Peps Persson (born 20 December 1946 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish blues and reggae musician from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he has mostly made music in Swedish and is well known for his Scanian dialect. At an earlier stage he made a few albums in English.
Persson's career up to 1975 was mostly inspired by the blues, and he's known for having reworked many famous blues and reggae tunes into Swedish, by such artists as Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Bob Marley.[1]
After 1975, his career turned away from the blues and focused mostly on reggae. Some of his songs, like "Falsk ma ...read more
Peps Persson (born 20 December 1946 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish blues and reggae musician from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he has mostly made music in Swedish and is well known for his Scanian dialect. At an earlier stage he made a few albums in English.
Persson's career up to 1975 was mostly inspired by the blues, and he's known for having reworked many famous blues and reggae tunes into Swedish, by such artists as Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Bob Marley.[1]
After 1975, his career turned away from the blues and focused mostly on reggae. Some of his songs, like "Falsk matematik" and "Hög standard", made a political statement, and were considered part of the progg movement.
Discography
Studio albums
1968 – Blues Connection (as Linkin Louisiana Peps)
1969 – Sweet Mary Jane (with Blues Quality)
1972 – The Week Peps Came to Chicago (with Peps Bluesband)
1974 – Blodsband (with Peps Blodsband)
1975 – Hög standard (with Peps Blodsband)
1975 – Blues på svenska (with Slim = Per Notini)
1976 – Droppen urholkar stenen (with Peps Blodsband)
1976 – Den ensamma människan (with Ronny Åström)
1977 – Fyra tunnlann bedor om dan (with Pelleperssons Kapell)
1978 – Spår (with Peps Blodsband)
1980 – Rotrock (with Peps Blodsband and Pelleperssons Kapell)
1982 – Persson sjonger Persson (with Pelleperssons Kapell)
1984 – En del och andra
1988 – Fram med pengarna! (with Peps Blodsband)
1992 – Spelar för livet (with Peps Blodsband)
1994 – Röster från Södern (with Nisse Hellberg)
1997 – Rotblos (with Downhome Bluesband)
2005 – Äntligen! (with Peps Blodsband)
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