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Ledfoot came into existence in 2006, when Tim Scott McConnell (an American guitarist and singer-songwriter living in Norway for more than 30 years) put together the different techniques from over 40 years of playing with The Rockats (starting out in 1980, debuting on the live-album ‘Live At The Ritz’ on Island Records) and TheHavalinas (which he co-founded with Smutty Smiff and Chalo Quintana [ex-Social Distortion], and whose self-titled debut album was released in 1990 on Elektra Records). After his Rockats and Havalinas periods he also released five albums under his own name, on labels such as Sire Records (‘Swear’, 1983), Geffen (‘High Lonesome’, 1985) and Warner Music (‘Deceivers & Believers’, 1995).
As Ledfoot he combined a 12-string guitar with steel fingerpicks, a brass slide, open tunings, very heavy strings, and a stomp box. Mixing this with a dark lyrical and melodic sense, he dubbed it ‘Gothic Blues’, a sound close to the murder ballad tradition. Since then, Ledfoot has released six solo albums (his fourth and last one,‘White Crow’ and ‘Coffin Nails’, were both awarded with the Norwegian Grammy for best Blues Album Of 2019 and 2022) and toured the whole of Europe many times.
Tracklist
Thunder And Rain
Destiny
Dead Is Dead
Turn Me Into You
I Do Believe
I’m The Outsider
Old Brown Bar
Better Side
Here In My Head