“It just happened that way. Then we became friends and My Bubba & Mi.” is the answer to the question how three girls from Denmark, Sweden and Iceland became roommates in an apartment in Copenhagen. Sometimes life’s that simple.

My Bubba & Mi is a special female trio that reeled us in with their intrigueing mix of folk, expert fingerpicking and vocal harmonies so warm they’ll melt the biggest glacier. They themselves are far more down-to-earth.
“lullabies from the countryside”, is what the ladies call it.

The latter might be a more accurate description, as the trio headed to the sunny, wide fields of southern Italy to record their debut. The story goes as follows. An Italian bar-owner was cycling through the city of  Copenhagen on holiday. He was taken in by hypnotising sounds seeping through the window of a small bar nearby. Overpowered by his curiosity the man entered and saw My, Bubba and Mia performing for a small audience. A fan was born. The man invited the ladies to come to Italy to perform their music. “All right”, the threesome said and they left. A second invitation followed soon afterwards, this time to record a CD. “Agreed”, the answer was yet again and they packed their bags. Yes, that’s how simple life can be.

‘How it’s done in Italy’ is the mesmerizing debut of My Bubba & Mi and furthermore the first Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck release from an international artist. The album will be released on March 8th on CD and vinyl. The 1,500 covers are – believe it or not – hand-made by the bandmembers themselves. Each cover is a unique piece of art.

Here’s what Bubba has to say about it:

“It all started when we adopted some 10″ vinyl covers. We found them, and saved them from being thrown away. They are old, from the 40′s & 50′s, all are different, with old commercials on them from old radio stations, notes from their former owners and they smell good. This was before artist made their own artwork, their tunes were just wrapped in brown paper with stamps from the distributor.We then made stamps with our own name and songs and some striped paper became a part of the outfit.

The CD packaging is based on the same idea, some brown paper, folded, glued, sometimes stapled with our stamps on it. It sounds simple but it took a month or more, day and night to make. Many people were involved, friends and uncles and friends of uncles.All are different, some are crooked, none are straight. And that is how it’s done in Italy, hand made by My Bubba & Mi.”

Making 1.500 covers by hand is the kind of crazy we can appreciate, but still makes you wonder when regret kicks in.

“The idea is as stupid as making hand made spaghetti for a party with thousand people. But it’s nice, when people take their time to do things by themselves. Following the process from beginning to end. Spoiling it with love and time. Things like that are rare to find now a days where most things are downloadable.”

True that. These girls know what’s what, that’s for sure.

Ah, remember…A year and a half ago we dove right in that Dutch musicbizz and got our paws wet (and a little more than just paws I’m afraid). Seven beautiful releases  – and countless valuable experiences later we feel like weathered veterans, but really, those albums only whetted our appetite. It’s time for new things. New territory to be discovered.

The last couple of months we’ve been peaking over our countries border and saw some awesome new things that made us think ‘gimme!’. One of those ‘things’ is a 3 piece group named My Bubba & Mi from that strangely appealing, home-of-lego country called Denmark.

Here’s the story in short. There’s three girls – My, Bubba and Mia – from three countries – Denmark, Sweden and Iceland. Somehow they ended up in the same place: an appartment in Copenhagen and became friends. Bubba tells us:

“It just happened that way. Then we became friends and My bubba & Mi. During our third concert, in Copenhagen, Andrea, an italian café owner, happened to bike by, and he heard our voices he said and came in. After the show he told us we should come play at his café in Italy. We were pleased that he liked us, but we thought we’d never hear from him again. Then a couple of months later we got an email from Alessandro at WWNBB, who had been introduced to our music by Andrea, and who wanted to organize a tour for us in Italy the following year. We went, and they asked us to come back soon to make a record. We did.”

They did alright.

They left Italy with a lovely record called ‘How it’s done in Italy‘. The girls themselves describe their music as lullabies from the countryside, which we must admit, goes a long way. Think folk, country & blues, think old days, lovely harmonies, think of a robust contrabass dating a fragile casio keyboard. No, stop thinking, start listening!

Gone
I will never love a young boy again

Yes sir. ‘How it’s done in Italy‘ get’s the lovely catalogue nr. BEEP008-2010 and is our first release of an international artist! The album will be released on CD & Vinyl and hits the stores March 8. We’ll have the girls over for a little tour in April. More on those things later. For now, the girls would like to say ‘hi’ to you their selves. Why don’t you say ‘hi’ back?