MP3: Nisse Hellberg - Trettifyran
I'm not feeling inspired by my back-catalogue this week, so I've preempted my usual Friday oldie post with something that's a little bit old and a little bit new. Nisse Hellberg has been around a long while, both as the frontman for Wilmer X and also as a solo artist, among other various projects. I was looking for something to put on the stereo when my dad was visiting over the holidays and figured that his latest album "Snackbar blues". It's total dad-rock - a little rockabilly, a touch of blues, all well-played and inoffensive. Thing is, I find myself listening to the damn thing over and over, long after my dad's gone home. It took me awhile to figure it out, but it finally dawned on me: Nisse Hellberg reminds me a heckuva lot of Dave Alvin from The Blasters. It's classic, rootsy rock'n'roll from a guy whose old band first gained acceptance from the punk-rockers before making any inroads to the mainstream. That's kind of the way it happened, right?
The song I've posted today is cover of "Trettifyran", originally done by Olle Adolphson (that's the little old part). At first I thought it was a Swedish version of "Waitin' for the axe" by BR5-49, but I guess that only goes to show what I know. Not very much, huh? Dad-rock or not, this I like.
Nisse Hellberg - Trettifyran