The last time I wrote about the musical adventurer Peter Lindström, he had just been out on a 3 month long tour in the USA. And this time he has recently returned from an even longer journey with concerts in Japan, Nya Zeeland and Australia.

He also has a new album to show us, “Petrel Petering”, which I thought I could present here in this post. It’s an 11 track long album, where he continues to explore the classic american singer/songwriter music. Add to this some blues and country songs like “Jesus’ Blood Ain’t Failed Me Yet”, a great track which almost gives me an impression like it’s Bowie singing Jaques Brel with country sound.

Peter has that kind of voice that makes it’s way inside of me. There is a warmth, a nerve and a precense that feels very real. With his story in the back of my mind, it gets even more interesting. Listen for yourself in a couple of tracks from “Petrel Petering”:

Gospel
Jesus’ Blood Ain’t Failed Me Yet

Peter Lindströms site, Peter Lindström on Myspace

Peter Lindström is a true music soul. I have a feeling that he breathes and eats music in some kind of way. Feelings that are streamed out to us through the music, and everything he does is about this. That’s my illusion about Peter anyway.

Maybe you have heard him before, if you are following this blog, as the voice Welkin, in Welkin and the Jangler. But a music nomad like Peter creates music in other ways too, this time as a solo artist.
Here you’ll meet a more basic singer/songwriter, with nice guitar playing, but also with Rhodes piano as in the wonderful “Baby Blue”. You can listen to three tracks here, and I should mention that he gets some help by Julia Bryngelsson, in “Now That I’m Free”.

Last spring Peter went on a US tour solo, and during two months he performed on all kind of places across the US. A tour that has both excited him and shaken him, a trip of both discomfort and joy. He has promised to write a book about his US adventures, and hopefully this man of words and music will write his book through a blog soon. This is how he writes after a few weeks on tour (translated from Swedish):

“After four gigs on this two months long but eternal tour, I became sick. With a fever and a cold and everything, I have been imprisoned in a hotel room on the outskirts of Atlantic City, for almost three days. Absecon, New Jersey. Here’s nothing to do unless you’re a prostitute, if you’re a john or if you’re offering hotel rooms for these people. I’m getting better now in any case, which is comforting since I’m supposed to bend some strings in the capital tomorrow night. So far the response has been incredible, and it’s been a while since I’ve felt so excited to get out and sing my songs to people. The records are selling but, believe it or not, the money is hard to hold on to. But then again, spending three days too close to Atlantic City may not be so wise.”

Baby Blue
Alyantic City
Now That I’m Free

Visit Peter on Myspace

“Phony Baloney” (Austin TX, 4/28 -08)