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Backwoods

About Me


It's hard these days to come across an original concept in music. Today's scene is jam packed with overproduced, streamlined product placements, spoon fed to the masses through every nook and cranny made available by the mega corporations.

On the other hand you've always got your run of the mill rebels refusing to release anything that's even been tuned properly. True blue anti-anything "musicians", happy to never make a buck as long as their bird is constantly flipped at the establishment. Music has fallen on hard times, super exposed hard times.

What makes anything interesting anymore? I'll tell you what. Emotion, sincerity and music for the sake of music, not poisoned by greed or social convictions. A group of people creating music, together. Performing, recording and designing what their hearts desire. True blue musicians playing true blue music out of sheer love for the hell of it. They are called Backwoods, want to have a listen?


- Jacob Phillips, 2006

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/08/2006
Band Website: http://www.backwoods.se
Band Members: Mats Persson - vocals and lead guitar

Andreas Anundi - drums and percussion

Oskar Selander - organ and background vocals

Nils Karlsson - guitars, harmonica and background vocals

David Konteh - bass
Influences: Opeth
Sixteen Horsepower
Tom Waits
Woven hand
Johnny Cash
Christian Kjellvander
Porcupine Tree
Danzig
Mark Knopfler

Sounds Like: Backwoods
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Rösta på Backwoods!

Vi har anmält oss till tävlingen openingact, där vinnaren får öppna för Deportees i Umeå den 11:e december. Här finns information om tävlingen: http://www.openingact.se/backwoodsBackwoods tackar för d...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:01:00 GMT

We've launched a new blog

Check this out: thebackwoodsblog.wordpress.com
Posted by on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:05:00 GMT

T-shirts for sale!

Right in time for the Umeå Fashion Wknd we have some haute couture Backwoods t-shirts left in stock. This is all that is left from a very limited batch of brown shirts with the Backwoods logo pictured...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:03:00 GMT

Release the fall!

It..s about that time of the year again. Time to get home from the beach and start listening to some music again! To set you in the right mood, we..ve prepared an EP that surely will get you in a nice...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:46:00 GMT

New songs uploaded

While spring is lurking around the corner of our part of the world, we've cleaned out our closet and rediscovered some songs that deserved to be released. Theese songs were recorded at the same time...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:48:00 GMT

In a sleepy old way

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest installment in the great Backwoods catalog. We are proud to finally, after many delays and broken promises, reveal a brand new EP. This EP is called "in a s...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Studio update

While reviewing my older blog posts, I feel that a correction is needed. Our original plan was to record several EP:s instead of a whole album. This plan was radically changed when we found out that o...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Calling Norway!

First of all, let me begin to wish all of you a happy new year. Before I come to the very point of this blog, I´ll give you a little update from camp Backwoods. A new EP will see the light of day very...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:46:00 GMT

A review from America

Backwoods is back with three new songs, and a new take on an old one. These tracks see Backwoods continuing to progress as musicians. Although they've dabbled with various experiments in the past (tra...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:15:00 GMT

A review from Norway!

I will gladly admit to having looking forward to these new songs ever since Backwoods first posted the song "Twain" on their myspace, though the excitement was equally intertwined with apprehension, a...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:30:00 GMT