» Baskery

Baskery is Greta, Stella & Sunniva Bondesson. Three sisters born and bread under the same roof in the outskirts of Stockholm.

Singing three part harmonies, playing acoustic guitar, six-stringed banjo, dobro, slide and upright bass they create originals performed with a recklessness that convinces.

Their debut album "Fall Among Thieves" will be released may 7th 2008. The songs are recorded live,on stage, at Decibel Studios together with producer / engineer Lasse Mårtén (Lykke Li, Sahara Hotnights, Maia Hirasawa, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Peter Bjorn & John). The album reveals the look, taste and smell of Baskery: nothing hidden, nothing added.

Baskery won't use a genre definition, since that only causes confusion.

Fall Among Thieves
2008

01. The Brave
02. One Horse Down
03. On A Day Like This
04. Spoken Word
05. Out-Of-Towner
06. Oscar Jr Restaurant Bar
07. Here To Pay My Dues
08. Harsh
09. Hold On
10. Why Don't Ya
11. I Haunt You
12. The Wise

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A combination of alternative country, blues and rock and roll, their emotive sound is reminiscent of a jam taking place in a dusty saloon in Tennessee between Johnny Cash, an acoustic blues Led Zeppelin with the Andrew sisters sweetening the pot with the melody on top.

Their debut album, “Fall Among Thieves”, due for release in 2008, is a collaborative effort with newly formed label, Veranda Independent Records. The album was recorded the same way albums used to be recorded in places like Sun Studios and Muscle Shoals, where getting the perfect live take in the studio was essential to capturing the emotional essence of a song. No overdubs were done - all playing is live and what you hear is what was recorded just like being there in the front row of one of the band’s truly electrifying performances.

Although Baskery’s hard driving honky tonk has people leaving shows amped and in a frenzy, their softer tracks give you something to think about. Such profound and beautifully melodic songs such as “The Wise” and “The Brave” (which incidentally are different versions of the same track that start and end the album), have lyrics that paint pictures of social consciousness and give the listener something to escape to while coming down from tracks such as “One Horse Down”, “Here to Pay My Dues” and “Haunt You”, which go straight for the jugular.

In essence, Baskery is all about putting on a killer show. The material on their debut album enables them to do that.