Flying Norwegians - 1974 - New Day

Flying Norwegians

1974

New Day

01. Young Man 3:58

02. Time's Drawing Circles 3:41

03. Those Were The Days 4:15

04. Lucky Number 3:27

05. New Day 5:57

06. Behind The Words 3:56

07. Spanish Tragedy 3:22

08. Tricky Lies 3:06

09. Human Need 2:50

10. You'll Come Around 6:00

11. It Ain't Just Another Blow 2:24

Bass – Johannes Torkelsen

Drums – Gunnar Bergstrøm

Pedal Steel Guitar – Harald Dyb (tracks: B2, B6)

Vocals, Guitar – Cato Sanden

Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica – Rune Walle

Vocals, Keyboards – Jarle Zimmermann

Recorded in Oslo June / July, 1974.

New Day - the debut album from Flying Norwegians is the first truly remarkable country rock album from Norway. It’s the first album to be convincingly good in a genre that we believed, until 1974, to solely be the domain of American artists with mud on their boots and whiskey on their person.

The band, which was given the self-evident name Flying Norwegians, can be traced back to the end of the 1960s. Rune Walle met Nina Johansen at a People’s College outside of Bergen and together they formed Oriental Sunshine. They released one LP in 1970, considered a classic, in which they fuse oriental soundscapes with folk music traditions. Two years later, Walle found himself in another pioneering band: Hole in the Wall. This band mixed the sounds of both American rock and country with Norwegian folk music tonality, creating an album considered to be one of the very best to ever have been made in Norway.