Around the Horn (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Around the Horn
Type = Album
Artist = Souled American


Released = 1990
Recorded = 1990
Genre = Rock
Length = 40:43
Label = Rough Trade
Producer = Souled American, Jeff Hamand, Brian Deck
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tneq97r7kr0t link]
Last album = "Flubber"
(1989)
This album = "Around the Horn"
(1990)
Next album = "Sonny"
(1992)

"Around the Horn" is the third album by Chicago-based alternative country band Souled American. It was released in 1990 by Rough Trade Records, and re-released, as part of the "Framed" box set, by tUMULt Records in 1999. According to Allmusic, "Around the Horn" shows the band now fully master of a unique kind of Americana, here much more melancholy and gently downbeat than ever before, guitars more apt to ring softly or solitarily than anything else. The dub and r'n'b touches prevalent on the first two albums aren't as apparent here, but what the band loses in relative breadth it more than makes up for in atmosphere."

Track listing

# "Around The Horn" – 3:43
# "Second of All" – 4:01
# "Old, Old House" – 3:31
# "Durante's Hornpipe" – 2:02
# "Rise Above It" – 6:10
# "Six Feet of Snow" – 4:18
# "Willdawg" – 3:23
# "I Keep Holding Back the Tears" – 4:26
# "You" – 4:11
# "Luggy Di" – 2:39
# "In the Mud" – 2:19

All songs by Souled American except "Old, Old House" by George Jones, "Six Feet of Snow" by Little Feat, "Durante's Hornpipe" (traditional), and "I Keep Holding Back the Tears" by bassist Joe Adducci's mother.

Personnel

* Joe Adducci – bass, vocals
* Jamey Barnard – drums
* Chris Grigoroff – guitar, vocals
* Scott Tuma – guitar
* Jaimo (Jaimo Welch) - trombone on "Second of All"

References

*The Nation: Album review by Gene Santoro, May 1990.
*Entertainment Weekly: "All About Around The Horn" by Greg Sandow, February 23, 1990.