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Frozen by Souled American tracklist:
1 Frozen
2 Sitdown
3 Two Of You
4 Rain Delay
5 Downblossom
6 Heyman
7 Better Who
8 Lucky
9 Heyday
About Frozen and the band Souled American
They are a Chicago-based alternative country group founded by Chris Grigoroff (guitar, bass) and Joe Adducci (vocals, tambourine). They previously played keyboards for a group called The Uptown Rulers.
In 1991, Souled American’s drummer Jamey Barnard left the band. In 1992, the band released “Sonny,” in which eight of the ten songs were cover tunes.
A touring with Camper Van Beethoven and four critically acclaimed albums later, Souled American gained cult popularity. However, in 2012, Rough Trade, their record label folded. Unfortunately, the group found themselves without one.
Since 1996, guitarist Scott Tuma also left the group, leaving only Adducci and Grigoroff. Since that time, the two have occasionally performed in Ohio, New York City, and Chicago.
Several re-releases of their first four albums happened in 1999 on Tumult Records. In 1997, New York artist Camden Joy created a poster project called “Fifty Posters About Souled American.” Joy then distributed the posters throughout New York City.
In the three years since Scott Tuma left the band, he released three solo albums: Hard Again with Atavistic, The River with Truckstop Records, and Not For Nobody via Digitalis.
He has also recorded with Chicago’s Zelienople band members and occasionally has performances with the Boxhead Ensemble.
So far, the only studio material available is a cover of Kris Kristofferson’s “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends” on a tribute album released in 2002, as well as a song on Yeti magazine’s fourth edition, “Ringside Suite.”
In almost a decade, the band hasn’t released an original album, and this is its only recording with Adducci and Grigoroff.
During the summer of 2007, the band made two shows in Colorado and Wyoming by announcing that they were composing material for their first album in nearly twenty years in their home near Charleston, Illinois.
