Member Since: 5/27/2006
Band Website: csnielsen.dk
Band Members:
CS Nielsen: vocals, acoustic guitar & harmonica.Additional instrumentation on coming album:Accordion (Jacob Horney), organ (Jacob Horney), wurlitzer (Jacob Horney), electric guitar (Nils Læsø Lenskjold Thomsen), lap steel (Nils Læsø Lenskjold Thomsen), auto harp (Jesper Henning Pedersen), dulcimer (Jesper Henning Pedersen), dobro (Morten Maltesen), electric bass (Mikael Bagger/ Morten Maltesen), upright bass (Kresten Andersen), drums & percussion (Jon Kruse).
Influences: Well, life - and all the questions that come and go with it... Life is for living and singing about, and I prefer the songbooks of "Old, Weird America". I find a huge source of inspiration in the drama and storytelling, poetry and wisdom, brutality and anxiety, weariness and sadness, loss and loneliness, energy and drive, desperation and yearning, humor and wit, justice and rebellion, hell, fire and brimstone, faith, hope and love, flesh, blood and bone, spirit and soul, guts and heart - and art! - packed (layer upon layer) in the traditions of folk music: hillbilly, songster, blues, Elizabethan/Appalachian ballads, old-time, bluegrass, ragtime, gospel, spirituals, hollers, shanties, Tin Pan Alley, honky-tonk, rhythm & blues, rockabilly, rock & roll, beat, urban folk, folk rock, country rock, outlaw, singer/songwriter, lo-fi, goth folk, etc. - plenty to go around for Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, and all the blue Mondays as well... I like my water clear, so I try to draw from the deepest wells around: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Gillian Welch, Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Ralph Stanley, Robert Johnson, Louvin Brothers, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Staple Singers, Delmore Brothers, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, John Jacob Niles, Lucinda Williams, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Merle Travis, Skip James, Sis. Rosetta Tharpe, Rev. Gary Davis, Golden Gate Quartet, Blind Willie Johnson, Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Goebel Reeves, Dock Boggs, Son House, Leadbelly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Rolling Stones, Everly Brothers, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Simon & Garfunkel, JJ Cale, John Fogerty, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, Mickey Newbury, Tom Paxton, Tim Hardin, Hoyt Axton, Hank Snow, Blue Sky Boys, Elizabeth Cotten, Gordon Lightfoot, Jimmie Driftwood, Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Cline, Gram Parsons, Lee Hazlewood, Paul Robeson, Roy Orbison, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, The Band, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, Steve Earle, David Eugene Edwards, Ryan Adams, Mark Lanegan, White Stripes, Daniel Lanois, Cowboy Junkies, Handsome Family, Stephen Foster, Cecil Sharp, Francis James Child, John Lomax, Alan Lomax, Ralph Peer, John Hammond, Sam Phillips, Harry Smith, Greil Marcus, a whole bunch of other def poets, storytellers, filmmakers, artists, visionaries, rebels, pilgrims, preachers, prophets, philosophers, sinners and saints - and such wells won't dry out for a while...
Sounds Like: Any playlist from Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour - dreams, schemes and themes...
Record Label: Songcrafter Music
Type of Label: Indie