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![]() At the time, Souled American was germinating in the regionally popular high-energy ska band Uptown Rulers, in which singer-songwriter Grigoroff and bassist Adducci bonded over their mutual admiration for country’s tragic beauty and reggae’s bubbly rhythmic entrainment. Prior to Souled American, the so-called alternative country sound was characterized primarily by the hard-charging, early ‘80s “cowpunk” sound of bands like the Blasters Jason and the Scorchers and Rank and File. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track “I know it’s been 27 years,” Grigoroff explains over the phone from his Chicago home studio, “but we never stopped working on it.” Moreover, Grigoroff and Adducci sound tantalizingly close to completing their long-awaited seventh album, which could be out “in a few months,” they say. As longtime fan Jeff Tweedy of Wilco conveyed through his publicist, “Souled American’s music has been too hard to find for too long, and it’s about time these records blow people’s minds again.” Entropy, thy name is Souled American.īut happy days may be here again for Souled American, which made its debut on Bandcamp earlier this month. After releasing Notes Campfire in 1996, the band has languished in the background for nearly three decades, dropping only a couple of tracks and performing rather less than sporadically. All six of their releases are imbued with haunted beauty conveyed through enigmatic lyrics and remarkable musicianship, even as half their lineup drifted away, leaving Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci to carry on alone. Beginning with 1988’s Fe, the group-a quartet at the time-recorded their first four albums for Rough Trade over the course of a fertile two years. Souled American ambled onto the late ‘80s Chicago scene as the first-and easily the most artistically successful-country and reggae hybrid to roll down the pike.
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