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TR: Yes, very, very difficult. Also, what is difficult about it is that I think luckily our albums have

become better and better. But we decided to do the first decade is one record and the second decade
is another. Especially in the second decade, it was very difficult to choose because there were so
many good songs.

BiTS: Take the first album, the first ten years.
Do you have a favourite track from that?

TR: That would probably be the one that’s
called ‘Ain’t Ever Gonna Leave No More’. I like
that.

BiTS: Why do you like that?

TR: It just sounds good. As I said before, I think
we’ve been better and better at making albums.
I think each album is getting better and better.

In the beginning, we were not so professional
about making a good sound but that particular
song, it was well done. I don’t know exactly how
to describe it and it’s actually one of the few
songs on our albums that has a harp -

harmonica. It has an acoustic guitar, and it just
has a good bluesy feel.

BiTS: Absolutely terrific stuff. Tell me about the second album, most particularly the song called
‘Same Old Lies - ‘part un’ and ‘part deux’. Why two parts? Because they’re not very long.

TR: No. And they are new songs. We wanted to have a new song on the album, and actually, I
wrote it as one song and it was not my idea to make it into two songs and I can’t even remember
how it happened. I think when you play the record, they almost sound like one song. It’s a very

short break between the two. I wrote it as one song and then some of the guys that took over the
whole process made it into two songs. Maybe it was also because of the chance of getting some
airplay. It was too long to get airplay as one song and also maybe it would be difficult to get airplay
with a very slow and long intro. So actually, we got a lot of airplay here in Denmark with ‘Same Old
Lies - part deux’, but it was actually written as one song just with the long slow intro.

BiTS: Now, over the years, you must have played in dozens of places all around the world, is there

any gig that’s particularly outstanding to you? One where you perhaps were on the stage
performing and you thought, what on Earth am I doing here?

TR: [Chuckles] One thing that stands out was definitely being on stage with Buddy Guy in Mumbai
in India. We played at the same festival, and I was invited to join Buddy Guy on the stage down
there, so that was maybe a highlight. It was very special, and I was very, very nervous because they
told me yes, you can join, and we will say when during his show. I was just standing by the stage,

and I didn’t know when I was going to be called on and I didn’t know what we were going to do and
stuff like that. But of course, it was great to be with a legend on stage and in a spectacular place
like Mumbai, India.

BiTS: Absolutely tremendous. Are you able to tour at the moment? Are you restricted still by
COVID?