"It all started with the desire to better understand America ..."

Hubert von Goisern is a go-getting man. 2014 was the Upper Austrian songwriter comes to film and exhibition on the road and has two recordings published: Once the soundtrack to the new film by Joseph Vilsmaier (Austria: Up and Down), for which he has rearranged a selection of his favorite songs from his own pen with orchestra, secondly, the sampler sounds steep, on the found a selection of alpine music from the last 150 years, which has brought together from Goisern for he curated Alpenliebe exhibition on the Grossglockner.

And now comes the Blues.

Mississippi delta, swamp, heat, alligators - and Steve Fishell. Lap steel guitar player from New Orleans, whose solos so wonderful with the accordion of the master come together, as if this combination tested and set for centuries. Von Goisern has made searching for clues in the land of (im) possibilities - and found it. In concentrated tape format with bass, drums and electric guitar that sounds so intense as would never have made von Goisern something else; and opens a new chapter in his already all sides sperrangelweit open world music sound spectrum.

With all due respect for the work to date of the man from the mountains: The 15 alpine blues numbers on "feathers" among the best of what the 61-year tradition intermediaries and folk music deconstructor has made so far.