It had been a long time since I was as much under influence as when I went to the Tivoli on last Friday night with Lukas Batteau and Steve Savage. Luckily for the project, we already recorded the – first American – Onder Invloed session earlier that day at Lukas’ home studio.

Steve grew up listening to the records of his grandmother and his parents. Songs by great singers like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole came out of the record player and made Steve start singing. They still influence the way the extravert musician from Nashville listens to music and the way he writes his own songs. “Some people listen to the drums first, others to the guitars, I always hear the singing and the melodies first.”

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