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”Always a gentle mandolin or fiddle in the background, the band creates a kind of laidback atmosphere that easily brings a picture of a big margarita to my mind...”

“Crossing Lanes is a mixed bag of country, folk and americana music but one of the sort that pleases the ear!”

“They give us a number of catchy songs which seems to be especially arranged for singing-evenings around the flickering campfire.”
-Mr. Blue Boogie

“This Swedish quintet keeps the warm vocal candor of a singer-songwriter act (the group's original approach), but livens that up with the shiny fiddles and mountain pickin' of bluegrass. It's a hugely inviting mix that gives us all the campfire glow without the ‘ dueling banjos’ ."
-Download.com

Little green gets their own sound through their wide range of influences and a fair amount of disrespect for tradition. The lyrics are usually quite dark and brooding, and reek with ”swedish melancholy”. The music however, is often stirring and catchy with simple but effective vocal harmony. Some of their influences are: Darrell Scott, Tim O´Brien, The Greencards, Buddy Miller, Dixie chicks, Steve Earle and Neil Young.

Little green was formed by Thomas Pontén (mandolin, guitars and vocals) and Andreas Johannesson (Lead-vocals and guitar) in Gothenburg. At first in more of a Singer/songwriter-style but they gradually transformed into a country/bluegrass-act. Soon they felt the duoformat to be a bit limiting and they brought in other musicians with Thomas and Andreas remaining as core members. Other members are Karl Wassholm (bass), Fred Sörensson (fiddle) and Johan Hjalmarsson (drums).

The band performs about 25 shows a year, and has reached the finals in the swedish championships of country-music for two years straight. 2006 they participated in the alt country-genre and in 2007 in bluegrass. In december 2008 they embarked on a joint release-tour in Scandinavia with LA-musician, and bassplayer with Shooter Jennings, Ted Russell Kamp. In january 2009 they played The Royal concert hall in Glasgow at the Celtic connections and in february the same year they threw a sold out releaseparty in Gothenburg.

Little greens album “Crossing lanes” was released on the Rootsy-label 12/11 /2008. The Record has been very well recieved with great reviews in Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. It has also generated a lot of airplay in these countries but have also been played in UK and France.

Contact:
Thomas Pontén
Älvsborgsgatan 19
414 72 Göteborg
+46705213224
Mail: little.green@spray.se
Website: www.myspace.com/littlegreenswe