Vidar Busk & His True Believers - Civilized Life

Size: 98.6 MB
Time: 42:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Last Chance To Hurt Me (3:04)
02. I Take A Lot Out Of The Bottle (5:14)
03. Gypsy Ways (3:58)
04. The Civilized Life (5:05)
05. Wait On Me Woman (4:11)
06. Rockin' In The Same Old Boat (5:55)
07. The Wringer (4:16)
08. Long Lean And Lanky (2:56)
09. I Didn't Mean To Do It (3:05)
10. Tender Hearted (4:32)

Apart from the fact that drummer Martin Windstad has swapped places with Alexander Pettersen from Bubble of Trouble / Billy T Band, the following are from the original ensemble: Johnny Augland (piano / B3 organ / guitar), Arne Rasmussen (harmonica) and Rune Endal (bass).

With Norway's most famous international blues star Kid Andersen as producer, the album was recorded in Kitchen Studio on Jar and mixed / mastered by Kid Andersen in Greaseland Studios, San Jose, California and with guest appe
arances from Sax Gordon and Greaseland Superspreader Horn Section.
Fans of Vidar Busk & His True Believers can expect both fully T-Birds-inspired øs, swinging blues, soulful ballads and red-hot guitar playing - and not just on the new album. From August, the band can once again be experienced live on stages around the country.

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Vidar Busk, Daniel Eriksen, Stig Sjostrom - Hustle & Flow

Source: Digital Lossless Copy
Size: 100.6 MB
Time: 43:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Six Strings Down (4:32)
02. Goin'Down South' (5:08)
03. Oh Mama (3:45)
04. Drive On (6:15)
05. I Love You (0:53)
06. A Little Dab'll Do Ya (3:24)
07. Oh Louise (3:06)
08. St James Infirmary (4:59)
09. Evil Train (5:37)
10. Wrecked By Snooks (3:14)
11. Drive On (Instrumental) (2:41)

Vidar Busk, Daniel Eriksen and Stig Sjøstrøm are Norway's perhaps the toughest blues combo. We speak two of the country's leading blues guitarists with drums in the back that serve unrestrained boogie, vintage rock 'n' roll and steaming blues with a lot of punch and humor.

The trio has been playing at New Orleans, and across the Mississippi and Memphis many times, and their music is deeply rooted in the area's blues traditions, interspersed with rock 'n' roll and mardi gras rhythms.

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VA - Blue Mood Label Mates: Live At Notodden Blues Festival

Size: 128,9 MB
Time: 55:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Kid Andersen - The Bender (Live) (7:24)
02 Knut Nordhagen - Slave To The Rhythm (Live) (3:56)
03 Vidar Busk - Lovestruck (Live) (7:20)
04 Orbo - Dead Man Walking (4:01)
05 Nordgarden - Side Of The Road (Live) (5:18)
06 Amund Maarud - She Loves Me She Loves Me Not (Live) (6:07)
07 Tor Einar Bekken & Richard Gjems - Midisijollin (Live) (3:22)
08 Knut Eide & Harald Stokke - Denise (Live) (5:17)
09 Kurt Slevigen - Look How, Baby (Live) (7:27)
10 Vidar Busk - Stompin' Our Feet With Joy (Live) (5:17)

The Labelmates` concert at Hovigs Hangar at Notodden Blues Festival 2017 was a great success. This concert is now out on album just in time for this years festival. Musicians from the top shelf in Norwegian country and blues bring you high quality acoustic songs that will lure out both smile and tears. We will hear artists like Vidar Busk, Bekken & Gjems, Amund Maarud and Johanne Demker among the several talented musicians on the album.

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Daniel Eriksen & Stig Sjostrom - Tin Roofs & Bottle Trees

Size: 87,1 MB
Time: 37:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Delta Blues
Art: Front

01. Green Corn (2:35)
02. Worried Life (Feat. Bill Abel) (3:43)
03. Lula Looks Dangerous (Live) (3:51)
04. Mississippi Boll Weevil (1:58)
05. Pony Blues (Feat. Bill Abel) (5:26)
06. Good Lord Made You So (Feat. Fiona Boyes & Vidar Busk) (6:15)
07. Hoopin' & Hollerin' (2:59)
08. Over The Hill (Live) (4:56)
09. Dirty Boogyin' (Feat. Bill Abel) (3:19)
10. Shake'em On Down (2:26)

Award winning blues artist and slide guitarist Daniel Eriksen teams up with drummer Stig Sjøstrøm for this high octane delta style album. Recorded on different locations in Mississippi and Memphis over several years, featuring special guests Fiona Boyes, Bill Abel and Vidar Busk. Grammy winning producer and engineer Matt Ross-Spang recorded the guys at legendary Sun Studio in Memphis. Also from Memphis, are two live recordings from The Orpheum. Bluesman Bill Abel recorded at the countryside in Duncan, Mississippi and Gary Vincent cut a few at Clarksdale Soundstage in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Blues recording artist and songwriter DANIEL ERIKSEN is best known for his breathtaking skill on the slide guitar. Eriksen has been the recipent of numerous awards such as Blues Album Of The Year (The SPELLEMANN Award 2014), Blues Artist of The Year (The NBF Blues Award 2015), and just recently took 2nd Place with STIG SJØSTRØM at The INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE in Memphis, Tennessee January 2018, in competition with almost 100 great acts from all over the world.

