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Einar Stenseng

The Lord of the Fjord

About Me



Buy my debut album from CDON.com or the iTunes Store .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/20/2005
Band Website: einarstenseng.com/
Band Members: Einar Stenseng and the Tea-Baggers:
Einar Stenseng (vocals, electric guitar, piano)
John C. Barry (bass)
Chris Hughes (drums)Einar Stenseng and His Shuffling Hungarians:
Einar Stenseng (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano)
Roger Græsberg (electric guitar)
Frode Bjørnstad (pedal steel guitar, banjo)Einar Stenseng and the Originals:
Einar Stenseng (vocals, electric guitar)
Roger Græsberg (electric guitar)
Raymond Hauger (bass)
Einar Lukerstuen (drums)Einar Stenseng and His Boogie-Woogie Boys:
Einar Stenseng (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Chris Damien Doll (electric guitar)
Alexander Ozga (electric guitar)
Egil Hagen Clausen (bass)
Olga Raftevold (drums)
Influences: ABBA, Louis Armstrong, Art Zoyd, Kevin Ayers, The Band, Bobby Bare, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, Chris Bell, Chuck Berry, Big Star, The Birthday Party, Black Sabbath, Dock Boggs, David Bowie, The Boys, Anne Briggs, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Cabaret Voltaire, John Cale, Glen Campbell, Can, Captain Beefheart, James Carr, The Carter Family, Martin Carthy, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gene Clark, Cluster, Eddie Cochran, Cockney Rebel, Leonard Cohen, Shirley Collins, Ry Cooder, The Cramps, Crime and the City Solution, Karen Dalton, Miles Davis, deLillos, Sandy Denny, The Dillards, The Dixie Chicks, Nick Drake, The Dubliners, Bob Dylan, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, Roky Erickson, Bill Evans, The Everly Brothers, The Faces, Fairport Convention, Bill Fay, Archie Fisher, Flatt and Scruggs, Jackson C. Frank, Free, Kinky Friedman, Lefty Frizzell, Funkadelic, Dick Gaughan, Gary Glitter, The Grateful Dead, The Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Peter Hammill, Hanoi Rocks, Tim Hardin, Harmonia, Roy Harper, Emmylou Harris, Die Haut, Lee Hazlewood, Hellbillies, Robyn Hitchcock, Roscoe Holcomb, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Hoola Bandoola Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Mary Hopkin, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, The Incredible String Band, Andy Irvine, The Jacobites, Bert Jansch, Blind Willie Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, George Jones, Nic Jones, Johnny Kidd, Carole King, Roland Kirk, Kris Kristofferson, Fela Kuti, Leadbelly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bert Lloyd, The Louvin Brothers, Luke the Drifter, Magazine, John Martyn, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Maria McKee, Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Minnie, Joni Mitchell, The Modern Lovers, Bill Monroe, Van Morrison, Mott the Hoople, Fred Neil, Neu!, The New York Dolls, Nico, Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, Roy Orbison, Osibisa, Gram Parsons, Charley Patton, Ole Paus, The Pentangle, Iggy Pop, Elvis Presley, John Prine, Lou Reed, John Renbourn, Jimmie Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Slade, Sly and the Family Stone, Hank Snow, The Soft Boys, Epic Soundtracks, The Stanley Brothers, Steeleye Span, Rod Stewart, The Stooges, The Strawbs, Nikki Sudden, T. Rex, Television, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Johnny Thunders, Van der Graaf Generator, Dave Van Ronk, Townes Van Zandt, Alan Vega, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Muddy Waters, The Watersons, Jimmy Webb, Gillian Welch, Hank Williams, Kelly Willis, Robert Wyatt, Neil Young
Record Label: Big Dipper
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Opening up for Richard Thompson

Stenseng will do a short solo set opening up for Richard Thompson at Gamle Logen in Oslo tomorrow, the 23rd of May. The concert starts early; doors open at 6:30 pm....
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:54:00 PST

Norwegian Underwood

Einar Stenseng Band er et av 8 Urørt-band som er med i trekningen om å få spille på Norwegian Underwood (lillescenen på Norwegian Wood). Gi din stemme her....
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Thu, 01 May 2008 03:20:00 PST

Nikki Sudden memorial concert

On Wednesday the 26th of March, the second anniversary of Nikki Sudden’s passing, John C. Barry and myself will perform a few of Nikki’s songs at his favourite waterhole, the Bellman Bar ...
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST

Order my album from the iTunes Store

I was made aware that the iTunes Store now offers my album for sale. So try this link if you're interested....
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:29:00 PST

About the songs: "Leaving Jerusalem"

"Leaving Jerusalem" was written in the Spring of 2004. The opening line  "I've fallen out of favour with the prophets of Jehova"  was coined simply to impress Nathan Vanderpool. Nathan and I had me...
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:22:00 PST

About the songs: "The Librarian"

This lyric was inspired by the Richard Brautigan book The Abortion. Brautigan is a writer I've always been curious of, but I didn't get around to actually reading him untill last year, when I found a...
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:46:00 PST

Order my album online (EU only)

A little bird whispered in my ear that my debut album can be ordered from CDON.com. They supposedly deliver to 16 countries, but only within the EU, I'm afraid....
Posted by Einar Stenseng on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:23:00 PST