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Long gone Smiles Band

The Long gone Smiles Band

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We in The Long gone Smiles Band are interested in the country music of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams. They wrote songs and performed them in their own very powerful, clear, funny, true, intelligent and sincere way. Their songs form the admirable core of the great original country music of the Past - that will live on for ever.
Our band name is a tribute to Jimmie and Hank. We have their music - but we miss their smiles.
Our working for audiences with music started off with Michael and Birgitta forming their country music duo - The Long gone Smiles - in 2001. In April 2005 they went over to Meridian, Mississippi. They wanted to honor Jimmie Rodgers with their tribute song The Brakemen on the Memphis Train. They entered the Jimmie Rodgers Talent Contest and placed third. In October 2006 Destiny knocked on their door and the boys came along with their instruments and - The Long gone Smiles Band was born!
The Long gone Smiles Band do the old songs of Jimmie, Hank and others. We have just started and we sure will focus on the old songs and the old harmony style of singing. Michael, the lead singer, writes old style music inspired by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams and on this page you will see and hear more of his stuff - sung, yodeled and played by us in the band. We hope you like it!
For more information about our interest, songs and music please visit:
www.bluestandardmusic.com
Thank you very much.
Jimmie Rodgers sings his first recorded song made in August 1927

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Video description: This is "The Soldier's Sweetheart", the very first song Jimmie Rodgers recorded. This was done by Ralph Peer on 4th of August 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee. This first record of Jimmie's sold well, but was not a hit. But, considering the fact that he was a totally unknown artist, the result was good. It was on the next recording session with Peer, in Camden, New Jersey, on the 30th of November, that Jimmie Rodgers sung his song "Blue Yodel", which became a total success and his break through as an artist. It started "T for Texas, T for Tennessee", as you know, and his yodelin' on this one gave him the name "America's Blue Yodeler". The flip side contained "Away out on the Mountain", also a success song. The rest is history.
On this video, the 78 rpm RCA Victor record from 1927 is played on a 1930's crank operated and spring driven His Masters Voice portable gramophone. I hope you enjoy this little, but crucial piece of Country Music History.
Michael
The Long gone Smiles Band sings Fred Rose's song Rootie Tootie! Performing at the Mariestad Concert, 8th of September 2007.
Our MySpace visitors - from the 1526th on April 20th.
Here is a brand new video clip of Johnny Cash's great song Folsom Prison Blues - The Long gone Smiles Band Show

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Lovesick Blues - Grand Failure Ending Version

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Member Since: 1/21/2007
Band Website: bluestandardmusic.com
Band Members: EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Blue Standard Music will present a new full size CD with The Long Gone Smiles Band entitled The Most Important Part, by the end of 2008!

It's title song: The Most Important Part is a tribute song to Hank Williams.

Hank Williams would have been 85 years old, on September 17th 2008.

Listen to the sample of the song on this site.
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Blue Standard Music in Stockholm, Sweden has two CD's available with The Long gone Smiles Band:

Nashville - 6 songs

If you believe in Christmas- 2 songs

They are mixed and mastered to the unique High Quality Sound of Art Vista Productions in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

To order CD's of The Long gone Smiles Band, please contact: Blue Standard Music
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On Saturday September 29th The Long gone Smiles Band placed First in the National Swedish Country Music Championships - "Country SM" - and became Swedish Champions in Pure Country Music 2007!

Congratulations LGSB!

Photo by Kenneth Friberg, Stockholm.

In this video below The Long gone Smiles Band do the classic instrumental Steel Guitar Rag. This took place at the Ultimate Country Cruise - a major country music event here in Stockholm, March 8th-9th 2008. Enjoy!

Steel Guitar Rag

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Here is Michael and Birgitta singing at the Mountain Church at Sälen, in Sweden, during the Country Music Championships held there on September 28th-29th. Enjoy!

When God dips his Love in my Heart

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Michael Lindgren and Birgitta Adamson do the harmony singing. Pigge Mattis picks his guitar and mandolin, Ove Sundeson slides along the Dobro and the National squareneck tricone from 1929 while Anders Hallman plays his good old bass. On the fiddle and the bow - Sven Faringer.

Our trademark:
Each of the songs presented on this site have been recorded live, with the whole band - the way it was done in the Past. No additional tracks have been mixed in.

Here is our tribute song to Jimmie Rodgers:

The Brakemen on the Memphis Train

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Jimmie Rodgers' song.
The Mystery of the Number Five. The Mariestad Concert, 8th of September 2007

Influences: We like the voices, sound and songs of Jimmie Rodgers , the Carter Family and Hank Williams! The music we compose and play is made with them in our hearts.

The songs "Why did I stray" and "The Brakemen on the Memphis Train" are written and composed by Michael H. Lindgren. Copyright Blue Standard Music HB 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.

The song The Brakemen on the Memphis Train has recieved good reviews:

"Great song, great performance, great band! Not only a perfect tribute to Jimmie, but also has Carter Family slide guitar, Hank Williams style yodel per Long Gone Lonesome Blues, and I loved the Hank Snow style acoustic guitar break on the Pent scales. Jimmie, Maybelle, Hank Snr, Hank Snow, you got the lot in there. Come to England my friends. Get booked into the Cambridge folk festival here in August!"
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The sample songs of the Long gone Smiles Band have been mixed and mastered by Art Vista Productions in Los Angeles. www.artvista.net

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Record Label: BLUE STANDARD MUSIC - Stockholm, Sweden
Type of Label: Indie