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because rhythm and blues people have been playing that for over 100 years,

of course because it's such a wonderful genre also. But we try to always bring

something new to the table in a scene that is rather traditional and

astounding, but we try to add always some original and authentic features
in it, and I think we succeed there. It's all original songs. I write my own

music; I write my own lyrics.

BiTS: Tell me something about your songwriting. Do you have ideas for lyrics

to start off with and then put melodies to them, or what happens?

DS: For me, it’s very important that we don't do cliches, that we try to be

original and authentic. All the music and the songwriting that I do is from

personal experiences, personal things that we experience in life and that

makes it fun. But I do always like to use my words, my lyrics, in a way that

anyone could put his own meaning to the lyrics. So I like to write my lyrics

like a poem. Not too obviously and keep a little bit of mystique around the

lyrics. So I like that.

When it comes down to music, as apart from lyrics, I try to always have a

good hook, a good blues riff which is recognisable and typical for that one

song and then we’ve got to arrange the song with some good drums, some
good bass and make it catchy, make it danceable. What is always very

important for Doghouse Sam & His Magnatones is that we try to tell a story.