{"id":41197,"date":"2023-01-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=41197"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:24:01","slug":"cover-me-soul-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/cover-me-soul-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me: Soul Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

[“Soul Days”] was a song I stumbled onto. You go on iTunes and you see you see “Drift Away<\/a>” at No. 1. No. 2, “Soul Days.” What’s “Soul Days?” I’ve never heard of that. All right. Boom. I put it on. Oh, it’s a great narrative. It’s about somebody’s love for soul music… It almost sounds like it could have been one of my tunes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

— Bruce Springsteen to Raina Douris, NPR, December 9, 2022<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we’d known in advance there was going to be a Dobie Gray song on Bruce Springsteen’s album of soul covers, “Soul Days” is the last song we’d guess.<\/p>\n

Heck, it’s probably the last song Bruce<\/em> expected. As he admitted to his NPR interviewer, he stumbled across it by accident.<\/p>\n

There’s a good reason for that: it was one of the very last songs Gray ever recorded, the title track to his final album. Released in 2001, neither the song nor the album attracted much in the way of notice or airplay. Even so, “Soul Days” is a sweet wistful track that transports its listener to a time when their life had a soundtrack. (It would have made a fine and far more fitting title track for Bruce’s album.)<\/p>\n