Bruce Springsteen Honors Sam Moore in Heartfelt Tribute

Bruce Springsteen is honoring Sam Moore following the soul icon’s passing at 89 on Friday (Jan. 10).

Taking to social media on Saturday, Springsteen shared a heartfelt message: “Over on E Boulevard, we’re heartbroken to listen to of the dying of Sam Moore, considered one of The usa’s largest soul voices,” the Boss wrote on Instagram. “There merely isn’t any other sound like Sam’s soulful tenor in American song.”

The 2 pals shared each the degree and studio over time. Moore contributed backing vocals to a number of tracks on Springsteen’s 1992 album, Human Contact, whilst Springsteen reciprocated on Moore’s 2006 music “Higher to Have and No longer Want.”

One in all Springsteen and Moore’s maximum memorable are living performances came about on the Rock and Roll Corridor of Popularity’s twenty fifth anniversary live performance in New York in October 2009, the place they joined the E Boulevard Band to accomplish “Soul Guy” and “Cling On, I’m Comin’.”

“Having had the honour to paintings with Sam on a number of events, he was once a candy and humorous guy,” Springsteen persevered in his put up. “He was once full of shops of the halcyon days of soul song, and to the tip had the brink of deep authenticity in his voice I may simplest surprise at.”

Moore, part of the seminal duo Sam & Dave, gave up the ghost in Coral Gables, Fla. The reason for dying was once headaches from surgical procedure.

Along with Springsteen, Moore was once respected by way of artists like Phil Collins, Garth Brooks and Jon Bon Jovi. His in an instant recognizable tenor first won consideration on iconic call-and-response classics comparable to Sam & Dave’s Sixties hits “Cling On, I’m Coming” and the Grammy-winning “Soul Guy,” either one of which crowned Billboard’s Scorching R&B Singles chart. Moore additionally made his mark with different undying tracks like “I Thank You” and “When One thing Is Unsuitable with My Child.”

Following Moore’s dying on Friday, Springsteen’s E Boulevard bandmate Steven Van Zandt additionally paid tribute on social media.

“RIP Sam Moore. Probably the most closing of the good Soul Males, he wrote on X. “Him and Dave Prater had been the muse for me and Johnny to start out Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Crucial righteous superb guy.

See Springsteen’s tribute to Moore on Instagram underneath.