life (3:34)
09. Down To The Station (5:34)
10. A Wolf At My Door (3:07)
11. So Cruel (3:49)
12. High Horse (4:58)
13. Way Back Home (3:22)
14. Heavy Rain (3:31)

Hits You Like A Train (MC)
Hits You Like A Train (Zippy)

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Album: Live At The Shack Up Inn Mississippi
Size: 151,9 MB
Time: 65:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Rockin' Blues, Harmonica Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Highway 49 (Live) (8:00)
02. Back To Mississippi (Live) (3:05)
03. Rock This House (Live) (6:37)
04. Emptiness (Live) (3:32)
05. After All These Years (Live) (6:20)
06. Feel So Good (Live) (8:12)
07. Country Girl (Live) (4:32)
08. Hits You Like A Train (Live) (3:32)
09. Godwind Shuffle (Live) (3:49)
10. Milkman Blues (Live) (3:37)
11. Way Back Home (Live) (4:06)
12. Jumper Hangin' On The Line (Live) (9:37)

Live At The Shack Up Inn Mississippi (MC)
Live At The Shack Up Inn Mississippi (Zippy)

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