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*Below is translated from Russian to English using the Google Translater program. The original text can be found here: http://www.blues.ru/bluesmen/Knockout_Greg/

Many Americans hear the band for the first time, asked - "Where are they? How? From Sweden? It can not be! I did not think that in Sweden know how to play the blues! ". It turns out that they know how to better than 80% of the very well-known in the world of American musicians.

Vocalist and accordionist Knock-Out Greg (Greg Knockout), he is in the world - Greger Anderson formed his band with his brother drummer Marcus back in 1987. It came from the very beginning like-minded musicians who are united by the infinite love of music and the desire to recreate the sound of "retro-blues" 40s - 50s, pop, when the Chicago blues were blended elements of swing and jazz. And later this led to the West Coast and Jump-Blues, the most alive today trends in modern blues.

"The perfection of style" - that's what words come to mind when you listen to or look at the Knock-Out Greg & Blue Weather, and their success is made up of many components. This and the use of traditional musical instruments and equipment, hard work in the studio for the recording of the right sound and work on their own style. All group does absolutely wrong: acoustic bass, a horn section, harmonica and acoustic-electric guitars that sound through tube amps with vibrato.

Game Knockout Greg harmonica admires, and he demonstrates knowledge of all the intricacies of sound. He never overplays, achieving results through strong tone harmonics, not the number of notes in the solo, always choosing the right style for each song. The band plays covers of carefully chosen blues and early rhythm and blues songs, but most of the repertoire consists of original songs guitarist Anders Lewen, composed in the same retro style. Exquisite guitar style sounds like Anders Leuven unwritten classic 40-50's. Some commentators even list it among the pillars of the modern guitar West Coast blues with Rick Holmstrom, Junior Watson, Alex Shultz and Kid Ramos.

Music Knock-Out Greg being perfect stylization does not lose originality. In the words of a famous guitarist Fabulous Thunderbirs Kid Ramos, known for his expertise on a reconstruction of the traditional sound: "This - not retro, it's - unfinished business." Indeed, music Blue Weather, borrowing much from the classics - T-Bone Walker, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and others, is a very fresh and original development of the unfinished business of blues classics. Such music is probably not find any in the 50's, or among our blues heroes contemporaries.

And now about the story. Having played for 3 years, 200 shows a year, and in 1995 the band released the first album Blues Disease on the independent label Last Buzz Records. The result was so successful that the next album they've recorded in the famous studio Delmark Studios in Chicago, and they spoke the voice of the American producer of the West Coast blues Lynwood Slim. In all, the group came out five records, and the brightest of them - The Wig Flipper received many enthusiastic reviews on the world, including major American blues edition.

Today Knock-Out Greg & Blue Weather is one of the most popular European blues groups, all year traveling about Europe to tour and perform on most European blues festivals. With the band on tour regularly playing American and European blues musicians - Junior Watson, Homesick James, Johnny Mars, Lynwood Slim, Sven Zetterberg, Mike Sanchez and others.
Group members:

Greger "Knock-Out Greg" Andersson - vocals, harmonica
Anders Lewen / Jonas Goransson - guitar
Urban Hed - bass
Tore Berglund - baritone saxophone
Kai Sundquist - Tenor Sax
Marcus Andersson - drums

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