
The liner notes in the CD booklet of Heavy Music (Beatville) by Sweden’s Soulshake Express are almost forty years old, borrowed (with a credit) from the back of the Jeff Beck Group’s 1969 howitzer-guitar classic, Beck-Ola: “Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it’s almost impossible to come up with anything totally original. So we haven’t. However, at the time this album was made, the accent was on heavy music.” If you’re going to quote from the best, you’d better be a bruiser yourself, and the Soulshake Express — singer-guitarist David Eriksson, guitarist Marcus Andersson, bassist Robert Schlyter, drummer Joakim Eriksson and organist Martin Hammar — make all the right noises, as if they were born and raised under the floorboards at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom. If they don’t do it live already, the Express should cover Bob Seger’s crushing 1967 single “Heavy Music.” They’ve got what it takes.
Fricke’s Picks: Soulshake Express
3/28/08, 12:50 pm EST
Comments
Philip | 7/22/2008, 8:01 am EST
the guitarist marcus lives in an apartment owned by my dad!
Mike | 4/1/2008, 4:55 pm EST
Amazing! Thanks for finding this awsome music for me!
The Swede | 3/31/2008, 9:28 am EST
Oh, very nice! I totally agree, they really should cover Bob Seger’s “Heavy Music”. It’s a great, great song and it would sound cool Soulshakified.
Berkeley | 3/30/2008, 4:30 pm EST
I heard their first EP not long ago and I really like that one as well. I’ll sure check this one out! Thanks!
karl | 3/29/2008, 4:08 am EST
They are the best!
Dan | 3/28/2008, 9:42 pm EST
David Fricke’s heard of Soulshake Express. Awesome. I first got word of them through Classic Rock magazine - yeah, they’re nothing revelatory, but damn, they’re fun.




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