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Rag-And-Bone

Rag-And-Bone
Band from Malmö, Sweden founded by Mats Nilsson 2005.

Mats Nilsson was born in the woods outside Örkelljunga in the northern parts of Skåne, Sweden. He ended up in Malmö via Ängelholm and Stockholm where he had signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music. After fronting a number of different bands as a singer, he started playing acoustic guitar properly and started writing songs for a future album. At that moment Rag-And-Bone was born. - Rag-And-Bone-men gathered stuff that other people had thrown away as junk and fixed it back up again. And that’s sort of my concept with Rag-and-Bone, I take music that has been thrown away and mold it into something new. Hopefully with a new energy to it, says Mats. Th e throw-away music in this case being old delta blues, country, gospel, bluegrass and diff erent kinds of folk music that he was influenced by and added his own arrangements and drive to. If the music can be described as old roots music, replanted, the same can be said about the debut album. Recorded by Pontus Snibb at Admiral Street Recordings on his portable s udio, basically consisting of a laptop computer and a pair of mikes. And of course the fellow musicians whose services Mats has enlisted. Quite a number of friends dropped by the mobile recording studio along the way.

Rag-and-Bone have have played over a hundred gigs in Sweden (and Denmark) and have been supporting artist s like Little Feat (US), Kevin Montgomery (US), Al Perkins (US) and Thorsten Flinck (SWE) through the years.

In 2007 Mats represented Sweden at the Emergenza Acoust ic Showcase in Munich, Germany and in 2009 Rag-and-Bone (featuring Chris Corney) made a small tour of England.

The debut album was released in 2007 on the Musicspot label.

In 2009 Mats Nilsson signed a distribution deal with Plugged Music.

The album “Novice Pioneer” featuring Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites), Warner E Hodges (Jason & the Scorchers), Guy Griffin (Quireboys), Esbjörn Hazelius (Ale Möller), Jalle Lorentsson (Wilmer X) and Pontus Snibb (Bonafide) among others was released in 2010.

Mats Nilsson - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Twelve-string Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Theremin Johan Malmberg - Fiddle, Banjo, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals Lars Magnusson - Upright Bass, Electric Bass, Mandolin, Backing Vocals David Svedberg - Drums

Discography: Rag-And-Bone (CD) 2007. Möllevångsfestivalen - Av folket för Folket. (Compelation CD) 2007. Novice Pioneer (CD) 2010.