In 1970, American music living legend LEE HAZLEWOOD decided to up
sticks and move to Sweden. There he recorded his brilliant 'Cowboy in Sweden",
a country masterpiece with baroque overtones which remains to this day not
only one of his very best albums, but also one of the classics of what continues
to be known as "Americana".
35 years later, strangely, some of the best albums of the genre are
now coming out of Sweden or Norway. Launched towards the end of the 90's
by people like NICOLAI DUNGER, CHRISTIAN KJELLVANDER and his Loosegoats or
THE KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, the "Scandinavian Folk" trend is currently
going from strength to strength, thanks to fine albums by JOSE GONZALES,
MATTIAS HELLBERG or THOMAS DYBHAHL. The aim of this compilation is to reveal
the richness and the diversity of those "new folk sounds from Northern
Europe"