{"id":28629,"date":"2012-10-13T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.svalbardblues.com\/dsb\/artists\/steinar-albrigtsen-and-monika-nordli\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:08:16","slug":"steinar-albrigtsen-and-monika-nordli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.svalbardblues.com\/en\/dsb\/artists\/steinar-albrigtsen-and-monika-nordli\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinar Albrigtsen and Monika Nordli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Steinar Albrigtsen\u2019s debut album, *Alone Too Long*, sold a sensational 180,000 copies 31 years ago. Now he\u2019s back on Dark Season Blues alongside his wife and musical partner, Monika Nordli.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1980s, Steinar toured Northern Norway under the pseudonym Stoney Albright, and he released the cassette *Stoney Plays The Blues* in 1985. But his official album debut was a pure country record. Since then, he has alternated between blues and country, with a touch of jazz and rockabilly. His most recent album to date, \u201cThe Daily Blues,\u201d a commissioned work for the Notodden Blues Festival\u2019s 30th anniversary in 2017, is a tribute to the greatest blues artists of all time. Monika Nordli, from Telemark, made her album debut with \u201cMinor Mode\u201d in 2005. In 2014, she and Steinar released the album \u201cSjelevenn\u201d together, and in concert they perform both joint songs and highlights from their respective careers\u2014spiced with humor and gentle melancholy. Joining them on stage is \u00d8ivind Madsen on bass.      <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#f4f4f4;font-size:12px\"><strong>  Dark Season Blues\u00a92021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Steinar Albrigtsen og Monika Nordli - Sjelevenn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCEnyDABtfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steinar Albrigtsen\u2019s debut album, *Alone Too Long*, sold a sensational 180,000 copies 31 years ago. Now he\u2019s back on Dark Season Blues alongside his wife and musical partner, Monika Nordli. In the 1980s, Steinar toured Northern Norway under the pseudonym Stoney Albright, and he released the cassette *Stoney Plays The Blues* in 1985. 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