In the beginning there were two men. Both had a strong urge to wrap their fingers around the neck of a guitar and squeeze bluesy notes out of it. In the cold and harsh month of February, at a concert with Fabulous Thunderbirds, the urge became overwhelming and the two men decided to start a band. A band that would combine one part of blues with two parts of rock ’n roll and a dash of country. And all of it decorated with a funky groove. They had a dream of a dynamic, guitar based music with a definite groove. Music that makes parts of your body wriggle and twist and the thirst for beer spread like a prairie fire.

Now came the time to find some soul mates to form a complete group. A rock steady bass player was on the list. He was found within the day. Next they had to find a drummer with a lot of energy and drive as well as sensitivity. In a few weeks they had the man. The band was formed and Texas Groove was born.

Next the band had to decide what songs to play. After spending a few hours deep down in their separate record collections, it all turned out crystal clear: the music to be played is the music created deep down in the heart of America. With a collection of songs from Delbert McClinton, Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, John Mellencamp, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Los Lobos, Terry Evans, Tony Joe White, ZZ Top and a few other heroes, the band had found itself a musical treasure.

They swore that they would play the songs with the same passion and feeling as their musical heroes and heroines do. But, you might say, isn’t that just copying? The answer comes in four part harmony: Copying?! Never, ever! Every song that the group has taken up from that moment on, is executed with their own attitudes and interpretations, made into a very own living version of the original.

So, here they were, four men in the same room with their own, paid instruments and with the same urge to play the same kind of music – something good just had to come out of that!

For the next couple of years the band drove around in a 1968 VW Microbus and made hundreds of gigs at small, bigger and even bigger clubs. Eventually they recorded a CD record with a definite live touch to it. But before starting those recordings, they realized that they needed a keyboard player. They tried out a couple of Malmö’s best keyboard players and then decided to keep one of them.

Now the band has existed since that day in february 1993 and if nothing special has happened, they’re still playing. Somewhere on a stage in The Blue Land, where the sun hangs like a warm slice of an orange over the desert and that smooth blue wind caresses the satin night. The Land where the cows are always on their way home.