Shit City

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By way of the critically acclaimed records God Bless Our Home from 2007 and the self-titled follow-up from 2009, in addition to hundreds of small and large gigs, Shit City has created a name for themselves on the Norwegian music scene. After a few years’ break, during which some of the members became parents, they are finally back with 12 strong rock-, country- and Americana-tunes on their third full-length album, Welcome to Shit City. Shit City still plays first-rate country rock and Americana, or “Cosmic American Music”, as Gram Parsons would call it. Through the years, many have tried their hand at this genre in Norway, but few, if any, have mastered it quite like the nine guys in Shit City from Lillehammer. The band started out with names like The Barfin’ Bacalao Brothers and Sounds From The Old Factory, but since the 2007 Spellemann music prize-nominated record, they have been known as Shit City – a name that probably more than just this band claim their copyright on. Since then, they has toured Norway from north to south, with highlights such as Down On The Farm with Gillian Welch and John Paul Jones, via Rockefeller venue in Oslo with Drive-by Truckers, to trips that almost broke up the band. Guitarist and songwriter Morten Lunde recalls: I remember us getting in the car that took us for a 2080 kilometer drive to and from Nesna in northern Norway, for the Træna festival. The trip that almost tore apart all we had of solidarity and compassion. A hardcore, sociologica

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God Bless Our Home

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Shit City

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Welcome To Shit City

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Best of 2007 Vol. 5 Driftage and Deviation

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Best of 2006 - Volume 5: Country-Rock

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Øya 2007

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《送给中国的挪威森林音乐 III》

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Sword City - WKDU

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Cosmic Norwegian Music

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Øyafestivalen 2007

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When The Rich Wage War, It Is The Poor Who Die

When The Rich Wage War, It Is The Poor Who Die INSTRUMENTALS

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