ALBUM REVIEW: From Sweden with Love: Jesper Lindell’s Take on Classic Southern Soul On ‘Royal’
In 2024 Jesper Lindell and his band, The Brunnsvik Sounds, trekked from Sweden to the U.S. to record covers of classic American soul music. Over four action-packed days, they visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama and Royal Studios in Memphis. The result was a pair of exhilarating
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In 2024 Jesper Lindell and his band, The Brunnsvik Sounds, trekked from Sweden to the U.S. to record covers of classic American soul music. Over four action-packed days, they visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama and Royal Studios in Memphis. The result was a pair of exhilarating nine-track albums, both running about a half-hour, that do the performers proud.
3614 Jackson Highway, documenting the Muscle Shoals sessions, was released earlier this year. Now Royal wraps up the story. A captivating labor of love, this entertaining set doesn’t seek to reinvent or surpass its sources, but refreshes a familiar, deceptively diverse style of music, mixing big hits and more obscure tunes. If southern soul, a well-seasoned blend of R&B and country, has always been hard to pin down, it’s no easier to define after these savvy interpretations.
