"Swede Home Alabama" (released September 2004) is an album written and produced by Pat Huggins. It's a musical collaboration between Pat and a talented group of musicians and singers from Göteborg, Sweden and Muscle Shoals, Alabama (thus the name).
Back in 1999 Pat was living and working as a pilot in Brussels, Belgium. During his days off he traveled up to Sweden to visit friends and it was during that trip that he met guitarist Erik Weissglas.
They threw together a bunch of Pat’s songs and within a week were playing at various bars and venues around Göteborg under the name of Pat Huggins and A Damn Good Band. Soon Pat, Erik, bassist Owe Almgren and drummer Mikko Rezler were in the studio recording the first tracks of what was to become "Swede Home Alabama". Pat returned to Sweden sometime later and enlisted drummer Per Ekblad to play some lives dates with them and to record eleven more tracks for the album.
Pat took the tapes back to Muscle Shoals and worked on the rest of the project for the next couple of years. He was able to enlist some great players, such as veteran studio percussionist Mickey Buckins, tenor and baritone sax player Brad Guin, alto sax and vocalist James Roy and keyboardist N.C. Thurman.
Back in May 2004 Pat and the others went back into the studio (this time with drummer Martina Almgren) and began work on their next album. They cut seventeen basic tracks in two days. One of those songs, "Blood Money", is included on "Swede Home Alabama". "Swede Home Alabama" is funky, soulful, bluesy, rockin', down-home collaboration that draws it's strength from musical contributions on both sides of the Atlantic.
