Soul’d Out

Song of the Day:

The BusBoys – Johnny Soul’d Out

The BusBoys had a tricky concept to pull off.  Their service industry stage wear and their Black guys doing old fashioned Rock & Roll walked a thin line between parody and “um, I don’t get it”.  But,  their first album, Minimum Wage Rock & Roll from 1980 contained some strong material and manged to mostly pull it off.  They were pioneers in their way although mostly unknown ones.  They did have a minor hit with The Boys are Back in Town (not the Thin Lizzy song) from the 1982 film 48 Hours but, then quickly faded into undeserved obscurity.  This song, one of the album high lights serves as a Mission Statement of sorts and is a lot of fun to boot.