American Worker

american worker

Track Listings

1. American Worker

2. New Shoes

3. Last Forever

4. Opportunity

5. Heart and Soul

6. I Get Lost

7. Soul Surfing

8. Yellow Lights

9. Falling in Love

10. I Believe

American Worker,The BusBoys,Arista,Album Rock,Bar Band,Pop/Rock,Popular Music,Rock,Rock & Roll,United States of America

American Worker

Average customer rating:

Incredible
They're Jammin'
I Waited Years for This CD
Hidden Gem
An under rated album....

American Worker
The BusBoys
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000ENC7QS
Release Date: 2006-04-11

Tracks:

American Worker
New Shoes
Last Forever
Opportunity
Heart And Soul
I Get Lost
Soul Surfing
Yellow Lights
Falling In Love
I Believe

Album Description

The Bus Boys are an R&B group from Los Angeles who in the early 1980's issued two charting albums on Arista Records. "American Worker" was their second album originally hitting the Billboard chards in 1982. It is making its worldwide CD release with this issue.

Customer Reviews:

Incredible.......2007-05-14

The CD was in great shape. It arrived quickly and I had no issues at all with the seller. Thank you for being simply incredible.

They're Jammin'.......2006-10-28

I've had this LP for years. I recently purchased the CD. These guys are just GREAT! Where to start? These guys are rockin' just like they did in 48 hours, or on Saturday Night Live. However, this time they show a bit more of their versatility while sticking to their rock n roll roots. This is good old fashioned rock and roll. REALLY. "American Workers" rocks. Last Forever is a vintage rockin' love song.(you'll dig it) "I get lost" is a serious heavy rocking commentary on racism and the disappointment one feels when they are raised to believe in the American Dream only to have that dream turned into a nightmare by "some of the HATE people held inside" to quote a lyric from the song.(with an infectious riff that you'll play over and over) Soul Surfing had me doing the dance, "the patty duke" and remembering those annette funicello, frankie avalon flicks on saturday mornings. (lol) Then there's all the rest of the songs on the CD. Just GREAT!

Another incredibly underrated band with some serious things to say. This is just some GOOD OL' ROCK N ROLL, the way it was meant to be played!

give it a shot, you'll find something that you'll like.

I Waited Years for This CD.......2006-08-20

When I began to convert my LPs to CD, the Bus Boys' "Minimum Wage Rock & Roll" was one of my first purchases. For some reason, the band's follow-up album "American Worker" was never released. For many years I searched and searched, and when I finally broke down and bought the TEAC GF-350 to record my old LP's to CD, this album was one of the first few I recorded. And then Arista finally released "American Worker" on CD in April 2006!

It's a fun album - not quite up to "Minimum Wage Rock & Roll", but with some great cuts like "Opportunity", the title track "American Worker", and my favorite, "Heart and Soul", on which the Bus Boys take the tune to town. If you like the Huey Lewis version, you should love the Bus Boys.

Hidden Gem.......2006-05-16

Arista couldn't figure out how to market a black funk-rock band. Most blacks were into r&b funk and disco and hiphop hadn't yet proven that white audiences would respond to aggressive lyrics and music from black artists.

These guys were good and this CD aged well, even though their debut was even better. There are several types of Rock songs on here (only Soul Surfing, a surf-rock jam with social lyrics addressing the band's fish-nor-fowl identity echoes the feel of their first album). They performed New Shoes in the movie 48 Hours, which is how I came to be interested in them.

Heart and Soul was covered the very next year by Huey Lewis and The News was a chart hit (bittersweet for the Bus Boys, no doubt). In fact, Huey Leweis & the News could be seen as a more radio-friendly, white-bread counterpart to The Bus Boys' sociopolitical funk-rock. I think the content of this album probably reflected pressure from Arista to make something more radio-friendly. To no avail; they left Arista after this album.

Anyway, pick it up, you won't regret it. The strongest cuts are New Shoes, Last Forever, Opportunity, Heart and Soul, I Get Lost, Soul Surfing, which make up the middle 6 songs this 10 song set.

An under rated album...........2006-04-17

...from an under rated group. I had seen these guys about four or five times in the early eighties and was completely blown away by the shear exuberance they showed on stage....I only wished they continued to record way back when (and now).

This album (tape) virtually never left my player - it has party style rock, socio-political rock and a ballad or two thrown in for a tight, balanced batch of songs. It plays very well IMO.

I've been a big fan for twenty six (26) years and hope you will be, too. Go to thier website (www.busboys.com) and give them the support they need.

Michael

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