If you dig into singer/songwriter Daniel Norgren’s background, it’s not hard to trace the roots of his strong independent streak.
Norgren grew up near Borås, Sweden, a town of around 70,000 people, where he knew no one else who was interested in playing the guitar, writing songs, or even listening to the kind of rootsy American music he loved.
Even his father—a singer and guitarist with a record collection dominated by American rock ’n’ roll—left Norgren to find his own musical way.
“He found this cheap, busted-up junkyard guitar in an old trash container, and he gave it to me when I was in high school. I just started strumming it,” Norgren says. “But he never taught me anything. He just gave me the guitar and said, ‘You can do whatever you want with it.’”