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Album
Lilja, Mathias
Mathias Lilja
(Rootsy.nu)

Price: 69 SEK

The Swedish singer/songwriter Mathias Lilja has taken his time to write and record his first solo album. It took him about 20 years of playing and recording with various bands and 20 years of living a life with ups and downs, to be able to write and record this album. It was worth the wait.

We get 9 original songs and a cover. Songs that Mathias Lilja has been working on for years, tried and tested while playing live. Beautiful, melancholic songs that speak to your heart.

In live reviews and interviews in the last few years, several American singer/songwriters been name dropped to describe Mathias Lilja and his music. It's true that he has not reinvented the wheel, but by adding his own musical experience to the Americana tradition he'sd created his own, contemporary brand of music.

On the other hand, it's not a coincidence that the one cover on the album is Townes Van Zandt's »No Place To Fall«.

The album was recorded back home in Örebro and co-produced by Lilja and musicians Clas Olofsson and Fredrik Landh.

Mathias Lilja started his career in some 20 years ago. For almost a decade he was the lead singer/guitarist and main songwriter in the 60′s inspired garagerock foursome “The Strollers”. Their first record “Falling Right Down” (1999) is considered a classic among a lot of garagerock fans. The band released one more full length record “Captain of my ship” (2000), apart from a few 45′s, before their demise in early 2000. Since then he has been the singer/guitarist of yet another acclaimed retro driven group “The Maharajas”. Besides his love for all that has to do with 60’s garage/pop/psychedelic music, Mathias has been hugely inspired by the great musicians and songwriters such as Gram Parsons, Clarence White, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark & Blaze Foley and many others.

1. Evil
2. Don't Fade On Me
3. Devil's Almanack
4. Give It All Away
5. I Will Stay
6. The Wrong Guy
7. In The Distance
8. No Place To Fall
9. Johanna's Song
10. Let It Grow

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