Introducing SteelFinger Slim

by Bjørn Berge

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	1.	Mama Said 03:50
	2.	Get It On 03:23
	3.	Your Man 03:53
	4.	Devil Calling 03:40
	5.	Like A King 03:46
	6.	Bastards 03:39
	7.	Spoonful 04:03
	8.	Begging 03:56
	9.	Black Night 03:04
	10.	Don´t Look Back 04:15

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Bjørn Berge has for a number of years proven himself as a unique guitarist, an acoustic genius and a formidable live performer. With his acoustic guitars, he moves mountains and blows the listeners away with hard-hitting arrangements. Berge's fierce and dynamic guitar playing on the acoustic guitar travels between blues, rock, funk and ballads. The guitarist from Norway has previously released 12 studio albums and one live album. In 2001 and 2002 he received a Norwegian Grammy in the Blues category, and the Notodden Blues Festival Blues Award in 2001.

This is the long-awaited 13th studio album from Berge, where he still shows his virtuoso abilities as a guitarist. With cover versions like T-Rex's "Get It On" from 1971 and Deep Purple´s "Black Night" from 1972, Berge takes rock classics into a dark, acoustic blues-landscape. He´s a great storyteller, with a deep and characteristic voice and with impressively fast fingers made of steel. He is living up to the title: "Introducing SteelFinger Slim".

A song that has become for many one of the first and greatest glam rock/boogie rock songs, was "Get it On" which also works excellently in Berge's one-man orchestra. His powerful voice takes the song into a rougher, more naked musical landscape. 

The arrangements are created spontaneously both backstage and at the concert, but the final arrangements are nevertheless set by testing in front of a live audience.

Which is natural, as during his career Bjørn Berge has built up a solid live reputation as a world-class guitarist, which means that he regularly visits major jazz, blues and rock festivals and clubs around Europe and North America. He has previously played, among others, Roskilde Festival(DK), Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest(CAN), Versailles Jazzfestival(FR), Nice Guitarfestival(FR), Basel Guitarfestival(CH), Arezzo Wave Love Festival(IT), Koktebel Jazzfestival(UKR) , Creation of Peace Festival(RUS), Burg Hertzberg Festival(DE), Notodden Blues Festival(NO), Molde Jazz Festival(NO), Skanderborg Festival(DK), Nibe Festival(DK) and many, many more.

The album is recorded at ABC Studio in Etne and recorded by Kjetil Ulland.

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released January 29, 2024

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Bjørn Berge Oslo, Norway

Bjørn Berge (born September 23rd 1968, in Sveio) is probably the Norwegian blues-artist who, more often than others, dares to follow his own paths in order to find his personal musical medium of expression. Since his soloist debut with the album Blues Hit Me (1999), the indicator has pointed in but one direction – upwards. ... more

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