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Vidar Busk & His True Believers - I Came Here To Rock

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:49
Size: 126,9 MB
Styles: Swinging blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. I Came Here To Rock (3:14)
2. 24/7 (3:24)
3. Letter To My Girlfriend (2:14)
4. Mr. Sugar (2:49)
5. Get Up Baby (4:22)
6. Sweet Thing (3:19)
7. Groovy Gravy (4:44)
8. One Eye Open (2:32)
9. She's Crazy 'Bout Men (3:48)
10. Lovestruck (6:36)
11. Hard Times (5:41)
12. One Way Ticket Man (12:00)

Vidar Busk grew up in Langesund, Norway, but traveled to the USA as a 15 year old to play in the band of the American bluesist Rock Bottom. He went to the United States for several years before returning to Norway in 1990 and won the Smuget Award in 1994. He eventually got a solid band together and made his record debut under the name Vidar Busk & His True Believers with "Stompin Our Feet With Joy" in 1997 with great success.

The album was more than well received in the blues environments and rewarded with the NBF Blues Prize during the Notodden Blues Festival. With his second album, "I Came Here To Rock", he was nominated and named the Artist of the Year under the Spillemann Prize in 1998.

After releasing three albums of driving and swing-based blues rock with His True Believers as backing band, he started flirting with other styles and returned with a brand new sound in 2001 with his fourth album "Venus Texas". (Translated from Norwegian)

(Note: On track 12 there are five minutes of silence after 3:35, then a hidden instrumental bonus track starts. Just for your information.)

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Vidar Busk & His Bubble Of Trouble - Troublecaster

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:22
Size: 97.0 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[5:08] 1. Are You With Me Baby
[6:23] 2. Train Kept A-Rollin
[2:40] 3. Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie
[3:36] 4. Sneakin' Around
[2:06] 5. Hurry Up'n Wait
[3:20] 6. Crazy Ol' Barrytone
[3:54] 7. One Eye Open
[4:25] 8. Alabama Bloodhound
[5:13] 9. Troublecaster
[3:11] 10. Please Give Me Something
[2:22] 11. Danger Zone

Well-known and well-trained Busk. Not too much has happened with the Norwegian blues guitarist since "Jookbox Charade" in 2007, where he praised all his old models. This time, he hides silent performances - from rockabilly through surf and back to rock'n roll. It burns violently in Busk's guitar fingers yet - the soles are sparkling - but it does not feel new anymore, with honorable exceptions to the citizen's use of the title song.

It is ten years since Vidar Busk started a soulful neoblues trilogy, which unfortunately he jumped away from too early. Now he is back where he started, everybody knows him - like the blues's big showman. It's probably better off the stage. (Translated from Norwegian.)

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Vidar Busk & His True Believers - Atomic Swing

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:06
Size: 158,3 MB
Styles: Jump blues, R&B, big band blues
Scans: Full

1. Sho' Nuff (3:08)
2. Red Lipstick (3:57)
3. West Side Baby (3:29)
4. Hold On (3:42)
5. Shoot Ya Down (5:23)
6. Keep It Way Up High (2:46)
7. Harlem Nocturne (6:31)
8. Sally Sue Brown (2:54)
9. Don't Diz Me Babe (3:59)
10. She's A Babe (3:51)
11. Two Hits And A Sneeze (2:41)
12. Atomic Swing (6:43)
13. Dream On Silver Surfer (1:47)
14. Thirteen Women (17:08)

Vidar Busk has played blues professionally for almost two thirds of his life since he was sixteen years old. It has been a roller coaster with ups and downs during these thirty years. Musically he has always been sharp, and he has moved in and out of styles, from rockabilly and jump blues through New Orleans style music to soul, but the blues has always been there.

Vidar Busk’s first three albums - "Stompin' Our Feet With Joy", "I Came Here To Rock" and "Atomic Swing" - were in the style of jump blues, rockabilly and big band blues, but later on he ventured over to his own flavor of soul noir, Louisiana style. Lately he has been back to blues, more or less, but mixing in elements from other styles into an interesting musical gumbo and nowadays he is back with his old band, His True Believers.

(Note: Track 14 contains a hidden bonus track. The orginal track, Thirteen Women, ends at 5:07 and then there are approx 7 minutes of silence before the bonus tracks starts.)

