Fast Nasties

"We like to call our music 'Progressive Blues,'" says guitarist Andreas Laursen. "It's a re-imagining of roots music beyond expected 12-bar standard of the blues. It's built on blues roots, but the style we've developed uses that as a base for something much more melodically uninhibited."

"Our aim," adds lead singer Eric Martin, "is to show that blues (as the purists know it) can coexist within the same composition as many of its subgenres: rock, soul, funk, and gospel. We try to weave a wide range of genres into our phrasings and arrangements. That blending and layering leads to new interpretations of what blues can be, it gives our music a kind of richness and depth you don't associate with traditional blues." Fast Nasties genre-expanding groove straddles decades of music with ease.