1 	All Night Boogie	3:07
2 	Forty-Four		4:10
3 	I Wanna Po'		4:15
4 	Dirty Shame		4:35
5 	My Feet Don't Wanna Walk No More	3:35
6 	Stick With The Blues	4:56
7 	Rakevillage Boogie Comes And Goes	2:47
8 	My Baby		4:42
9 	Signals Of Love		4:23
10 	Guitar Cha-Cha	3:33
11 	Burn Out	4:10
12 	Bye Bye Bird	1:20

Bass – Mikko Löytty
Drums, Percussion – Sakari Löytty
Guitar – Jarkka Rissanen, Ykä Putkinen
Organ [Hammond Organ] – J-P Virtanen
Vocals, Harmonica – Pepe Ahlqvist 

The Grand Old Man of the Finnish Blues, Pepe Ahlqvist (singer, harpist, guitarist, songwriter) is the domestic artist, who on very well-grounded reasons has appeared more often than others in the Blues News’ interviews and longer articles. BN and Ahlqvist seem to have the same pace from the right beginning; Ahlqvist started his musician career in the same year, 1968, when BN’s first issue came out. The earliest and very praising introductive writing by Vesa Walamies appeared in 1972, when Pepe was only 15 years old. Thereafter, there has not been shortage of story topics: at the time of his 30th anniversary, Ahlqvist, now living in Helsinki, was riding high, first taken to the hit lists and soon fronting the H.A.R.P. band, a decade later Chicago Overcoat was reactivated, at the age of 50 he delighted BN’s editorial staff and readership, when he, among other things, recorded with the UMO Jazz Orchestra as a big band solist, and received a scholarship from BN as to celebrate his half-century milestone. In June 2016 Pepe Ahlqvist turns 60 years, and he has not let his ”machine” gather any moss. The reassembled H.A.R.P. band starts/started the touring at the Puistoblues festival’s main concert, and about the same time the Bluelight label released a double collection CD ”One Day Less, One Day More”, which exposes the career of the blues master, now living in Tuusula, from the early years to the present. Busy Ahlqvist had enough time for BN, both to repeat the past and have a look into the near future. ---bluesnews.fi

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1. Don’t Stare At Me 4’24 (P. Ahlqvist)
2. Shot From The Saddle 4’28 (J. Henson)
3. Senor Blues 7’07 (H. Silver)
4. Unfair World 6’12 (P. Ahlqvist–T. Nuorva)
5. Heal Me With The Blues 4’39 (T. Pratskin–P. Ahlqvist)
6. Come On Home 5’10 (W. Mitchell–E. Randle)
7. Dancemaster 5’18 (P. Ahlqvist–T. Nuorva)
8. A Cicada Of Chicago 4’18 (P. Ahlqvist–T. Nuorva)
9. No More Affection 4’53 (T. Pratskin–P. Ahlqvist)
10. Last Hope’s Gone 5’43 (D. Sanborn–P. Butterfield–J. Hayne)
11. Ts & B’s 3’38 (H. Rantanen–T. Nuorva)
12. A Blues Disease 3’44 (P. Ahlqvist)
13. So Excited 6’53 (R. B. King–G. Jemmott)

Pepe Ahlqvist: Lead vocals, lead guitar
Matti Lappalainen: Conductor

Umo Jazz Orchestra:
Pentti Lahti: alto sax, alto flute, flut (solos 3 & 6)
Mikko Makinen: alto sax, clarinet, flute
Teemu Salminen: tenor sax, clarinet, flute (solo 10)
Olli Ojajarvi: tenor sax. Flute (solos 1 & 8 )
Pepa Paivinen: baritone sax, bass clarinet, tenor sax (solo 13)
Jan Kohlin: trumpet, fluegelhorn
Timo Paasonen: trumpet, fluegelhorn
Mikko Pettinen: trumpet, fluegelhorn (solos 7 & 11)
Tero Saarti: trumpet, fluegelhorn (solo 3)
Markku Veijonsuo: trombone (solo 12)
Mikko Mustonen: trombone
Pekka Laukkanen: trombone
Mikael Langbacka: bass trombone
Seppo Kantonen: paino, hammond, fender rhodes, clavinet
Ville Huolman: bass
Markus Ketola: drums

Additional musicians:
Sade Rissanen: backround vocals
Veera Railio: backround vocals
Yka Putkinen: rhythm guitar
Olli Haavisto: slide guitar (12), rhythm guitar (5)
Abdissa Assefa: percussion

A distinguished member of the European blues elite, PEPE AHLQVIST (born on 4th of July 1956) is an internationally known Finnish blues artist. During his 40-year-long career he has frequently performed with many legendary blues artists.He has managed to maintain his popularity through the years by presenting fabulous and successful recordings with various bands and giving over 5.000 gigs and concerts.

Pepe Ahlqvist is considered a talented and personal singer-guitarist-harmonica player with individual style who also writes his own songs. Pepe began his career in the turn of the 1960's and 1970's. CHICAGO OVERCOAT, his band in the 1970's, thrived under the shield of the legendary Love Records, wherefrom Pepe moved on to collaborate with Fazer/Warner Music for a good period of time. In the late 1980's and early 1990's PEPE AHLQVIST H.A.R.P. recorded several indispensable albums.

Besides Finland, the Pepe Ahlqvist albums have been released for instance in the other Nordic countries and in Middle Europe. The last one of the three most important Pepe Ahlqvist bands, THE ROLLING TUMBLEWEED recorded four albums that represent the absolute cream of Finnish blues. Pepe's most recent project, SF BLUES (Suomi-Finland Blues) started in 2002 with singer/guitarist Heikki Silvennoinen . So far there's been featuring top guests, and more is to come.

Pepe has been touring in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, USA and Canada. He has also performed as a guest soloist in a large number of concerts by international blues legends in Finland, for example for B.B. King in 2004 and 2006. Nowadays Pepe Ahlqvist works as a solo artist from acoustic gigs to big band concerts. ---pepeahlqvist.com

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