I began to play guitar at the age of 12 after having heard “Here Comes the Sun†from the Abbey Road album of the Beatles.
I played some rock..n roll & pop in different coverbands - and studied for 2 years at the Conservatory of Classical Music.
In 1983 I met 4 great guys and we started a Rock..n roll band called "The Bamboo Brothers".
The Bamboo Brothers. toured a lot in DK, and a little in Sweden and Germany and made two albums: "No Easy Way" and "Bamboo Brothers".
I started to get jobs as a sideman too and over the years I..ve has played/recorded with a lot of Danish and foreign artists.
Bamboo Brothers split up in 1995, and I went on with my own music as well as producing a little here and there.
I released my first solo album: â€Troels Skovgaard†in 2003 (check it out here)
or on iTunesThe same year I started recordings for a new album together with my band and a lot of other musical friends from Cph.
Also Alex Acuna, Justo Almario, Toots Thielemans, Jimmy Haslip, Kenwood Dennard, Ze Grey and Bob Bailey (musicians that I met and have played with over the years) who were all visiting Copenhagen during the recording-process joined in and dubbed beautiful stuff on some of the tracks.
The result was the double album â€No matter how far I go†which was released in February 2006 (check it out here)
or on iTunesIn June 2007 one of my songs “They talk too much†reached the final of the international competition “The blues Heritage Contest†that takes part along with “the Lakeside Bluesfestival†in Järvenää Finland.
I re-recorded the song with my actual band, went to Finland to perform it, and had the pleasure to watch it go on air in Finland, Denmark and even Australia.
Now in 2008 I..m writing songs as much as possible hoping to collect a bunch of good stuff for my third album.I..m also having fun with my old mates from the Bamboo Brothers. we are playing and working with some old recordings and at the same time writing new songs for a coming album :-) At this point we..re halfway through the reording process and expect our album to come out during the autumn 2008.At last I..d like to highly recommand my "guitardoctor" Ebbe Laug and Boogieman Guitars. I am playing on a Telecasterkind of guitar that he has build and I..m using it more and more. Ebbe is also the guy that keeps all my guitars in shape, changes frets, builds pick ups etc etc.