Album Notes

Hardcore Troubadours first saw daylight in late September 2006 when Roger and Rickard, then in punk rock outfit Juniper Hill, met up in Rogers’s living room in Sundbyberg with a bottle of whiskey, an acoustic guitar, a 4-channel portable studio and a bunch of favorite songs to record. Roger, being hopelessly inadequate at playing any instrument grabbed the microphone.

Those early sessions, always drenched in alcohol, saw the boys recording songs of Steve Earle (from whose song they took their name), Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Bruce Springsteen, Swedish rock icon Thåström as well as a few efforts of their own.

After a few months of bringing fresh recordings down to the local bar and badgering the owner, a first live show was scheduled for early 2007. The show was well received by most and the boys sure had a great time, being paid a bottle of whiskey.

For five years this was basically the Modus Operandi for Hardcore Troubadours. Drunken sessions in Rogers’s living room resulting in recordings of varied quality mixed up with live shows in and around Sundbyberg. The only real difference being that focus started drifting away from covers and towards original songs, most of which were well received by audiences and friends.

This pretty much brings us up to date on Hardcore Troubadours and their early adventures.

So, finally, in late 2011, the boys decided the time was right to embark on a new chapter of their musical life. Always using the “we were drunk” excuse whenever showing of a recording to friends started getting stale, and the songs for a real record were already, mostly, written. Calls were made to Lilja at Studio Listenelsewhere, who had previously recorded demos for Juniper Hill, and a date was set. A weekend in December spent in the studio resulted in Nifaliophobia (the fear of being sober), the debut album now for sale digitally right here at cd baby.