In 1996, Andreas Stamnes entered the Norwegian blues scene through the legendary Norwegian blues pub Muddys Pub in Spydeberg. Despite his young age of only 16, Andreas quickly made a name for himself as a talented singer and guitarist. During the winter of 1999 he was invited to tour all over Florida with the famous blues master David C. York, better known as Rock Bottom. Andreas returned to Norway seething with inspiration and energy, and formed a group of his own: Little Andrew & The Blue Masters. They won the Union Blues Cup in 2000 and toured all over Norway throughout the millenium. Some highlights included Notodden Blues Festival, Åmål Blues Festival, Drøbak Blues Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival and many others. The rest, as they say, is history.
To back him, Little Andrew has picked among the best musicians from the Norwegian blues scene. Pål M. Dahlø on bass, Robert Skoglund on the drums and a pianoplayer as the fourth instrument. Little Andrew is known as “The uncrowned king of rock n´ blues in Norway”, he and his band are yet again ready to rumble the road.
In summer 2007, Little Andrew released his debut album “Rock Back To Bottom” which was well received both in Norway and in the US. In 2010 he released ”Loadstone”, It was nominated best blues album of the year at “Spellemannsprisen” (Norwegian Grammy Awards 2010). 2012 came along and he released his last album “Bloodrush”. It is what the name tells you, a bloodrush!
Little Andrew is a mix of the best from American music with both feets in the hearth of blues and he`s back on the road so there´s no reason to stay home
“Take my advice and check out my friend Little Andrew, and you too will pleasantly surprised!” - Kid Ramos
Bluesman & The Hammond Grooves is a bluesband from Askim, Norway. We are special happy to play gigs for a small amount people at pub as well as many people at big festivals
The band was established in 2001 in Fredrikstad and in 2003 the band played as a warming act for master guitarplayer Knut Reiersrud at the Kraftfestival in Askim Norway. After this, the band went in the studio at Høgda Soundstudio in Moss and NRK Studio in Fredrikstad and recorded own stuff and a version of Robert Johnssons Crossroads. The Crossroads song was put out on Acidplanet.com and went on to the 1 place on their blueslist, voted by fellow musicplayers. The band was put to a rest in 2004.
In the summer of 2008 Stig-Ole Skaldebø (Guitar and Vocal ) and Fritz Hunstad, Master Hammond player , met each other at a cafè in down town Askim, and decided to start up the band again. They had annoncement on net and in the local newspaper because they wanted new blood in the rythmesection. Thru this activity they found drummer Luke Holton from Australia, and Stig Adolfsen from Norway on Bass.
Mr. Bluesman & The Hammond Grooves played their first concert with the new band at Askim Kulturhus, Askim, Norway on 24.01.2009 for full house. The band booked many concerts for the spring 2009, and we played at places as Rudolf Pub ( well know bluesclub in Oslo) and Buckleys (No 1 Bluesclub in Oslo). We also played a one hour live concert at NRK, Oestfold direct on the air and was exposed on the TV news both in Oestfold and the whole Norway on NRK TV channel 1.We had our second concert in Askim Kulturhus, Askim, before christmas 2009.
Spring 2010 we had to change some of the players in the band because of sickness and other plans. New Drummer is Rune Bryn and Bassplayer Jimmy Jesultito Nielsen.
Our playinglist consist of song from Albert Collins, Robert Johnsson, Otish Rush, Dizzie Gillispie, Jmmy Hendrix, Eric Clapton and our self a.o.
Since the band consist of both jazzplayers and bluesplayers the battle against jazz and blues are always there. Much of playing is bare improvisation, and we do not play the songs as they are on records, or the same way every night. We take care of the soul of the blues, and see to so it comes from our hearts..
 | Jolly Jumper ( Kjell Inge Brovoll) Jolly Jumper, born 1965, has played the harp for many years, and you can hear Little Walter, Sonny Boy and James Cotton influence his way of blowing. He also a skilled blues singer with a strong voice plays the guitar in a very Blind Boy Fuller way. | |
 | Big Moe ( Jan Erik Moe ) Big Moe, born 1950, has played the blues guitar since the mid-60`s, at that time influenced by Buddy Guy and Freddy King. He then started playing acoustic guitar, and you can hear a lot of Lightning Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt and John Jackson in his style. Moe also plays the mandolin and the slide steel guitar and his singing sounds like Tom Waits on a happy day. |
(JT for short) is 42 years old living in Lillestrom, Norway. He began playing at the early age of 6 and pretty much immediately got interested in the Blues and related music after first hearing BB King, blues pianist Charles Brown and the legendary Ray Charles.
