Previously Unreleased David Bowie LP ‘The Gouster’ Set For Release

Good news from the David Bowie vaults. A previously unreleased David Bowie album titled The Gouster will be released as part of a new box set.

The Gouster was Bowie’s known experimental foray into soul and funk, but it later became his 1975 album Young Americans. It includes tracks like “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and “Can You Hear Me” and the title tack from the singer’s ninth studio album of “plastic soul.”

The box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), was announced on Bowie’s Facebook page. Bowie’s longtime friend and producer Tony Visconti were however posted the following online..

“Gouster was a word unfamiliar to me but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the 60s, in Chicago. But in the context of the album its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness. Of all the songs we cut, we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.”

“David had a long infatuation with soul, as did I,” he added. “We were fans of the TV show Soul Train. We weren’t ‘young, gifted and black’ but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which was quite insane, but pioneers like the Righteous Brothers were there before us.”

The Gouster Tracklist

TRACKLIST:
SIDE 1
1. “John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)”
2. “Somebody Up There Likes Me”
3. “It’s Gonna Be Me”

SIDE 2
1. “Who Can I Be Now?”
2. “Can You Hear Me”
3. “Young Americans”
4. “Right”

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