Texas Boogie is a recording project from the beginning. It's based in the norh part of sweden, in a small town called Skellefteå, with 45000 inhabitants. The town is most famous for it's hockey team, which won the national championship in the year of 1978.The members in the project comes from different backgrounds: Roger Enquist is the songwriter and mind behind the project. He started playing the bass as a 12-year old kid in a local progressive pop band, called "Alfa-Laval", way back in the 70:ies. He left the band together with his older brother after just a few years. In the middle of the 80:ies he and his brother Sören, formed a ZZ Top cover band called "Tres Hombres", and they played on motorcycle clubs and dicoteques. Tres Hombres made their last gig in the summer of 1990 and then Roger took a long break from the music. The former members used to get together one time every each year playing some of that good ol' songs from the past, until the year of 2000, when Roger started to write his own songs. The songs was inspired of the years in Tres Hombres, so the blues and Texan rock was to be the cornerstones in his songwriting.During this time he had learned to know Lars Kastberg, as they were working together at the psychiatry clinic in Skellefteå. Lars told Roger that he also was a musician and that he had studied sound-engineering at the university. Lars had a different musically background than Roger. He had played in various bands and different genres, from heavy metal to jazz.. Roger told Lars that he had a few songs that he had written and Lars suggested that they could try to record them. Roger agreed to do so, and emphasized it was just to be a test recording. As the time went they recorded more and more songs. And Sören, the older brother, was invited to participate in the project. Sören who had played with his brother through out the years thought it was a good idea. They had one big trouble - Roger felt that he didn't cope to sing some of the songs properly. Roger and Lars had heard a local blues singer, Kurt Söderstrom, during a gig and they thought that his voice would fit in. He agreed to sing a couple of songs. Kurt has been a musician for a very long time and is the most experienced musician in the project. He is a genuine blues man and likes to improvise his singing. Kurt also added harmonica on one of the songs.As the time went they had recorded a fullength CD and the album was entitled "That Little Ol' Man From Fällfors". The title is a joke and refers to the ZZ top epithet "That Little Ol' Band From Texas". They all thought it was a great piece of work, so it was inevitable to go on and make another one. In the meanwhile they posted some of the songs from the first album on the internet - and it has been a succes.They have recieved a lot of good credits and remarks and a live event producer, Roberto Guaneri, based in Roma Italy, has shown interest. At the moment Texas Boogie is being played on three Radio Stations in "Collectif des Radios Blues" (Radio Coteaux and Radio Aria in France and Equinoxe (the radio rock) in Belgium). Texas Boogie is also played on a Radio Station in Italy called Radio Antenna 2.Texas Boogie released their second album in april the 6:th 2005, entitled "Internet Showmen".
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