Showing posts with label Sven Zetterberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sven Zetterberg. Show all posts

February 16, 2024

Portrait : Sven Zetterberg (1952-2016)


→ Special thanks to L.C. for introducing me to this exciting bluesman from Sweden



Soul of the blues
I
t took him just a short year to master guitar perfectly when he was already 24. So perfectly that he was able to back the great Muddy Waters at a 1976 show in Stockholm. Since then he could compete with the best US blues guitarists. But his discovery of the blues goes back way before that when by the age of 12 he used to listen to blues on his small radio. After hearing Walter Horton, he started playing harmonica, and later started to sing, soon becoming a skilled blues singer.

His first band, Telge Blues, active from 1972 to 1976, released a unique album in 1975. He was singing and playing harmonica. It is when the band split that he decided to practice guitar intensively.