Effective period / Period of releases: 2004

Members: Jens Krüger, Uwe Krüger, Joel Landsberg

Americana, folk trio, based in Wilkesboro, NC

Born and raised in Europe, brothers Jens and Uwe Krüger started singing and playing instruments at a very young age. Growing up in a family where music was an important part of life, they were exposed to a wide diversity of musical influences. The brothers were performing regularly by the time they were eleven and twelve years old, and they began their professional career in 1979. Jens’ and Uwe’s first public performances were as a duo, and in just a few years they were busking on the streets of cities throughout eastern and western Europe.

CBS Records contracted with Jens and Use when Jens was just 17-years-old, and shortly thereafter, the Krügers hosted a radio show on SRG SSR, the Swiss Public broadcast group. Several years later, the brothers teamed up with bass player Joel Landsberg, a native of New York Cty, who also had a very extensive music upbringing in classical and jazz music (stuyding with jazz great Mlt Hinton), thus forming a trio that has been playing professionally together since 1995.