Such a thing can be, at least in the long run, do not play. So is it. And Jon Flemming Olsen is exactly the same.
In 2006, he represented his country band Texas Lightning, which also belonged Dittrich, Germany in the Euro Vision Song Contest. Although the number abschmierte there, the catchy tune a gigantic hit, was ranked 1 was "No No Never" here in Germany, recorded the longest chart listing a German Song Contest dues since 1959 (!), Took a board and was also in Austria ( Place 4) and Switzerland (No. 6) in the top ten.
But Olsen was not a happy man after the success. "For me it was mostly a devastating terrible time. I have this success, unfortunately, can not really enjoy," he recently told the Hamburger Straße newspaper Hinz & Kunzt 'for their outstanding portrait titled' The Next-maker '. Too many expectations, less and less joy of music. 2009, dissolved the band and Jan Flemming Olsen put the guitar aside.
But now he is - fortunately - there again, in German. ALWAYS NEXT is the programmatic title of his first solo album, which he has on purely acoustic basis with Laurens Kils cabins (double bass) and Markus Schmidt (Banjo) added. The plate consists firstly of own songs and, secondly, from (partly quite daring) cover versions.
So is the winking opener "Karl-Heinz Schmitz" Olsens interpretation of glam rock classic "Ballroom Blitz" by The Sweet dating from 1973. Also "day that dream that I" ("Daydream" by The Lovin 'Spoonful, 1966) , "Should I stay or geh'n" ("Should I Stay Or Should I Go" by The Clash, 1982) and the infinitely sad "Not home" ("Drive" by The Cars, 1984) talk lyrically or more less closely to the respective original.
The delicious and very true, "Your Mom" ("Blame It On The Boogie" by Mick Jackson, 1978), the wonderfully melancholic "dawn" ("Golden Brown" by The Stranglers, 1982), "I see it" (" Crazy "by Gnarls Barkley, 2006) and" This will always be "(" Gentle On My Mind "by John Hartford, 1967), however, find in the Olsen versions lawless textual interpretations.
As a songwriter Jon Flemming Olsen moved like on thoughtful terrain. "Just happy", "not America", "Until the morning the darkness breaks" or "dance through the garbage" betrayed the poets and thinkers. When things musically cheerful, there is even okay ("Bad World") and even more next ("The picnickers").
Total AGAIN NEXT is a thoroughly likeable album that would feed the more than earned in the charts. Still would be time for that.
Thank you, my husband Ingo! ;-)
