Geir Sundstøl

Although Sundstøl (born 1969) didn’t make his solo album debut until 2015, with Hubro’s ‘Furulund’, he is one of the most respected (and most frequently played on the radio) musicians in Norway, having appeared as a sideman on more than 400 albums since turning professional in 1988, as well as touring internationally with artists as diverse as iconic Nordic pop-stars A-ha and the legendary post-jazz trumpeter Nils Petter-Molvaer. Sundstøl also has an international profile himself through his celebrated 1990s collaboration with U.S. alt-country singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore, his role in the partnership credited with helping to inspire Joel and Ethan Coen - who attended one of the duo’s concerts - to create the character of Gaear Grimsrud (the monosyllabic hitman played by Peter Stormare) in their Academy Award-winning film from 1996, ‘Fargo.