Henry Bowers has for a long time done translations of songs by people like Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and others. These songs have been performed live for a couple of years, and who knows, some day there will be studio recordings of them.
Here are a couple of video clips of some of the songs, recorded at Södermalms poetry-slam finals and the Swedish poetry-slam championship that were just recently. Henry is joined by Peter Lindholm playing the guitar in these perfomances, and is currently the one that Henry sings his translations with.
Of course you have to make a record with these songs. They sound nothing but amazing…
Keep up the good work.
/ Ricky