{"id":8404,"date":"2017-01-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:12:32","slug":"cover-me-gary-u-s-bonds-and-the-e-street-band-club-soul-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/08\/cover-me-gary-u-s-bonds-and-the-e-street-band-club-soul-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Soul City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started the way many of Bruce&#8217;s great songs did&#8211;with a hook.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime during the autumn of 1981, Bruce broke out his cassette recorder at his home in Colts Neck, and recorded two different deliveries of the chorus (if you can call it that) of what would become &#8220;Club Soul City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZ4rLMDqeUU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; the second one&#8217;s the stuff. But those 55 seconds are the only glimpse we have into the development of a song that Bruce would quickly finish and donate to Gary U.S. Bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Gary&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Club Soul City&#8221; appears on\u00a0<em>On the Line<\/em>, his 1982 follow-up to his <em>Dedication <\/em>comeback album.\u00a0Produced by both Bruce and Steve Van Zandt, <em>On the Line<\/em> features no less than <em>seven<\/em> original Springsteen compositions (see &#8220;Angelyne&#8221; for another), and the entire E Street Band backs Bonds throughout.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if not for Columbia&#8217;s insistence on removing Bruce&#8217;s backing from the album, it wouldn&#8217;t be that much of a stretch to call <em>On the Line<\/em> a lost Springsteen album. Bruce&#8217;s contributions to <em>On the Line\u00a0<\/em>are light pop numbers, in stark contrast to what he was writing and recording in that\u00a0<em>Nebraska\u00a0<\/em>era; I&#8217;m sure Bonds was more than happy to provide an outlet for the lighter side of Bruce&#8217;s songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a listen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kOEgaUp-3Pw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Club Soul City&#8221; doesn&#8217;t demand a lot of analysis. In fact, it&#8217;s basically a more soulful re-write of &#8220;Heartbreak Hotel.&#8221; While Bruce doesn&#8217;t provide the club&#8217;s address, it&#8217;s almost certainly down at the end of Lonely Street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Pack up your bags, don&#8217;t look back<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s a little place out &#8216;cross the railroad tracks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you&#8217;re broken-hearted, and you don&#8217;t know what to do<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But they got a place down there that&#8217;s just for you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>There&#8217;s a waitress at the back bar, goes with the guy that runs the place (yeah, she does)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She&#8217;s got hair like a weeping willow and tears running down her face (every day)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She&#8217;s seen a lot of guys like you coming around (I&#8217;ve seen tears in her eyes)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Looking for something that they&#8217;ve lost, or trying to lose something that they&#8217;ve found<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Down at Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>So if you&#8217;re down on your spirit and there ain&#8217;t no one who cares<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you&#8217;re lost and you&#8217;re lonely, you won&#8217;t be lonely down there (oh no)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You can&#8217;t miss it, it&#8217;s just up the highway, on the front door there&#8217;s a sign that says<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Restricted to the losing kind<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Man, it must have killed Bruce not to provide those call-and-response backing vocals, but Chuck Jackson more than ably rises to the occasion, especially on that terrific final couplet in the last verse.<\/p>\n<p>(Bruce seems to have been taken with that &#8220;losin&#8217; kind&#8221; turn of phrase, because we have a demo of an original song by that name written at around the same time as &#8220;Club Soul City.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Despite his many performances with Bonds over the years, Bruce has never played &#8220;Club Soul City&#8221; live. The closest he came was during a 1992 soundcheck in Milan; you can hear him working out the song below. It&#8217;s too bad the song never made it to the setlist during that tour&#8211;&#8220;Club Soul City&#8221; would have been a good fit for the 1992-93 touring band.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CSC Milano 1992 by Brucebase Wiki\" width=\"758\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F437507529&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=758\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Club Soul City<br \/>\nRecorded:<\/strong> February 1982<br \/>\n<strong>Released:\u00a0<\/strong><em>On the Line\u00a0<\/em>(1982)<br \/>\n<strong>Never performed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 May 7, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 1982 album On the Line, Gary U.S. Bonds covers Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;Heartbreak Hotel&#8221; re-write, &#8220;Club Soul City.&#8221; 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