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We've put the backing tracks down for three new songs, "Devil In Her Soul", "Passion" and "Texas Wind".

Three groovy, riffy rockers that we all enjoyed immensely recording. Drums, bass, some rhythm guitars, keyboards and grand piano were laid down during the first two days and today is a big day for Robbo with rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar and some fills and lead work.
Tomorrow we will have Leif Sundin in, to do the vocals and Friday is set for overdubs and quick rough mixes … then it's time for a break over Christmas.

Last day today will see us through lead guitars and rough mixes and hopefully lead to a couple of days rest over Christmas.

Lead vocals were taken care of yesterday and it's starting to sound really great. Look out for "Passion" as it has very strong commercial potential and mixed in the right way could easily become material for rock radio stations.

With a little luck we should be able to carry on with the next session in the beginning of February, next year.

This will give us some time to choose from our big bag of goodies.

We think that you will be impressed with what the Wee Man has stashed away over the years.

It's time to let these beautiful songs be heard with proper updated production and all under the name of Brian Robertson.

All of us, Ian, Nalle, Leif, Linnéa, Robbo, Ulf, Lennart, Karin and Sören wish you all a very Merry Christmas and we're looking forward to keep on rocking in 2009.

The third session is now complete and it is just sounding better and better.

We started in January and recorded "Do It Till We Drop", "Blues Boy" and "Linger My Love" which were great, but it felt like it was very much on a standard level for Robbo.

Session No.2 in October with Leif Sundin (MSG) on vocals took everything up to a higher level with "Mail Box", "It's Only Money" and "That's All" and we all felt that we were on the right track and wanted to carry on as soon as possible.

The Third Session done this week was unfortunately a little bit rushed as we had no rehearsal time and the boys didn't really have any chance to hear the songs before we entered the studio.

We lost one day, down to rehearsing and rewriting the songs but it came out quite good.

"Devil In My Soul", "Passion" and "Texas Wind" were tracks that Robbo had in mind for The Hellfire Club in the late Eighties, but they have been brought up to a modern standard with our rhythm section of Ian Haugland (Europe) and Nalle Påhlsson (Treat).

With keyboards and piano laid down by Robbo and producer Chris Laney and lots of guitars by Robbo, it now sounds great and I am willing to say that it is the best session we've done so far. There's still some backing vocals missing by Robbo and Linnea Helgé as well as some percussion by Ian, but we have definitely hit something here.

We have to make firm plans with Linnea Helgé to finish all the backing vocals with Robbo during the final sessions.

Some of you will think that it has taken Robbo twenty-five years to complete a solo album … and whether you're right or wrong, I can tell you that it will be worth the wait.

This is going to be a serious album.

2008 has been a great year for me working with Robbo and I just want to say "Thank You!" to all the people involved.

From the musicians and technicians involved in the studio to all you guys at the Rock Legend Forum and journalists like Dave Ling and Jorgen Hölmstedt who have been very supportive all the way through. And to Michael Johansson who has been documenting progress for a long time.

Not to forget all the wonderful people at Luthmans, Ingolf and all the crew at Sweden Rock Festival and Annie our massage specialist.

Our next recording session is planned for February and will include some serious mixes of the best tracks to start pushing the album out to the right labels.

We will also be having some serious talks with Martin Lundström about the cover work of the album.

The current working title of the album is "100mph With The Brakes On".

As Executive Producer I have never had so much fun, the time I spent in the studio with all these wonderful people is a very welcome distraction from my ordinary life.

All the Best and Yodel from a very tired Sören

PS: All my love goes out to My, Bella, Angelica, Sara, Sandrine & Andrea

Five backing tracks recorded today...Robbo, Ian and Nalle, withChris Laney behind the desk as usual. Started with a weird song, "10 miles to go on a 9 mile road" by Jim White then into an as yet untitled Robbo original with the working title "Bonanza" ... very melodic and rocking. Into another Robbo original "Diamonds And Dust" which is single material in my opinion. Last, but not least, two versions of Philip Lynott's "Running Back" ... one slow bluesy, swampy, slide guitar driven version an the other a rock 'n' roll number in the vein of Rod Stewart & The Faces or The Rolling Stones.

Tomorrow we'll go in to record rhythm guitars and keyboards before lead vocals on Wednesday and lead guitars on Thursday.

Acoustic guitars, a middle-east loop, lead vocals, bottleneck and lead guitars recorded today at the fourth and last day of this session ... it's been great once again and we all have really high hopes for a killer album. Chris and Lennart at Polar Studios have been great company and inspiration and our hard working crew (Ian, Leif & Nalle) did another excellent session for us ... we'd be lost without you guys!

14 tracks recorded so far (2 versions of Running Back!) and hopefully we'll get some more studio time in June to finish the recordings off and then it's time to mix ... we're so looking forward to get this album released and with a little luck, we'll have it out in the shops before the end of this year...the long wait for a Brian Robertson solo album shall soon be over.

All the Best and Yodel from Sören & Robbo

PS: Thanks to the Rock Legend Forum who gave me the idea to record Running Back!

Tracks recorded:

Do It Till We Drop (Berry/Miller)
Blues Boy (Lynott/Robertson)
Linger My Love (Karlsson/Robertson)
Mail Box (Miller)
It's Only Money (Lynott)
That's All! (Robertson)
Devil In My Soul (Robertson)
Passion (Robertson)
Texas Wind (Robertson)
10 Miles To Go On A 9 Mile Road (White)
Diamonds And Dirt (Robertson)
Running Back (Lynott) 2 different versions
Untitled (Robertson)