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Vidar Busk & His True Believers - Stompin' Our Feet With Joy

Year: 1997/2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:26
Size: 161,4 MB
Styles: West Coast blues, harmonica blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Stompin' Our Feet With Joy (4:42)
2. Boogie Leg (2:56)
3. Working Man Blues (2:17)
4. 5-10-15 Hours (4:15)
5. Lucy Mae Blues (2:52)
6. Anywhere You Go (3:41)
7. The Ballad Of Vidar Busk (5:01)
8. Live My Life Too Fast (4:21)
9. Low Down Shakin' Chill (3:42)
10. Shrimps At South Peak (3:01)
11. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (3:44)
12. Use What You Got (3:47)
13. Make Me Feel So Bad (4:45)
14. She Wants To Sell My Monkey (5:02)
15. Jelly Roll (Bonus Track) (3:52)
16. Dreamin' About The Wolf (Bonus Track) (3:28)
17. In The Alley (Bonus Track) (3:53)
18. The Second Coming (Bonus Track) (3:58)

Vidar Busk is a 27 year old blues wildman from Norway. He plays guitar and sings. Listen to the song "Ballad Of Vidar Busk" for the story of a very young Norwegian kid playing on the blues chittlin' circuit in the Southern USA. For this CD he has assembled a band of extraordinary talent. The young harmonica player, 22 year old Arne Rasmussen, is in the same league as William Clarke, Rod Piazza and Kim Wilson. He is a formidable talent who is destined to make some big waves in the harp world. The drummer is 24 year old Martin Winstad. He is inventive and daring, yet remains solidly in the pocket. Rune Endal on bass is a well known figure on the Norwegian music scene. He has played in some very popular bands, and his swingin', deceptively simple playing cuts a groove as wide as the Mississippi River.

On top of this soulful stew rides Vidar on his guitar. He is a tone freak that uses an array of offbrand and vintage hollow bodies and planks to achieve his tasty licks. His playing is extremely funky but also richly traditional. He is inventive, powerful, stunning and completely in control. In short, he is a master of the blues language. And by the way, this guy can sing! /From the liner notes written by Rock Bottom

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Guitarmageddon - Electric Circus

Year: 2011
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:01
Size: 96,2 MB
Styles: Blues-rock, rock
Scans: Front

1. Kid Andersen Feat. Carsten Lolyl - Layla (3:26)
2. Lars Håvard Haugen - It Is What It Is (4:16)
3. Ronnie Jacobsen - Crossroads (3:04)
4. Amund Maarud - Sunshine Of Your Love (5:22)
5. Kjetil Grande - Children Of The Revolution (2:56)
6. Frode Alnæs - You Really Got Me (2:43)
7. Ronnie Jacobsen Feat. Adam Douglas - Gimme Shelter (5:56)
8. Gunnar 'Keith' Sjursø - You Got Me Rocking (3:01)
9. Vidar Busk - I Don't Live Today (6:03)
10. Knut Reiersrud - What A Wonderful World (5:10)

The concept "Guitarmageddon" saw the light of day in the summer of 2010 when the super guitarists Vidar Busk, Knut Reiersrud, Ronnie Jacobsen and Amund Maarud came together to make a booking appearance at Hamar MusicFestival, Norway. From stage the guitarists handed out a whirlwind of a concert performance that resulted in a musical explosion creating an echo throughout the Norwegian music industry.

Since its inception in 2010, four new guitarists have endorsed the concept and Guitarmageddon network at present consists of: Frode Alnæs, Lars Håvard Haugen, Ronnie Jacobsen, Amund Maarud, Vidar Busk, Knut Reiersrud, Kid Andersen and Kjetil Grande. All are considered to be among Norway's leading guitarists in their genre.

Guitarmageddon launched their debut album "Electric Circus" in November 2011, and all from the Guitarmageddon network are represented here. Together with some eminent guest artists they have contributed their interpretations of famous cover songs.

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Vidar Busk, Kid Andersen, Junior Watson - Guitarmageddon

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 41:10
Size: 94.3 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:53] 1. Stompin Our Feet With Joy
[2:22] 2. Caveman Rock
[3:44] 3. Guitarmageddon
[4:30] 4. Annabelle
[1:48] 5. Letter To Kedar
[1:55] 6. Like It This Way
[3:31] 7. Wolf Pack
[4:37] 8. Get Back
[2:57] 9. No Money
[3:04] 10. In The Støt
[5:57] 11. Let's Drink...Another Bottle Of The Blues
[2:47] 12. Off The Record

Bluesguitarists meet. Two of the most talented and dedicated norwegian bluesguitarists hooks up with Legend Junior Watson. Produced by Kid Andersen.

"Vidar Busk, Kid Andersen and Junior Watson giggle before they start playing “In The Støt,” one of 12 great songs on “Guitarmageddon.” Then they tickle the audience with some silly lyrics and a blazing barrage of pure joy from their guitars.

“Guitarmageddon” is first and foremost a blues album, but there’s a fair amount of rockabilly, too, especially on “Caveman Rock.” There’s even a little surf guitar thrown in. My favorite song on the album is “Let’s Drink … Another Bottle Of The Blues,” a scorching blues battle between Watson, a West Coast guitar wizard, and Busk and Andersen, who hail from Norway. I also love “Off the Record,” a sexy slow blues. I like the singing on the album just fine, but the guitar playing gets me so jacked up I have a hard time getting to sleep at a reasonable hour when I listen to Busk, Andersen and Watson play. And, yeah, sometimes I start giggling." ~Carl Abernathy

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