Yesterday I received and read Camden Joy's "Unforgetting Flubber" which is a great read about my favorite @souledamerican.bsky.social LP. I remember seeing the video below for "All Good Things" super late either as the last shown on "120 Minutes" or the first video after 2 AM: youtu.be/WaEeSL_gZiw

Today’s mail! Camden Joy’s deep dive into the making of a great record by @souledamerican.bsky.social

Chris Grigoroff formed Souled American in 1986 with bassist Joe Adducci, drummer Jamey Barnard, and guitarist Scott Tuma. "To me it was a very simple concept," says Grigoroff. "I wanted to have a rock and roll band that used roots music to create something that had never been created."

Souled American’s seventh album—said since December 1997 to be nearing completion—is at last sequenced, mastered, and done. The band is in talks with several labels. Expect details soon.

In late-July 1989, a few months after the release of Flubber, the band arrives in California and the LA Weekly celebrates them thus: "funky hillbilly-rock that captures the dark, charred heart and speed-addled brain of the American truckstop spirit..."

Best novel ever is being reissued Tuesday

Souled American playing outdoors at Phyllis’s North in 1988.

A review of Souled American’s Rise Above It in Poland’s Lizard magazine…!

Chris Grigoroff, age twenty-four, in cut-offs and Charleston Girls softball shirt, pictured with the rest of the Uptown Rulers in 1980, the band of cut-offs that preceded Souled American.

“We dub thee… Flubber!” Souled American’s second release was named for the anti-grav product created by Ned Brainard in Disney’s “The Absent-Minded Professor” (1961)

This from the excellent Skylar Keffer—a photo from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a flyer mentioning Souled American, raising hopes that they will dominate next year’s voting.

Super articulate.

Tomorrow : Bandcamp Friday. Cost of 35 DAYS OF FE: momentarily low.

“Souled American are a conundrum.”

Hey, JD, wanted to thank you for shouting out this show last week. I had not heard of SA before and I went solely due to the recs from you and @cardiganenthusiast.bsky.social and it was a really fantastic and special gig. @souledamerican.bsky.social

I have an album coming out May 9. Here's a video for one tune from it, a cover of a song by the incomparable @robynhitchcock.bsky.social. Please feel encouraged to share widely! youtu.be/IP_qEFULFoM?...

New interview with the band open.spotify.com/episode/3iAX...

In Boomer films, men bond at the batting cages. In Gen X films, men play paintball. In Millennial films, men sit on sofas and shoot aliens/terrorists on TV. What do Gen Z men do?

Consider buying tickets app.promotix.com/events/detai...

just got mine in the mail -- something to really cherish.

NOW AVAILABLE. 35 Days of Fe by Camden Joy. Short essays about the creation of the band's debut, drawing on research and interview conducted by the author. Includes lyrics, illustrations, photos. Designed by Mark Lerner of Rag & Bone Shop. 66 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" $15.00 plus shipping.

I love this scrap. While sequencing their second album "Flubber," Souled American heard that Rough Trade label-mates The Feelies called them the "most musically talented on our roster."

We just discovered 800 Bandcamp people behind us! Thanks ❤️

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A feature about Souled American from illustrious Jon Dale occupies a remarkable number of pages in the very latest issue of Uncut Magazine labeling RISE ABOVE IT their choice as "Reissue of the Month." !!!!!!!!!!

“This music may be enigmatic and idiosyncratic but repeated listens to many of the tracks reveal their beauty…” www.theaquarian.com/2025/02/21/o...

Tickets can be purchased for an appearance by Souled American in Chicago on April 17: link.dice.fm/u760a6cc5f7b

tickets on sale today to attend an exceedingly rare appearance of Souled American in Cleveland on Saturday April 19. app.promotix.com/events/detai...

April 19. Cleveland. Tickets on sale Friday. (Poster by Emma Jane Keffer.)

April 17. Chicago. Tickets go on sale this Friday. (Poster by Emma Jane Keffer!)

A great collection requires a great cover picture and Souled American is indebted to Achim Kröpsch for not only taking a great picture in 1989 but now allowing it to be used on the forthcoming “Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology.” Thanks!!!

We all desperately need something to look forward to so here’s this: Souled American will perform in April. Details to come.

Here Joe Adducci, Scott Tuma, and Chris Grigoroff harmonize on Notes Campfire, the opener of the 20-song overview “RISE ABOVE IT: A Souled American Anthology,” out next week from Omnivore Recordings.

Played my kids White Man in the Hammersmith Palais. Cried.

we are all a-quiver because it's now LESS THAN 2 WEEKS before Omnivore Recordings releases RISE ABOVE IT: a souled american anthology, which collects 20 previously released SA tunes including 'Feel Better.' Here's Scott Tuma pictured by Wade Iverson in 1988! (cont.)

An exciting month here at SA HQ: Just eighteen days until the release of “RISE ABOVE IT: A Souled American Anthology” from Omnivore Recordings… should you be an individual who wishes to write or pod-speak or interview the band about this, please email [email protected] Fists raised high. ❤️

The LA folks at the label releasing the forthcoming SA anthology were hit hard by the recent tragedies. Please please please consider purchasing something from the Omnivore Records website to help them rebuild.

from 35 Days of Fe: “Right around the Fourth of July in 1987 Chris opens the New York Times magazine to see a series of black and white photographs taken by Sebastiao Salgado that document a gold rush in Brazil at Serra Pelada. Salgado shoots not only intimate portraits of the miners themselves…”

Coming 02/21/25 from Omnivore Recordings