Album Notes

Old Lost John is the musical project of Swedish songsmith Tomas Thunberg. Once a woodsman and a horse-keeper, he now lives in the city of Malmo, writing and recording his own music.

"The Ghost of Calder Mountain" is an album probably best described as dark, haunting, sometimes eerie americana folk with an old-timey, traditional touch. Sparse arrangements with mandolin and pump organ supplying the vocals and guitars, lyrics about fear and desire, love and mistrust. The characters in these songs struggle to come to terms with themselves and their emotional conflicts, and it's all delivered in stark poetic images both vivid and bleak. It's not all doom-and-gloom however, and room is given for twisted humour as well as a couple of lighter and more hopeful songs.

"If you want to hear a guy that can carry a song with an acoustic guitar and a voice...look no further. Tomas Thunberg has a way of writing folk songs that are timeless...and will always stay that way. Free of all gimmicks and dated characteristics...the level of Old Lost John's music might never be reached by any other indie-folk artist." (Jesse Nickerson - Amber Dust)

"...Old Lost John sound like Leonard Cohen in the rain, an even more somber and lonely Leonard Cohen than we're used to." (Craig Bonnell - Swedes Please)