Gunnar Almqvist

I started singing and playing country at home in the sixties.

The years went by and I began singing and playing guitar with "Country Minstrels", Sweden´s oldest countryband. The leader was and is still Janne Lindgren, Sweden´s, I think
best steelguitar player. It was in 1974. It ended up 1977, when I began playing with a band called "Jumbo Jet". We played dance music. Then I was back in "Country Minstrels". 1979 - 1982. From mid 1982, I played dance music with two or three men and still do. During all the time I worked as a troubadur with country, pop, rock´n roll and Swedish songs on the repertory.

I recorded my country CD in 2004, with Janne Lindgren as a producer. A new country CD is planned. I am searching for songs now.

Before I made my country CD I began as a country troubadur. And that is what I like best now, singing the old songs that I always have been singing. But of course I do new songs too and songs of my own in Swedish.

I sing and play rhythm guitar with or without tracks and sometimes together with a solo guitar picker. Country in traditional style.