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Tiger City Jukes
Foto: Per Ole Hagen (offisiell nettside, tigercityjukes.com)
Blues Rock

Tiger City Jukes

• Norway• Active: 1995–
Blues RockContemporary Blues

High-energy Norwegian blues-rock band from Horten, formed 1995, known for a dark, genre-bending sound and a reputation built on live performance.

Instruments
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums
from
Horten, Norway
Tiger City Jukes was formed in Horten, Norway in 1995 by Knut Eide and Harald Stokke, setting out to "create a sound of their own" beyond straightforward blues (Source: official site). The band recorded six albums between 1997 and 2019, moving from blues-rooted material toward darker, more experimental territory that one reviewer described as sitting "somewhere in between The Doors and Kurt Weill" (Source: official site). They toured Florida in 1999 and have played regularly across Norway, Europe and the USA since forming (Source: Norwegian Wikipedia). Original bassist André Vrolijk died in 2008; Atle Rakvaag joined on bass the following year, and the band has built its reputation chiefly as a high-energy live act, documented on the 2002 live album "Dressed To Kill" and the 2019 concert film "Live i Artilleriverkstedet," recorded at Horten's old naval artillery workshop with an expanded nine-piece lineup (Source: official site; Norwegian Wikipedia). The current touring quartet is Knut Eide (lead vocals, guitar), Harald Stokke (guitar, backing vocals), Atle Rakvaag (bass, backing vocals) and Espen Moen (drums) (Source: official site).

Musical Influence

Tiger City Jukes has spent three decades pushing Norwegian blues toward darker, genre-blending rock territory while staying rooted in the live-band tradition, becoming one of the country's longest-running touring blues-rock acts (Source: official site).

Formative experiences

  • •1995: Formed in Horten by Knut Eide and Harald Stokke (Source: official site).
  • •1999: Toured Florida (Source: Wikipedia).
  • •2004: Briefly became "Tiger City Jukes and The Jukettes" with backing vocalists Linda Kvam and Henriette Myhre (Source: Wikipedia).
  • •2008: Original bassist André Vrolijk died (Source: official site).
  • •2009: Atle Rakvaag joined on bass (Source: official site).
  • •2019: Recorded the concert film "Live i Artilleriverkstedet" with an expanded nine-piece lineup (Source: official site).

Collaborators

Morten Andersen

Photographer, official images.

Birthe Carlsen

Photographer, concert photos.

Watch & Listen

Henter videoer fra YouTube…

Press & quotes

"Tiger City Jukes! Er det mulig å bli så samspilte?! Hva skal man si, det finnes ikke nok superlativer!!"
Carin Urdahl-Aasen · Critic — BluesNews nr. 87

Discography

YearTitleProducerStudioLabelChartSalesMusiciansYouTubeNotes
1995High Temperature——————Source: Wikipedia.
1997White Line Fever——————Source: Wikipedia.
1999Ride In Style——————Source: Wikipedia.
2001Sex, Money & Violence——————Source: Wikipedia.
2002Dressed To Kill - Live——————Source: Wikipedia.
2013Moonlight Crying——————Source: Wikipedia.
2019Live i Artilleriverkstedet——————Concert film with expanded lineup, recorded in Horten. Source: official site.

External links

Official website

Booking / Contact

Booking agency
Not publicly available
Agent/management
Knut Eide
Booking phone
+47 90 72 48 42

Kontaktinformasjon hentet direkte fra offisiell nettside.

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Sources

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