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Roffe Wikström is a Swedish blues artist. Born in Sweden Roffe Wikströmis considered to be among Sweden’s finest blues guitarists, Rolf Wikström has recorded almost 20 albums in a career that began in the mid-70s. He hardly matches the preferred image of the bluesman - tall and blonde with a middle-class background including a stint as an economist - yet his records tell a different story. That story began as a child when he borrowed his first guitar from his uncle and practiced solos he heard on the radio. However, it was only when a television repairman visited that he was informed that he had been playing a totally untuned guitar. Having re-learned the instrument he bought his first guitar, a Fenton Vail, at the age of 14, which he played through a battery-driven radio that served as his amplifier. In his late teens he joined a Stockholm blues band. Such was this group’s legendary capacity for alcohol intake, that they were credited with ending the long-held Swedish tradition of supplying bar bands with free beer. Inspired by Jimmy Page, Wikström then purchased lighter banjo strings for his guitar to give it a distinctive tonal quality and embarked on solo recordings, beginning in 1975 with Sjung Svenska Folk (Sing Swedes!). Since then he has broadened his repertoire from raw, primal blues to encompass ballads and jazz flourishes. He has carved out a successful career in a country noted for the keen reception it affords high quality blues, though in truth he has not b
Mississippi
Som vattnet flyter i floden
All That Blues From Sweden! Volume 2
Som Vattnet Flyter I Floden (1)
Som Vattnet Flyter I Floden (2)

Starka Band
Som vattnet flyter i floden 1972-1992 cd 1
Blues är allt jag har
Nej Till EU
Hjärtslag- Bluesman
Som vatten flyter i floden 1972-1992 cd 2
Bluesman