Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
International relevance: **
Featured on ”Who Will Buy These
Wonderful Evils Volume 4,” 1974 single 'A' side ”Förståelse”
is Gin & Grappo's best known song. It's a catchy little track,
taking cues from The Rolling Stones classic ”Sympathy for the
Devil”. Gin & Grappo released two more singles plus two full
length albums, the first one being self released in 1973.
For their second LP, they scored a deal
with CBS, confusingly enough eponymous just like their debut. The
1975 albu features eleven tracks, nine of them written by Janne Goldman (the Gin half of the duo, with Bo Johansson being Grappo),
with a couple of lyrics penned by Anders Klintevall, at the time host
for Swedish radio show Tonkraft. The songs are half decent, not
particularly good, not particularly bad but not particularly exciting
either. Most of them are in a 'soft-rock with an edge' mould with a
couple of them displaying a slight country tinge thanks to steel
guitarist Jan Lindgren. The performances are competent utilizing the
talents of well-known studio musicians and seasoned performers such
as skilled piano player Per-Erik Hallin (the Swedish Christian Elton
John of the 70's), percussionist Malando Gassama and back-up singer
Agneta Gilstig whose main claim to fame is releasing an album with
Vatten's Thomas Ernvik in 1980. The best track is probably album
closer ”Så många människor” (ironically one of the two
non-Goldmann compositions).
Goldmann later embarked on a solo
career releasing a couple of albums and several 45's, occassionally
with his backing band Rock Und Roll Gruppe. Bo Johansson appeared on
a couple of Goldman albums and wrote ”Christine” for Swedish
Traveling Wilburys styled supergroup Grymlings (featuring among
others Pugh Rogefeldt, Mats Ronander and Göran Lagerberg formerly of Tages, Kebnekajse et al).
Full album playlist
Full album playlist
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