![]() Sometimes dark as the Nordic winter night - sometimes fresh as a sweet shower of summer rain in the Norwegian highlands. What gives this band it's unique sound is the nordic approach to musical forms that are familiar to the American listener, and then - slowly - the songs turn into an enchanting Scandinavian experience. The album was given the title "Trail Of Souls". Singer Solveig Slettahjell, guitarist Knut Reiersrud and the innovative piano trio In the Country came together and did something new: They recorded an original set of songs - a combination of archaic religious songs from the Norwegian countryside combined with old African American spiritual music from sources such as Blind Willie Johnson, Ethel Waters and the famed Mahalia Jackson. Fiddle tunes, Sami joiks and folk songs, often based on hymns from central Europe and England with their modest intensity have been sources for Scandinavian jazz since Jan Garbarek's Nordic sound emerged in the late sixties. In Norway, traditional folk music has merged together with jazz - often labeled as North European Mountain Jazz. Jeremy's connection with the Island started before he was born and he's been there on and off ever since."Jazz, in all its forms, has always found inspiration in vernacular music. ![]() They even play as a three piece without guitar. The band started out as a four-piece with no piano, became a five-piece for several years, and then returned to a four-piece configuration, this time with no bass, and it's been that way for over 10 years. He’s played duets with President Clinton, and Carly Simon - he’s not afraid of anything, and he plays it all. Jeremy Berlin, the piano player has been with the band for most of its life - since the summer of '93. With a couple of breaks, he's been with the band since he got to the Island. He had gone back to Denton and Austin to form his own band with his friend and fellow guitar master Johnny Moeller (now with The Fabulous Thunderbirds), and Johnny Hoy found him at the right moment and asked him to come up and play with us. Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish Live The New England Blues Summit 2017 2,767 views 16 Dislike Share Save MoeJoeVision 4.3K subscribers Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish Live The New. They made one of the great blues blues records in ‘Live at King King’, and when we go to Europe, everyone remembers: everyone wants Paul. Paul Size arrived from Texas in 1997 after a famous stint with The Red Devils in LA. He came to the Island in 1978, after soaking up Muddy Waters’ and Tom Waits’ shows as a teenager. Somehow he manages to do all the gigs as well. Johnny juggles a full life where he takes advantage of his many skills including stone masonry, fishing, antique dealing, farming. Formed in 1991, the band has evolved through many incarnations, three Tone Cool and two self-produced CDs, trips around the world as far as South Africa and mostly the joys of playing a lot of music on Martha's Vineyard where most of them live. ![]() Johnny juggles a full life where he takes advantage of his many skills including stone masonry Read Full Bio Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish plays a wide range of blues and roots music, including but not limited to rockabilly, rock n' roll, swing, blues of many stripes, and a lot of New Orleans-steeped voodoo. Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish plays a wide range of blues and roots music, including but not limited to rockabilly, rock n' roll, swing, blues of many stripes, and a lot of New Orleans-steeped voodoo.
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