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May 16, 2023

Claes Anderson – Anderson’s Son

Life took over and raising two kids have kept me from buying, restoring and selling guitars. Now I’ve realised that I didn’t even post about the 6 track EP I recorded last summer called Claes Anderson – Anderson’s Son. I managed to get the old trio together and book Litel.cat with Antoine for the day and we recorded six songs live. I really enjoyed the experience and the result, it felt and sounded acoustic and natural. The first four songs are the actual EP, the second two were added when I had to re-release the songs on Spotify, I had to change digital provider and didn’t want to pay twice for music that was already online. The EP has a strong family theme to it, I wrote a song for everyone in the household. The first song The Fine Lines In Between was written about my struggles to accept that you can’t take love for granted and it might not last forever. I wrote Anderson’s Son for my son Vilke when he was born and about the Anderson name. One Day You’ll Understand is about the struggles we had to have my daughter Frida. I wrote Come and Lie Down Beside Me for my wife Araceli as a wedding song when we got married back in 2014.

All songs were recorded on my 1968 Levin LT-18

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September 30, 2019

Claes Anderson

The Claes Anderson EP is now up on Spotify and all other digital platforms.

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September 8, 2019

Claes Anderson

Claes Anderson’s first single Your day will surely come from their upcoming EP was officially released this past Friday.

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April 26, 2017

Claes Anderson Band

Claes Anderson Band recording in Slim Studio Bcn 2017-04-21 Claes Anderson Band in the studio, I took out my 1960 Levin LS-18 for the first time

Last Friday we got to record two tracks, Coming home and Standing tall over the ones that have fallen, with the Claes Anderson Band. It was our first time in the studio but things went pretty smooth so I think we will be back for a full album soon enough. I played on my 1960 Levin LS-18 and my 1966 Goya T-18. Now we just need to mix and master the songs and then I will post them here.

Claes Anderson Band recording in Slim Studio 21st April 2017

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February 7, 2017

Claes Anderson Band

Claes Anderson Band at Legends Dance Hall in Terrassa 4th February 2017, photo by Meritxell

We had a gig last weekend and it was great fun. It was our second gig ever, actually our first one with a drummer so things are still a bit shaky. Jordi from Rodeo Rose has joined us on drums and it feels like we are slowly finding our roles in the band. I got a chance to play electric guitar on 8 out of 19 songs which was great fun, I haven’t played electric for 2-3 years. I played on my 1968 Levin LT-18, like last time and my 1977 Greco Spacey Sounds TE-500N which sounded pretty great. I’m already looking forward to our next gig, I think we will play in Barcelona in the beginning of April. Thanks again to Toni from Legends for booking us without actually knowing what he got himself in to, we really appreciate it.

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June 17, 2016

Folkstreams

If you like old documentaries about life, music and culture I can highly recommend Folkstreams, A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures. There are a couple of documentaries by Alan Lomax that are pretty interesting.

April 6, 2016

Merle Haggard

Even though he has been ill lately it was very sad to hear about the passing of one country musics greatest and easily my favorite, Merle Haggard. He passed away today on his 79th birthday.

January 18, 2016

Sturgill Simpson

My new country favorite, Sturgill Simpson is finally coming to town. He’s playing Sala Rocksound here in Barcelona on Thursday 21st of January 2016. I was damn jealous when he was gigging around Europe last year but never came to Spain. I think it’s a solo show, which is a shame it would have been nice to see his band too. Having said that, I’m pretty sure Sturgill’s voice and guitar is enough to fill the room. If you want to learn more about Sturgill you can listen to this interview.

October 14, 2015

Cherry & Wolf

Last Saturday I got a chance to play with my friends Cherry & Wolf again. It turned out to be great fun and it seems like I have a few more gigs lined up with them this autumn. Now you can see where the Luxor Dove copy went, it’s Wolf’s main guitar and I’m playing on my beloved Morris W-50.

January 15, 2015

Mossman Guitars

1979 Mossman Catalogue, taken from David Hylander Guitar Works

I have recently come across another American guitar maker that was previously unknown to me. I mentioned Grammer guitars earlier, this time it’s Mossman guitars that I’ve fallen in love with. One of the guitar builders that I follow on Instagram, kawvalleyguitars in Kansas, kept posting images of Mossman guitars he had done neck resets on, which awoke my curiosity. After a bit of Googleing I realised that quite a few artists liked Mossman guitars, including John Denver, Eric Clapton, Albert Lee, Doc Watson, Hank Snow, Cat Stevens and Merle Travis. Stuart Mossman got fed up with all the plywood guitars that was pumped out of the big factories in the 1960-70’s and decided to start building his own guitars with real tone woods and proper craftsmanship, and so S.L Mossman Guitars were born in Winfield, Kansas.

Stuart Mossman in Winfield, Kansas. Here you can read more about the Mossman story

This could be the most awesome guitar brochure ever printed, the 1979 Mossman Catalogue, taken from David Hylander Guitar Works

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