In an in-depth analysis of the concept of developing country as a musical genre, banjo player Erlend Seilskjær, explains why this music has yet to see a commercial and artistic breakthrough:

- We aim at both hillbillies and intellectuals, but it’s hard to find venues and settings were both groups meet in search for common musical entartainment. The traditional country-loving audience do not share our values and on the other side the academics don’t like country music. This, of course, creates a huge barrier on our way to success.

Read more at bistandsaktuelt.no (Norwegian only)

The five-track EP has finally been made available for the public to enjoy! We are working hard to make our new webshop to work properly – until then: Just send an e-mail to Peggy Sue to make arrangements on getting the CD! You may also enjoy Bretton Woods music on the bands MySpace-site.

The EP will be available from this website in a few days as a physical CD (price: approx. NOK 50.00) and as a digital download (price: donation).

Today Bretton Woods played at Fokus Contact Conference, and guess who was also invited – Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development. Last year we played at three different gigs where Solheim was invited as well, but he always left before we arrived and we never got to play him Zero Point Nine.

Today, however, we were closer than ever before. According to his schedule, he spoke until 09.15 AM – we were backstage gazing at Erlends new banjo – but when we arrived on stage at 09.40 AM, Solheim was long gone. He’s definitely avoiding us.
So far it is Erik Solheim: 4 Bretton Woods: 0. But one day, we’ll sing for you, Solheim, we won’t give up.