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Welcome! Karin Rudefelt & Doctor Blues is a Swedish blues band, originating from as far back as 1980. For many years now, we have been playing only our own material - firmly rooted in the blues but cooking with influences from rock, funk and jazz.

The result is a thick and heavy blues rock sound well suited both for a concert audience and for an audience in the mood for dancing. And if there’s room for it, they will dance…

Download an easy printable presentation of the band (PDF, 55Kb)

Slideshow

Get aquainted fast by checking out our slideshow. Plenty of images from 2009 to the backdrop of "The point of no return". (Opens up in a new browser window and plays automatically, 7MB.) If you want to see an earlier slideshow, picturing the band between the years of 2006-2008, click this link (21Mb).

Reviews in short

"Professional to the bones" - Jefferson Blues Magazine (The oldest blues magazine in the world!)

"They´ve done their homework" - Blues Revue USA

“Top 10 most played blues album” – Canadian University Radio

“The blues connoisseurs soon noticed that the band belongs to the top class of Scandinavian blues.” – Rocktimes Magazine Germany

"The best Swedish blues in many years" - Radio Denmark

Love it!" - Blues Radio el Paso Texas USA

"I´m sure, if it´s close to Magic Brew, I could play the crap out of it!!" - Radio Oregon USA

"I´m liking it! Is your band interested in performing at any of the blues festivals in our area?" - Washington Blues Society USA

"Voodoo vibes. Have you guys been to the Crossroads?!" - Brian Kramer/artist, producer USA

"Norway deserves it!" - Norwegian Radio

"I was blown away by the sound" - Australian Radio

"A compact temporary sound without forgetting the tradition, passionate mood, real feeling and the beautiful voice of Karin Rudefelt" - Italian Radio

"Excellent stuff that deserves exposure to a wider range of blues lovers" - Macedonian Radio

"One of the best live gigs in the country" - Stockholm City Magazine

"Look out, Bonnie and Norah!" - Blue Beat Club

“Lennart Olofssons melancholic slide guitar was weeping while Karin Rudefelt's deep expressive voice burned with devotion” – Obermain Tagblatt Daily Magazine Germany

“The atmosphere reached the boiling point. The Lady of the Blues.” – Frankischer Tag Daily Magazine Germany

“A crowded dance floor, and in the middle: Karin Rudefelts deep and smokey voice.” – Mo! Magazine Germany

"First class blues" - DalaDemokraten Swedish Daily Magazine

"The festivals real heavyweights" - Jarfalla/Stockholm  Jazz & Blues Festival

Reviews extended

”How Swede it is. From the land of the Vikings comes Doctor Blues. Guitarist/singer/songwriter Lennart Olofsson leads an ensemble fronted by sweet-voiced vocalist Karin Rudefelt. Cooking with powerful restraint. Fine players all, and they´ve done their homework!”

Blues Revue - USA No 1 Blues Magazine

”Now that´s my kind of blues! Original, creative and soul infused. It all grooves with confidence. They have something “real” to say on their new CD, which defines their unique sound. Magic Brew has the Voodoo vibe! Have you guys been to the Crossroads or something? This blues actually makes me horny…”

Brian Kramer – Producer/Artist

"Karin Rudefelt and Doctor Blues are further proof of the grandeur and versatility of the Swedish Blues World."

Jefferson Blues Magazine(Swedens leading blues magazine)

"This is heavy, really heavy! Karin Rudefelt has to be Sweden's best blues singer and she even scores high on the overall listing. Add a band which knows what it’s doing and you get first class blues! Lennart Olofsson has written blues songs that are simply perfect. Modern blues which clings on to its roots and it is all good. It is blues that's vibrant, feels right and real. Buy the album if you want to hear blues that lives."

Lennart Gotesson - Dalademokraten (Swedish newspaper, about Magic brew)