Biography
Eric´s Bluesband was born as a trio in november 1999. We started out playing at various pubs in Stockholm. The music we played at that time was infuenced by Cream, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton. Bluesstandards mixed with our own material. After playing a lot in Stockholm we got more and more gigs all around Sweden. In 2001 we recorded our first album (Take One) with great guestmusicians "Master" Henry Gibson and Allen Finney. After playing with different keyboardists for years, Henning joined the band in spring 2003, and we became a group of four.
In spring 2004 our second album (There´s An Angel In My Tree) was released with producer Brian Kramer. Guests on this album was among others Clas Yngström and Brian Kramer. Our music is a mix of british blues and rock with a touch of american guitartradition (Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan), but we´re not scared of using influences outside the blues-genre, as long as it blends with the music and feeling. In the beginning of 2006 we started to work on a album together with Allen Finney.
The record (Allen Finney and Ebb was) released in august and got lots of good reviewes. In the beginning of 2007 we attended on the Swedish chanel TV4 with two songs together with Allen. 2008 was a year with lots of things happened. We released our new record (From Town To Town) on the label rootsy.nu. Another highlight this year was the tour we did together with Alan Haynes from Texas. We also started to work with a horn section on some of our gigs who made our sound more full. 2009 was a year with lots of playing live gigs and promoting our new album which received many good reviewes. This year we also went out of Scandinavia for the first time playing on the International Blues Fest in Hamburg (Germany)