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SOUL ASYLUM
www.soulasylum.com
• 1993 GRAMMY Award Winner - Best Rock Song
• Double-platinum 1992 release, "Grave Dancers Union"
Soul Asylum's enduring success is as much due to the group's steadfast maturation as it is to a reputation for a clear sense of independence; few would disagree with the Village Voice's assessment of once crowning them with "Best Live Band" honors in their prestigious year-end music awards. Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy, Karl Mueller played together in 1981, calling themselves Loud Fast Rules while rapidly becoming a steady draw at Minneapolis' legendary 7th Street Entry. After redubbing the themselves Soul Asylum, the group cut its first two recordings - the Say What You Will EP and Made To Be Broken - with HÜsker DÜ's Bob Mould as producer; despite a deceptively hardcore veneer, hints of the music that more accurately informed their sound - the broad, true sound of 70s FM AOR radio, the pop sensibilities of the Replacements and Big Star, and even the rebel acoustic folkisms of Bob Dylan - were already beginning to surface. Both While You Were Out and Hang Time were solidly embraced by college and underground radio, and Soul Asylum was by now a dedicated band of rock & roll road warriors with a steadily growing and increasingly enthusiastic fan-base. Soul Asylum's move to Columbia Records in 1992 found them taking a bold step forward and ascending the retail and radio airplay charts like never before with the release of the RIAA double-platinum breakthrough album Grave Dancers Union - with the hits "Somebody To Shove" and the watershed phenomenon "Runaway Train" - and the ambitious follow-up, Let Your Dim Light Shine.
NOTE: Dave Pirner (lead signer) is available for solo performances.
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