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Finnish Blues Awards 2015 – Best Band!!!

We are very proud to announce that Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip is the winner of ”Best Band Of The Year” at Finnish Blues Awards 2015. This is really awesome and we are extremely happy about this honor. Thank you all for your support!

”Ain´t Bad Yet” album trailer released!

Artwork launched of new album ”Ain´t Bad Yet” produced by Grammy Award winning producer John Porter

New album, titled ”Ain´t Bad Yet” is produced by John Porter, legendary for his productions of Buddy Guy, B.B King, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Santana and no less than 10 Grammy winning albums. The album was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in UK. In 1975 it was the primary studios used by Queen for the recording of the greatest pop record of all times ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Album cover is now launched. Scandinavian release is set March 27. More details of the release dates coming up.

Ain´t Bad Yet 2015 Tour

Ramblified – New Music Video

Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip to European Blues Challenge 2015.

Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip won the National Blues Challenge and will represent Finland at European Blues Challenge 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.

”After The Flood” – Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip in New Orleans

(You find a version without Finnish subtitles on the video section)

”AFTER THE FLOOD” dokumentti – Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip in New Orleans. Ohjaaja Aaron Walkerin lyhytelokuva albumin äänityssessioista.

”After The Flood” – the best Finnish Blues album 2013 / Vuoden 2013 paras kotimainen blues albumi!!!

”After The Flood” won the category of the best Finnish blues album 2013 at the annual voting on Bluesminister show at YLE Radio Suomi. In the annual critics poll of Blues News Magazine ”After the flood” took the third place.

Yle Radio Suomen Bluesministeri-ohjelman kuuntelijat äänestivät ”After The Flood” albumin vuoden 2013 parhaaksi kotimaiseksi bluesalbumiksi. ”After The Flood” on myös Blues News lehden kriitikoiden valinta. Levy otti sijoittui kolmanneksi vuoden 2013 parhaat bluesalbumit valinnoissa.

”House For The Blues” – New music video!

BOOOM….”House For The Blues”, the new music video is finally here!!!

”After The Flood” Trailer

Check out new ”After The Flood” Trailer.

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IN ENGLISH: The nine albums to date by Micke Björklöf's Blue Strip have been bringing joy to blues rock lovers for more than three decades. Needless to say, the high-profile ensemble hasn't released a dozen albums. Self-criticism and, undoubtedly, working with world-renowned producers, have left the band's shelves full of quality works waiting for their turn, but for one reason or another they have not passed the original screen. The album, released under the subtitle "Outtakes", offers a selection of nine previously unreleased performances from 2002 to 2022, five recordings from sessions from Blue Strip's long-playing albums "After The Flood" (2012), "Ain't Bad Yet" (2014) and "Colors Of Jealousy" (2022). The ten-year time span is not directly part of the band's workprint. One could easily imagine that the music was created in one and the same studio situation, also based on the quality of the material. Mark Bingham's New Orleans production includes the melodically rocking Heal You, enlivened by Björklöf's tasty harmonica solo, and Dontcha Know, which playfully borrows from classic blues lyrics. The John Porter-led sessions from Rockfield Studios in Wales include the exhilarating opening boogie On Vacation and the semi-acoustic expression of Way To Go, led by Ville Leppänen on resonator guitar. The content of the latest release "Colors Of Jealousy" was created in the band's own premises in Kauhava, and a sample of the reserve section is the dark and mellow modern mid-tempo blues Runnin' Shoes. Lena Lindroos and Veera Railio take care of the backing vocals on many tracks, with Tim Lewis and Brian Coogan as guests on Hammond. The remaining four tracks are presented with a "Studio artifacts" description. The funky Bedtime Bomber was backed by Neil Brockbank in London in 2006 and the band's solo breaks veer almost proggy. A strong document of the band's fusion skills, which were perhaps still considered too disconnected from the rest of the album 'Whole Nutha' Thang'. Soundwise and vocally a bit thinner are the three "Three Times Seven Is..." recordings from Hannu Leidén's Seawolf studio in Suomenlinna, Helsinki. In any case, Keep In Mind thunders along as a Fabulous Thunderbirds-style macho number - and again Björklöf's somewhat overlooked harmonica playing drives its point home in exemplary fashion. The rhythmic Silver Moon is dominated by Leppänen's slide guitar - although the song was exceptionally written by bassist Seppo Nuolikoski, and was later refined into a rather different arrangement for the aforementioned "Whole Nutha' Thang". Another rule-breaker in the vocal arsenal, which is otherwise the work of the aforementioned guitar maestro, is the almost entirely instrumental boogaloo-jazz tune Spooky Ride, whose compositional credits go to percussionist-vibraphonist Timo Roiko-Jokela. It's all very well for the authors, as their 'worthless jams' seem to be sweeping the prize table out of the reach of almost every other studio-recording bluesman by all standards.

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”After The Flood” – Micke Bjorklof & Blue Strip in New Orleans