acoustic bluesperformers svante sjöblom and the sailors are dedicated to the prewar-blues, following the tradition of skip james, son house, charlie patton and 'mississippi' john hurt among others.

for his devoted interpretation of american folkmusic and blues from the early decades of 1900, svante sjöblom was rewarded with swedish bluesman fjellis’ bluesprize in 2004. He has also been rewarded åmål bluesfestival's bluesprize.

the committee of mönsterås bluesfestival on svante sjöblom:
“a twenty year old guitarist & singer from sweden, who has approached the great bluesmasters with his deep voice, national steel and a certain authority”

let's get down to it.


svante sjöblom
vocal, national steel & acoustic guitars

jonas håkansson
upright bass & occational hollering

samuel andersson
harmonica & off-pitch shouting


releaseparty 21/2 -08 at 20.00 hrs. welcome to plockepinn, malmö!

buy the album "I guess my troubles just begun" here

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                                                  svante sjöblom
                                                  jonas håkansson