Blues lovers in Göteborg, Sweden (where I live) are used to
see and hear Tim Lothar Petersen as the drummer of the Danish blues
outfit Lightnin' Moe & His Peace Disturbers: in every way an electric
band with a powerful groove akin to that of The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
But there is another side of Tim, amply illustrated by his debut CD
"Cut To The Bone". A mixture of original stuff and songs
by the old masters: Charlie Patton, Willie Brown and Leadbelly. Sung
and played on acoustic guitar by the versatile Tim. |
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Low budget in production - but not in a musical sense.
Fave cut: Tim's selfpenned "Katrina", a blues with a message,
dealing with the New Orleans disaster. Droning suggestively, starkly
contrasting with "Amalina" - a light and merry instrumental
fit for the soundtrack of a pastoral idyll. Bravo!
Drummer photo: Vanja Fridhammar (Göteborg Blues Party 2005) |
Press info from the website of Tim Lothar Petersen
In Denmark, Tim Lothar Petersen is well known as a drummer at the Danish
blues scene. More than 900 gigs at clubs and festivals all over Europe
has made him a very rutined and experienced musician. Now he has taken
up the guitar and plays the music that stole his heart long time ago,
the country blues of the Mississippi Delta. With an old acoustic guitar,
a Dobro and a rusty slide, his performance shows great respect for the
music that once was played at bars and juke joints down south. Inspired
by blues greats as Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James
and many others, he plays and sings some of the songs that, long time
ago, were radio and jukebox favorites.
Concert review from Cafe Beau the L'Air, Hamme, Belgium – sep.
2006:
”He plays a perfect mix between its own work and the classics of
the old blues-masters. For the whole evening we stayed in a higher region,
in this smoky club with
the purest tones of the blues.
My god... I did not know that Denmark was a part of Mississippi.
Tim Lothar Petersen is white on the outside, but on the inside he's black
as a coalmine.
Thank you Mr. Petersen... for this wonderful, beautiful evening.”
Marc Bouillon – Bobtjes Blues Pages
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