Greta (guitars\/banjo\/vocals) and Stella Bondesson (electric bass\/double bass\/vocals) began their careers alongside their father, Jan\u00e5ke Bondesson (drums\/harmonica\/vocals), in the rockabilly band Slaptones in 1999. Sunniva (guitars\/vocals) was the youngest of the sisters and joined in 2003. The band released two albums, \u201cSimplify\u201d (2003) and \u201cAmplify\u201d (2004). Slaptones took a long hiatus when the sisters formed Baskery in 2006\u2014a band that is also performing at this year\u2019s Dark Season Blues (see separate article)\u2014but they have reunited, in part to honor the blues audience in Longyearbyen. <\/p>\n\n
\u201cSlaptones plays rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and rhythm \u2019n\u2019 blues the way it sounded before The Beatles and covers songs by Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, John D. Loudermilk, Mose Allison, Carl Perkins, Willie Dixon, Eddie Cochran, Muddy Waters, and Otis Rush,\u201d wrote Aftonbladet about the band in 2003. <\/p>\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve never heard most of these songs in their original versions. Nor has it ever been our goal to play them that way. That\u2019s why they sound like our own. Dad has heard them, but we haven\u2019t,\u201d Greta says in the interview.
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