TOBACCO
Tobacco calls themselves ”Denmarks best washboardband”. They are playing goodies from the American musictradition: country, blues, spirituals, ragtime, zydeco and “goddamn hillbilly”. The styles are mixed and spiced up with an energetic stage-performance, 5-voice harmonies and a rhythm pumping like an old locomotive.
The band started in 2001 and has, since then, played over 500 concerts in Denmark, Germany and Poland. Many knows Tobacco from their time as house-orchestra in the live TV-show “ZULU Late Night”, where they were performing as a backingband for famous names such as Medina, Rasmus Nøhr, Basim, Martin Brygman og Julie Berthelsen. Besides playing at numerous venues and clubs, Tobacco has also been playing large concerts at Skagenfestival, Femø Jazzfestival, Silkeborg Jazzfestival, Maribo Jazzfestival, Mariefestival, Copenhagen Bluesfestival, Copenhagen Jazzfestival og Fox Tail Festival.
Tobacco has released three albums – the latest...

TOBACCO
Tobacco calls themselves ”Denmarks best washboardband”. They are playing goodies from the American musictradition: country, blues, spirituals, ragtime, zydeco and “goddamn hillbilly”. The styles are mixed and spiced up with an energetic stage-performance, 5-voice harmonies and a rhythm pumping like an old locomotive.
The band started in 2001 and has, since then, played over 500 concerts in Denmark, Germany and Poland. Many knows Tobacco from their time as house-orchestra in the live TV-show “ZULU Late Night”, where they were performing as a backingband for famous names such as Medina, Rasmus Nøhr, Basim, Martin Brygman og Julie Berthelsen. Besides playing at numerous venues and clubs, Tobacco has also been playing large concerts at Skagenfestival, Femø Jazzfestival, Silkeborg Jazzfestival, Maribo Jazzfestival, Mariefestival, Copenhagen Bluesfestival, Copenhagen Jazzfestival og Fox Tail Festival.
Tobacco has released three albums – the latest is a live-album from 2017, recorded at Kayak Bar during Copenhagen Blues Festival. Bluesnews.dk wrote this about the CD: “Tobaccco På Kajen is a real live-album – the sound is raw and unpolished and the album vibrates with live feeling. Tobacco has huge energy, often in an incredible tempo, with fine instrumental performances from the band members on the way. It is a party hearing the energetic coplaying between banjo, washboard, piano, guitar, double bass etc. And the record give a good documentation of what must have been a splendid concert at Kayak Bar in the middle of Copenhagen”.
Tobacco are playing music from when their grandmom was are really naughty one. You never know what will happen when they enter the stage because their concerts are always very spontaneous, full of energy and improvisation....

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