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Kreg Viesselman
12+ albums
scandinavianbluesnordicAllnorwegian
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Kreg Viesselman was born in Wells, Minnesota and currently lives in Oslo, Norway. Recordings: "The Pull" Red Kite Records, 2006 "Kreg Viesselman" Self-released, 2003 "Many Rivers" PME Records, 2000 (out of print) Other Appearances: "Hold Me Up To the Light" (Peter Wilde Tribute), various artists "This Great Land", PME Records, by David Gilligan "Remembering Achilles", by David Gilligan "The Good, The Bad, and the Red Glory Ramblers", by Danny Shafer ‘one of the few albums which warrants the listener hanging onto the artist’s every word…..an incisive writer who uses dazzling imagery’ - ***** maverick magazine ‘rarely does a talent so exceptional and unique come along, this man deserves to be heard…’ - blues matters, uk "elemental songwriting...it's clear that viesselman knows how to craft moving acoustic music" - westword, denver, colorado The first thing you notice about Kreg Viesselman is his voice. That such a powerful and visceral sound should come from this quiet, unassuming Minnesotan is initially surprising, but then you begin to listen to what he’s singing. Songs like you just didn’t think they made anymore, or maybe never did; songs written in a language so raw and bare that they touch you as if brushing against open nerves; songs that are at once ageless and pleasingly difficult to classify. "Viesselman’s songs have a sage, hardened pathos that’s hardly pretty boy stuff. Silvery, potent lines that ar
