release date: Dec. 28, 2005
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,33]
producer: Håkan Hellström, Daniel Gilbert
label: Dolores Recordings / EMI Music Sweden - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "13" (4 / 5) [Big Star cover] - 2. "Klubbland" - 3. "Så länge du är med mig" - 5. "Precis som Romeo" - 7. "Jag hatar att jag älskar dig och jag älskar dig så mycket att jag hatar mig" (4 / 5) - 8. "Evert Taube" - 11. "Gatan fram (live)" [Eldkvarn cover]
4th album release by Håkan Hellström is his second album in the same year. Like the title suggest: 'Some old, some new, some borrowed, and some blue', this is however, not a normal studio album of brand new material but rather a compilation with previously unreleased tracks, cover-versions, a few new songs, and two live recordings. Despite the variety of song material, I think it's a fine album, maybe because what Håkan is so very good at, is to lend (some would say: 'steal'), and make his own personal interpretations of existing music, whether it's his own or other artists' compositions. The album is dedicated the Swedish boy Måns Jenninger, who at 13 took his own life as a consequence of long time bullying.
