Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Trees, Grass and Stones - The Summer Tune. The TG&S lads take a quintessentially Swedish folk music-sounding melody, make a short and sweet though somewhat dirgy art rock track out of it, then move to the countryside and a few years later turn the same tune into sheer sprawling earthy brilliance. Not one to simply drop into the middle of!

Lest anyone be confused: TG&S is essentially the same band as International Harvester (and Pärson Sound, and simply Harvester). International Harvester was ironically named after a globocorp manufacturer of agricultural equipment.

00:00 International Harvester - Sommarlåten (1968)
02:45 Sommarlåten (Live 1972)
29:17 Drammen Export / Sommarlåten (Live 1971)

Träd, Gräs och Stenar lineup:
Bo Anders Persson - guitar & vocals
Jakob Sjöholm - guitar & vocals
Thomas Mera Gartz - drums & vocals
Torbjörn Abelli - bass, cello & vocals

International Harvester lineup:
Bo Anders Persson — guitars, vocals
Thomas Mera Gartz — drums
Torbjörn Abelli — bass
Thomas Tidholm — horns, vocals
Urban Yman — violin
Arne Ericsson – cello