Take a soul singer like Marvin Gaye, send him to Neil Young's farm for work experience, get him to jam with Levon Helm and the Band and then take him on a fishing trip with Paul Kelly and you'll have an idea of the Huckleberry Swedes. Guitars, Banjo, Hammond Organ, Squeeze Box and great harmonies.

With BJ Barker on drums, Sam Willoughby on bass &vocals, Richard "The Judge" Coates on keyboards & accordion, Mark Elberg on guitars, banjo, mandolin & vocals and Troy Loakes on vocals & guitar, Adelaide’s Huckleberry Swedes have rightly developed a name as a great live act.

Sometimes alt Country, sometimes Soul, Huckleberry Swedes are artists with voices that join in the ups and downs of our time. Songs about the love of fishing, pies, and sweethearts, songs of protest, underdog anthems and melancholic musings baked in a crust of roots, rock, folk, soul, Australiana and Americana. They’re a band that asks questions about who we are, and what our place is in the land.

The band’s live shows are delivered with an intense heart and soul that has seen them invited to spend the last year criss-crossing the Eastern States to perform at some of our finest music festivals, including Byron Bay Blues & Roots, Apollo Bay, Gympie Music Muster, Fuse, Tamworth and the Robe Village Fair, as well as performing their own tours.