SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Jan 20, 2010, 9:12 am
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Jan 20, 2010, 9:12 am
Well sort off. I have launched a new blog. I haven't been active much on Boss Tracks in the past year or so. While it was fun to do, it was also very time consuming. Boss Tracks had many rewards like interviewing Eddie Floyd and Southside Johnny, getting an actual mention on Springsteen's official w...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 28, 2009, 1:57 am
Arthur Conley arguably was one of Soul's most tender stars. Arthur's star shone short but bright, immortalizing himself with the smash Sweet Soul Music. The genre's anthem, one of those songs everybody knows and knows how to shake their hips to. Few might know Conley sang the damn record, but everyb...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 19, 2009, 4:33 am
Recently I was lucky enough to score an interview with the great Eddie Floyd. As a major Soul fan interviewing Eddie Floyd is a big deal. Though when mentioning mister Floyd to friends I got a shocking amount of raised eye brows from people in their thirties, Floyd was at the cradle of what we see t...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 13, 2009, 3:59 am
In this blog I strive to go for the original recordings of a song. On this occasion I felt it was warranted to go with the second recorded version. It was the Rivieras proto-Garage version that made this Henry Glover song into a hit after all. Joe Jones' original take on the song had barely dented t...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 7, 2009, 1:47 am
Rolling Stone placed Many Rivers to Cross on the 317 spot of their top 500 essential songs, calling it a "hymn about struggle and perseverance." As a song it works on many levels. It is a song about personal everyday struggle first. The lyrics search for that strength and wisdom to overcome the obst...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 3, 2009, 1:09 pm
February 3 1959 is also infamously known as the day that music died. That fatal day Buddy Holly flew to his death while on tour with the Winter Dance Party, a package that included Dion and the Bellmonts as well. It was the first time Buddy Holly had flown. With Holly, R&R also lost famous DJ the Bi...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 2, 2009, 12:25 am
Despite all the reservations fans had about selling out I thought we just witnessed the hard rocking, pants dropping, booty quacking, Viagra tacking, history making, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band in all their glory. Springsteen promised us the final 12 minutes of the show and we got it in ...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Feb 1, 2009, 2:26 pm
Fats Domino is without a doubt one of the pillars of R&R. The amount of hits the Fat Man scored in his hey day is uncanny. For a while there it seemed that Fats had the Midas Touch. Yet, for some reason, Let the Four Winds Blow proved to be one of his last smash hits in 1961. By that time Domino ha...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Jan 30, 2009, 6:45 am
Usually I save this feature for songs written by Springsteen. Today we’re making an exception by looking at the history of this seminal piece of song writing. This Land is Your Land, in my mind, reflects America and its dream better than the official national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. It c...
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SoulBoogieAlex posted an article on Boss Tracks - Jan 28, 2009, 7:14 am
An advance copy of Working on a Dream slipped into my mail box today. Exactly the excuse I needed to re-start this blog again. I realize I have been absent for a couple of months. A thing or two changed in my private life, things which are a happy distraction away from the Internet. Keeping up Boss ...
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