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"Rebecca Drive"
Debut album from the Willy Clay Band (Sweden)
Rebecca Drive is a collection of 13 original songs so immediate you almost wonder why nobody has written them before. The album, recorded earlier this year in Nashville, is produced by Will Kimbrough (Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joe Shaver, Steve Forbert, etc) and features guest perfomances by the legendary Garth Hudson (The Band) and pedal-steel virtuoso Bucky Baxter (Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, etc.).
The band?s strengths are many:
-Great songwriting; Tony Bj?rkenvall, Bj?rn Pettersson and Reine Touremaa, each add their own personal touch.
- The considerable vocal talents of all three writers, who take turns singing lead and joining in with heavenly harmonies.
- Solid support of guitar wizard ?rjan M?ki on lap steel, dobro and electric guitar, and the tasteful drumming of young, Fredrik Elenius.
At first listen you might be tempted to label their style as classic Americana; in the same vein as The Band or early Eagles, yet spiced with influences of alternative country. Listen closer and you?ll find that the Willy Clay Band has translated the genre, colored it with their own reality from way up north in Sweden to create a sound all their own.
When they sing about travelling down the highway, it?s not Route 66 or the 110 but the road between Kirunua and Karesuano. When you hear the sound of loneliness it?s not an echo from the Arizona desert, it?s the emptiness of the endless plains in the land of the midnight sun.
All five band members hail from the far north with Kiruna as their home-base, a mining town famous for it?s northern lights, it?s fabulous Ice Hotel and before too long the Willy Clay Band.
