BLUES UNFOLDED
Ground-breaking within
Swedish music journalism, Blues Unfolded is the first Swedish
book published dealing with the blues life in Sweden. 151 black-and-white,
top-notch photographs of 
both
international and Swedish blues musicians, exhibiting the intensity
and presence of blues music in performance. 23 articles, of philosophical,
personal and anecdotal character, on selected blues musicians,
along with an essay concerning the birth of Åmål's
Blues Fest, the largest blues festival in Sweden.
R. L. Burnside, Eric Bibb, Jimmy Dawkins, T-Model Ford, Magic
Slim and Robert Belfour are but a few of all the legendary American
bluesmen represented, alongside Scandinavian top blues players
such as Peps Persson, Rolf Wikström, Louise Hoffsten, Baba
Blues, Jukka Tolonen and Knut Reiersrud.
For the blues aficionado, the release of Blues Unfolded is a
can't miss.
About the authors:
Tony Berg is a photographer and graphic artist, at the moment
working on an up-coming book of pop art. Robert Wangeby is a
former journalist and university teacher of political science,
as well as a blues musician and free lance writer. Both Berg
and Wangeby hails from Åmål, the blues Mecca of Sweden,
and have for more than 15 years covered the blues life in Sweden,
in text and in photographs. Blues Unfolded is their entrée
to book publishing.