Roots, Blues,Country,Rock with a dash of Celtic soul, is the music served up by Steve Morgan either Solo,Duo or with his Band. All long time professionals and experienced players with a track record longer than your arm.
In addition to Steve on Vocals,Guitar,Harmonica we have Arild Seim and Atle Johanssen(Guitars), Geir Rong(Bass),Helge Hyheim(Drums,Vocals). All experienced players in their own right with a great ability to complement each other.
Roots,Blues,Country and Folk are the basic elements of my repertoire with of course strong influences from the 60's and 70's , not so much 80's and 90's as my musical style had almost settled into place by then. Definiteley nothing from the Dance,Trance,Hip Hop ,Rap ,Crap etc etc, genres,so if you are looking for that, then look elsewhere.
Now we have some common ground to walk on we can mention some names like Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, Tony Joe White, J.J. Cale, Townes Van Zant, Willie Nelson, Merle Hagard, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Tom Waits and some newer names like Chuck Cannon, Shawn Colvin, Greg Brown, Brendan McKinney, Nickle Creek, Alison Krauss and Union Station, James Taylor, are you starting to get my drift. Various material from all of the above and some more know artists like Beatles, Stones , Eric Clapton, blah, blah. as well as, as many original songs as I can get away with!! constituting a very wide and varied melting pot of music. Throw all that together with an audience contact which is warm witty and at times hilarious to say the least then you have a rough idea as to where I am coming from. All delivered in a down to earth,honest and sincere fashion with no artificial aids or safety net.
Steve Morgan Band are now booking for Clubs,Pubs, Festivals,Events and private parties for 2009. For details of dates,prices etc please call 0047 98438519 or e-mail stevemorgan@c2i.net. Also check out
www.steviemorgan.com
ABOUT ME.
Born and raised in the industrial heart of Scotland in the Lanarkshire town of Wishaw literally on the doorstep of the Ravenscraig Steel Works, Meadowhead Road to be exact (see inside cover of CD "Heaven Help Me"). A happy and robust childhood being exposed to music at a very young age by a musical mother who was and still is a wonderful singer of ballads and folk songs with a healthy love of music of all types from folk to classic to opera. I have very fond memories of a huge gramophone player pouring out the sounds of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Frankie Laine, to name but a few, and of course the Irish and Scottish folk songs, some of which are with me still.
My first attempt at playing music was in the school penny whistle band then the school choir then moving on to violin and trumpet until my father brought home a guitar one day and that was it for me. However, music was never considered a career option in working class Scotland at that time so it was an education and a real job for you laddie. After leaving school with a fistful of O levels and A levels I went to live and work in England, first Coventry then Nottingham. I always had my guitar with me and played for my own amusement until one fatefull evening in a Nottinham pub, things started to change. Long story short, I got offered a gig and did'nt even know what a gig was, some guy was willing to pay me to play music in his pub. Well, f--- me that was something I did for fun. I learned real fast, after a short while I was "gigging" six nights a week and making more money than I was in my day job. I learned real fast that in the music game it was more about who you knew as to what you knew. So I made friends and contacts and through one of those friends, an Australian musician named Don Fletcher, I was introduced to an agent in London called Ann Dex, who sent me on my first foreign gig, Oslo, Norway. The date was February 1982.
Well, Norway in the early 80's turned my head a little to say the least. I loved it, the life of a traveling musician, what the hell, I was young.
So, 24 years further on up the road I am still doing it, what a hell of a ride it has been too. Like any occupation it has had it's up's and down's but I don't regret any of it, 24 years of interesting countries like Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, America, England, Scotland, yep I've been around. 24 years of playing some great music with some truly great people in some weird, wacky, wonderful, not so wonderful places that most people have never heard of never mind traveled to. In 2001 my long time partner and good friend Barry Richards and I played in the world's most northern venue Hotel Finken,Svalbard then a month later, totally by coincidence after a chance meet with a very fine lady called Anna Brown we ended up playing in the world's most southern venue, The South Sea Hotel, Stewart Island, New Zealand. You could'nt plan it if you wanted to.
These days most of my live work is around Bergen, Norway (where I now reside), Denmark, Bornholm (in the Summer), Austria, Switzerland (in the Winter), but you never know what can be round the next corner. So for now the wheels are still rolling and the music keeps coming.
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