Flubber (album)

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Flubber
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Studio album by
Souled American
Released1989
Recorded1989
Genre Country folk
Length50:59
Label Rough Trade
Producer Souled American, Jeff Hamand
Souled American chronology
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(1988)		Flubber
(1989)		 Around the Horn
(1990)

Flubber is the second album by Chicago-based band Souled American. [1] [2] It was released in 1989 by Rough Trade Records, and re-released, as part of the Framed box set, by tUMULt Records in 1999. [3] [4] "Cupa Cowfee" is the band's interpretation of the John Fahey song "The Last Steam Engine Train". [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
New Musical Express 8/10 [8]

The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Employing odd, broken rhythms and unorthodox sequences of notes and chords in a guitars-bass-drums format, Souled American basically breaks up the conventions of country-folk then reassembles them in a new and distinctive way." [7] The Chicago Reader called Flubber "an offhandedly pretty and searchingly lyrical record." [9]

Tracy Santa, writing in the San Francisco Bay Guardian , described it as "a postmodern Music from Big Pink " and "lost soul music" adding, "Aside from the deadpan joy and unpredictable creakiness of it all, what has probably kept me listening is that I just don’t have the slightest idea what they’re singing about. Do I care? There have always been plenty of easy answers floating around in pop music (see 'hook'). Flubber sounds like it’s having a hard time posing a question. I can respect that kind of confusion." [10]

Track listing

  1. "All Good Things" (Adducci) – (4:41)
  2. "Mar'boro Man" (Adducci/Grigoroff) – (2:56)
  3. "Wind to Dry" (Adducci) – (4:08)
  4. "Drop in the Basket" (Grigoroff) – (2:59)
  5. "Heywire" (Adducci/Grigoroff/Tuma) – (2:33)
  6. "The Torch Singer" (Prine) – (7:08)
  7. "True Swamp" (Adducci/Barnard/Grigoroff/Tuma) – (3:19)
  8. "Marleyphine Hank" (Adducci/Grigoroff) – (2:33)
  9. "You and You Alone" (Adducci) – (4:41)
  10. "Cupa Cowfee" (Fahey) – (2:14)
  11. "Over the Hill" (Grigoroff) – (4:57)
  12. "Zillion" (Adducci) – (4:55)
  13. "Why Are You" (Adducci/Grigoroff) – (3:37)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Craig (July 17, 1989). "Souled American Makes Its Own Kind of Folk". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 5.
  2. ↑ Sutherland, Steve (June 10, 1989). "Albums: Souled American". Melody Maker. 65 (23): 33.
  3. ↑ "Souled American Biography by Jason Ankeny". AllMusic. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  4. ↑ Morris, Chris (June 26, 1999). "Souled-Out". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 26. p. 77.
  5. ↑ "Souled American". Trouser Press. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  6. ↑ Flubber at AllMusic
  7. 1 2 Popson, Tom (April 20, 1989). "Recordings". Chicago Tribune. p. 11F.
  8. ↑ Romney, Jonathan (June 24, 1989). "Souled American — Flubber (Rough Trade Records)". New Musical Express . London: IPC Limited. p. 37. ISSN   0028-6362 . Retrieved May 27, 2023– via Flickr.
  9. ↑ Wyman, Bill. "Camper Van Beethoven/Souled American". Chicago Reader. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Souled American's Slow Resurrection". PopMatters. February 27, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
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