Bluesrock isn´t common genre seen on our sites. We change it with solo album of musician known from Motörhead and Thin Lizzy – Brian Robertson and „Diamonds and Dirt“. All about how it was made, his band and his beginnings tells us Brian himself... 

First of all, when we look how famous musician you are, it´s kind a big problem to find information about your solo project. What can you tell our readers about it?

Well, on drums, we have Ian Haugland, he is drummer for Europe. On bass is Nalley Pahlsson from Treat and Therion. On vocals, lead singing is Leif Sundin and second vocals we have Liny Wood – solo artist here in Sweden. And I actually play the guitar and sing on my album.

The album is made of songs you give on tapes to Soren. How old are those songs? When were they written?

They come of a 30 year period. They are just taken from all the times. I got them on tapes in the bag and I haven´t hear them all yet.  It looks like it comes on another album. There is no record company involved in this. We, Soren and I, were doing this just for ourselves. It´ s not the target of any label, band or whatever. It´s very much my personal thing.

Music is mostly about feelings. Don’t you have some problems to get into feelings of the era when these songs were written?

No. I wrote quite a lot of it on keyboards and drums so basically what I´ve done is to take the seat of the idea and put it together with what I wanted these days. I re-write all the lyrics now to put it into what I am doing today, what situations I am in today. It´s all very fresh to me.  

Can you describe us album more in detail?

It´s a blues based album. There is continuity in the album eventhought the songs are sometimes really different. I can´t describe it track by track cause it would take all the night. (Laugh)

When I look on the album, I see cover made of photography. Simple and clear. That is quite uncommon in these times of graphics. What makes you to do this decision?

Well, it was Soren´s idea, not mine. I wanted it just simple, you know, Diamond and Dirt. So I left it on Soren and he takes a lot of different ideas. At last, we came with that one.

Album contains cover of “10 miles to go on 9 mile road” by Jim White. Why you choose this song? What means music of Jim White to you?

I love Jim White, he´s totally nuts. (Laugh) But he gets easily into this material and I am big fan of his but thing is that I just take his riff and make it really heavy, you know. I thought we fit it very well. I originally don’t want to do this, Soren pushed me into it. 

There is no full tour planned for “Diamonds and Dirt”. Would you play any concerts? Is anything confirmed yet?

It´s a bit difficult to get this band together to tour because they play in other bands. Maybe we play some summer festivals. We start with those and there is still possibility of a small tour. If everybody would be available… So, nothing confirmed yet….

Is it possible that we would hear some new material in future? Is it possible that we would see any stabile Brian Robertson Band in future?

Well, this is Brian Robertson Band and it is stabile… (Laugh) We aren’t more stabile only because everybody is playing elsewhere as well. You will hear new material in future, of course. But it would be the same band. (Laugh) In the same studio. (Laugh) That’s stabile enough, you know.

Let´s get back to the past times for a while. Who makes you to play guitar?

It was Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac. He is the best of blues guitar players.

What about your beginnings? When you actually realized that you could be a professional musician?

It´s not something you realize. I left home with 30 pounds in my pocket, guitar and drum sticks and went straight to London. I´ve nothing else in my mind only playing guitar. It´s not a question of being professional. I didn´t know anything else. Nothing than art. It just happened, you know. (Laugh)

It looks like we reach the end of this talk. Is there anything else you want to say to you fans and our readers?

Just thanks for having an interest. It was nice surprise cause as I said before, we didn´t really expect to get this much interest on this album. It´s such a personal way for me and Soren so it´s nice that people wanna hear it.