I had just moved to Chicago in the mid 1980's and hooked up with Chris and Joe who were recording their first record as Souled American. I knew them from their previous band, the Uptown Rulers, who were based in my college town of Normal, Illinois. I don't remember much about the actual recording of my steel guitar parts but I do remember a couple of special shows we did - one at the Metro and the other opening for Buddy Guy at Phyllis's Musical Inn for about 40 people.

Years later on the first date of my first European tour with Freakwater I finally heard the finished record. We had just come off the stage at a club in Hamburg and the D.J. put Fe on. At first it sounded strangely familiar. I thought someone was covering one of Chris' songs. Then I heard this real twisted steel guitar and realized this was the Souled American I had worked on years before! It was pretty surrealistic.

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