On September 4, 2013, Norwegian-American Charlie Rackstead visited the NRK P1 radio show Lunsj for the very first time with his reworked American country version of the Dumdum Boys classic "Splitter Pine".

It was the start of an adventurous journey by land, sea and air. The recipe is familiar and beloved Norwegian pop and rock classics in American country guise. With surgical linguistic precision, rock-solid driving accompaniment, lively and expert string playing topped with angelic choirs wearing cowboy hats, the group from Sticklesbergen in Minnesota thunder across the prairie like a caravan of settlers, determined to find fertile soil to put their guitars in. And if there's one thing Norway has, it's fertile ground for country music.

In recent years, CR&TSR have played countless concerts and festivals in both imaginary and unimaginable nooks and crannies around the country, and have made lifelong friends among Norway's many country music enthusiasts. From the deepest south to the farthest north, from the far east to the far west, people have danced, clapped and sung along to the Norwegian musical heritage in wide-legged and boot-clad American. And since the Norwegian silver chest is almost bottomless, it is packed with both new and old classics from artists such as Wenche Myhre, Vazelina Bilopphøggers, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Unit Five, Mods, Åge Aleksandersen, Dumdum Boys, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Ola Bremnes, Vamp and Hellbillies. The band stretches the genre in all directions and plays with everything from slow bluegrass, driving blues and country rock, boogie and dusty spaghetti western mariachi. And as with so many of these songs, the translated lyrics and musical interpretation offer a new perspective, and in a way let us hear the songs for the first time again.