| Baskery | |
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Baskery performing at the 2010 Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | Alt. country, Folk rock |
| Years active | 2006 – present |
| Labels | Veranda Independent Records Glitterhouse Records Blue Rose Records |
| Associated acts | The Slaptones |
| Website | http://www.baskery.com/ |
| Members | |
| Greta Bondesson Stella Bondesson Sunniva Bondesson |
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Baskery is a Swedish blues/southern rock band, comprising the three sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson. Their first album, Fall Among Thieves, was released in Europe in 2008, and in the UK in January 2009.
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The band formed in 2006[1] as an offshoot of The Slaptones, who featured their father Janåke Bondesson on drums, released two albums (Simplify, 2003, and Amplify, 2004) and toured the USA with The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
Baskery released an EP, One Horse Down, in 2007 on Veranda Independent Records.[2] Their first album, Fall Among Thieves, was recorded with producer Lasse Mårtén using no overdubs and mainly first or second takes, with the aim of capturing as much energy as possible. It was released in Sweden in May 2008; in Norway, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy in autumn 2008; and in the UK in January 2009.
In 2008 the group toured and played festivals in the USA, Canada, France, Ireland, Denmark and Norway, and are undertaking a tour of the UK with Seth Lakeman in early 2009.[3]
The group have described their musical style in such terms as "killbilly" and "mud-country", and they have been compared with The Dixie Chicks, The Roches, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Favourable reviews have included descriptions including "absurdly wonderful...[they] do their own thing with a glee which, coupled with no little virtuosity and runaway vivaciousness, is irresistible." (Colin Irwin, Mojo)[4]