Well. Thanks for all the kind words about our duo; Dockery Dawgs.

I'm the guitar player (and diddely bow plunker) known as Johnnie at the Tweedboard.

It's correct as the Tweedsters say that "Moan" is our regular first release. Me and the lead singer (Geir AKA Bacon) did release a 4 track CD in 1995 with our band Blues Medicine.

We also released a 12 track demo CD in 2000/2001 (13 songs with the hidden track, but 13 is bad luck...)It's recorded by ourselves and with no added instrumentation. (This is maybe even a surprise for the Tweedsters)

The "Moan" CD has additional instruments, piano, harmonica and percussion on a couple of tracks, even a drumloop, but most of of it it's regular acoustic stuff.

As Norwegians the CD is mainly made for our own audience. We can't be purists because that's immpossible with our own cultural background. Most of our music is prewar blues, but we try to make songs ourselves that doesn't differ that much. We've added African percussion instruments to try to get the music down to the soil of the earth. Other Norwegians (like Knut Reiersrud) adds traditional Norwegian folk music to the blues.

I've always wondered why the blues is so popular in Norway, were we have little in common with it's origins, but I think it's something with the blues that touches people across borders and cultures because it's REAL music.

John Ivar