Buster Sledge

Buster Sledge’s second single from their coming release, “Warm and Stupid”, is a Sadgrass slow-dance-favorite to be enjoyed in solitude, alone onthe dance floor. At four minutes and fiftyseven seconds, there’s just about enough time to reflect on some of your most recent worst decisions.

Buster Sledge is a trio of fiddle, banjo, and guitar and of three voices - fronted by an American living in Norway - with many musics as software and bluegrass music as hardware. They offer an original repertoire of music that brings the structur0e and pop-esque melodic focus of american old-time fiddle music and lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with current harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop, jazz, or whatever seems to serve the song.

Oslo-based American-Norwegian trio Buster Sledge releases their first studio album Call Home in May 2022, following up on their self-recorded and self-released debut Spirit (2020). Fiddle, banjo, guitar and three voices are the vehicle for lyrical storytelling against an orchestral background anchored in the acoustic music traditions of the United States.

Oslo-based American-Norwegian trio Buster Sledge is newly signed with label Heilo and soon to release its first studio album Call Home in May 2022, following up on their self-recorded and self-released debut Spirit (2020). Fiddle, banjo, guitar and three voices are the vehicle for lyrical storytelling against an orchestral backdrop anchored in the acoustic music traditions of the United States.

The members of Buster Sledge - From just above the arctic circle in Bodø, Norway to sunny Turlock in Central California - despite growing up in different cultures with an ocean between them have one important thing in common: a love for playing a wide array of American music.

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