Around the Horn is the third album by Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based alternative country

Alternative country

Alternative country is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music...

 band Souled American

Souled American

Souled American is an American alternative country band from Chicago, that was active mostly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band has its origins in Normal, a college town in central Illinois and revolves around vocalists Chris Grigoroff and Joe Adducci who previously played in a band...

. It was released in 1990 by Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records

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, and re-released, as part of the Framed box set, by tUMULt Records in 1999. According to Allmusic, "Around the Horn shows the band now fully master of a unique kind of Americana, here much more melancholy and gently downbeat than ever before, guitars more apt to ring softly or solitarily than anything else. The dub

Dub music

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 and r'n'b

Rhythm and blues

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 touches prevalent on the first two albums aren't as apparent here, but what the band loses in relative breadth it more than makes up for in atmosphere."

Track listing

1. "Around The Horn" – 3:43
2. "Second of All" – 4:01
3. "Old, Old House" – 3:31
4. "Durante's Hornpipe" – 2:02
5. "Rise Above It" – 6:10
6. "Six Feet of Snow" – 4:18
7. "Willdawg" – 3:23
8. "I Keep Holding Back the Tears" – 4:26
9. "You" – 4:11
10. "Luggy Di" – 2:39
11. "In the Mud" – 2:19

All songs by Souled American except "Old, Old House" by George Jones

George Jones

George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....

, "Six Feet of Snow" by Little Feat

Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....

, "Durante's Hornpipe" (traditional), and "I Keep Holding Back the Tears" by bassist Joe Adducci's mother.

Personnel

• Joe Adducci – bass, vocals
• Jamey Barnard – drums
• Chris Grigoroff – guitar, vocals
• Scott Tuma
  Scott Tuma
  Scott Tuma is a musician from Chicago who is best known for having played guitar in the pioneering alt-country band Souled American. Since his departure from Souled American in the late 1990s Tuma has released three solo albums, performed and recorded with Chicago's Boxhead Ensemble, and...
  
  – guitar
• Jaimo (Jaimo Welch) - trombone on "Second of All"