>>> Country bluegrass <<<

The Preacher Men were formed mid 2013 as a good excuse to hang out on a regular basis and drink. After seeing Belgian award winning film The Broken Circle Breakdown in the cinema, they decided to play country music. None of them knew anything about country or bluegrass, but that minor detail was quickly flushed away with a drop (or two) of whisky. The Preacher Men's repertoire now ranges from country classics and more obscure gems to originals - not bluegrass with virtuoso precision but a truckload of raw acoustic energy. The band play a variety of banjos, guitars and other stringed instruments and all sing as if their lives depend on it. There's one rule in the band and one rule only: no happy songs.



Boer Stef: lead vocals, chainbox
Bram Ghyoot: guitar, backing vocals
Remco Houtman-Janssen: banjo, mandolin, steelguitar, backing vocals
Kurt Lefevre: guitar, backing vocals
Jan Vereecken: banjo, ukulele, harmonica, backing vocals
Dieter Verkest: double bass

Contact:
thepreachermencountry@gmail.com

Online lessons with original recordings from the modern masters of bluegrass.

Sundahl’s songs are soft, sing-song forays into the apologetics of everyday life; often menacing and rhythmic, sometimes light as the down on a child’s neck. He makes indie folk and psychedelic pop, sprinkled with the tired yarns of a singer-songwriter who only ever remembers half of the story and invents the rest out of necessity. It was that or furthering a career in the service industry.

Sten Sundahl started out as a songwriter detailing the raucous life he led as a drink slinger in Ghent, Belgium’s nightlife. A lotta ups during the weekend, mainly downs during the week: an untenable path from which he nevertheless didn’t err, despite his cardiologist’s admonishments. Seen through this prism, his current attempt to break into the music industry is more a yearning for normalcy than a necessary step in his creative transcendence. 

Forget endless raves, jaw-clenching champagne slurpers and endless talk of the next big plan to the sound of click-clacking credit cards. Enter raw carrot sticks with tinned mackerel on toast, hypertension medication at bedtime and being a supportive father. Good, clean livin’ is much more tantalizing to cannibalize in search of a great song.

That isn’t to say that Sundahl’s sound is somehow pedestrian or easy to pinpoint. He greatly admires and tries to emulate the tenderness and soft-spoken resolution of Kate Stables’ This Is The Kit. In the past, his lyrical economy has been compared to a minimalist Nick Drake. His music contrasts the misanthropic ramblings of an early Eels with the psychedelic silliness of a Devendra Banhart or a Mac Demarco. All this he brings together with a self-deprecation reminiscent of Timber Timbre or, when Sundahl’s feeling particularly full of himself, Thom Yorke’s firebrand sermons. 

Flanked by his stalwart companions Serge Hertoge (Liz Aku / Vincent Starwaver) on guitar and Linard Van den Bossche (LINARD / The Father, The Son And The Holy Simon) on keys, Sundahl has spent the last two years working on a debut album. The first six songs are available. More tracks soon to come.

vocalist sings a mix of blues and early jazz in trio format with his musical friends
(for example Jakob Haghebaert guitar, Olivier Vander Baudewede bluesharp or in the Nederlands with Theo De Koning guitar and Gait Klein Kromhof bluesharp)

violist van geboorte (of het scheelt niet veel) en daarbij de mandoline opgepikt rond mijn 20ste. Buiten de klassieke zee, zwem ik even graag in andere wateren zoals pop (weliswaar al een tijdje geleden), blues, bluegrass, enz.

Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3 are a roots band from Belgium. We play a mix of western swing, R&B, swing jazz, gospel, americana and country blues. Follow us on http://www.littlekim.be

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