Alberta Cross

Leave it to Europeans to teach us just how gripping and transcendent Americana rock can be. The London-based Alberta Cross, made up of Swedish Petter Ericson Stakee and Terry Wolfers, craft folk rock songs- golden and sun-lit, lazy and aching. In "Lucy Rider," when singer Stakee's voice wails "Why do she always lose what she loves?," his voice has the same emotional gravitas as Kurt Cobain during his acoustic solos- pained and passionate. But this ain't grunge rock. These are the type of ballads birthed by weathered cowboys over an oak-burning fire, embraced by The Allman Brothers and The Band.....and now reinvigorated by Alberta Cross.