Souled American is an American alternative country band from Chicago that was active mostly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band started in 1986 with a quartet of musicians from Illinois. The initial lineup consisted of rhythm guitar/singer Chris Grigoroff, bassist/singer Joe Adducci, lead guitarist Scott Tuma, and drummer Jamey Barnard. The band made six records between 1988 and 1995; Barnard left the group during the making of the fourth record Sonny, while Tuma departed during the making of the sixth record, Notes Campfire. Since then, Souled American has survived as a duo featuring the original songwriters Adducci and Grigoroff, aided and accompanied by a variety of other musicians. In 2023, Grammy Award-winning musician Jeff Tweedy wrote about Souled American in his book, World Within a Song. Though Souled American, he explained, were contemporaries of his first band Uncle Tupelo, they never achieved widespread popularity; instead, as Uncle Tupelo shot to stardom in the burgeoning alternative country movement of the early 1990s, Souled American fell from sight. Consequently, Tweedy wrote, this Souled American song he was celebrating, "was likely the hardest track to find of any" he wrote about.
1996 · 1 lyric
1994 · 2 lyrics
