The Electric Souls

The Electric Souls make their sound by bringing Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson into the 21st century with an true-to-Blues amplified sound while staying knee-deep in the Mississippi Delta mud. It’s a lowdown sound with a tinge of the psychedelic modern influence and stays living by Louis Armstrong’s motto. The Electric Souls make every show unique by letting the music flow through them and living in the moment. The Electric Souls have been playing since 2005 recording two studio albums as well as a live album capturing their raw energy. Another live album is in the works and you can be part of it by screaming out loud at the next show put on by The Electric Souls! - Greater Cincinnati Blues Society

The Electric Souls make their sound by bringing Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson into the 21st century with an true-to-Blues amplified sound while staying knee-deep in the Mississippi Delta mud. It’s a lowdown sound with a tinge of the psychedelic modern influence and stays living by Louis Armstrong’s motto. The Electric Souls make every show unique by letting the music flow through them and living in the moment. The Electric Souls have been playing since 2005 recording two studio albums as well as a live album capturing their raw energy. Another live album is in the works and you can be part of it by screaming out loud at the next show put on by The Electric Souls! - Greater Cincinnati Blues Society

The Electric Souls make their sound by bringing Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson into the 21st century with an true-to-Blues amplified sound while staying knee-deep in the Mississippi Delta mud. It’s a lowdown sound with a tinge of the psychedelic modern influence and stays living by Louis Armstrong’s motto. The Electric Souls make every show unique by letting the music flow through them and living in the moment. The Electric Souls have been playing since 2005 recording two studio albums as well as a live album capturing their raw energy. Another live album is in the works and you can be part of it by screaming out loud at the next show put on by The Electric Souls!

- Greater Cincinnati Blues Society

At 7 pm. Saturday, Rock trio The Electric Souls are having a party (with free beer, food and wine!) in honor of their new CD, House on Fire, at 7th Street Gifts in Newport. The band shows a peculiar yet enjoyable versatility on the album, with practically every track sounding different from the last. Opening cut "The Light" feels like Echo and The Bunnymen, "General Lee" has the lo-fi Pop effusiveness of Robert Pollard, "Conjure You Up" grinds heavily like an old Mountain outtake and "Hear My Baby Calling" and Roll & Tumble" are minimalistic, haunting Blues numbers.

Mike Breen - Citybeat Music Editor - Cincinnati City Beat

The influences that the Electric Souls claim read like the vinyl collection of a brilliant stoner with impeccable taste in the acid-etched Classic Rock of the '70s and the subsequently influenced next-generation purveyors of the '90s and '00s. (Why, yes, that is my collection ... thank you for noticing.) The Electric Souls channel the purest intentions from their earliest influences and infuse them with the Garage-fueled power of now.
Dig It: Ten Years After playing mumblypeg with Eric Burdon at the Woodstock Museum while the ghosts of Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix take side bets. (BB) - City Beat - Sept 10, 2008

With traces of his South Carolina, Georgia and Texas origins muting the flat midwestern accents that surround him, Scott Crisler's words are infused with passion when he speaks of his music. Inspired by his mother who played piano and organ in church and a grandfather who played the harmonica, Scott's musical talents emerged amongst the ghost stories and folklore that abound in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, a place Scott describes as being "in my soul." Nostalgia for the romance of the South is evident in his CD, House on Fire. Recently it was reviewed in City Beat as having an "... enjoyable versatility ... with practically every track sounding different from the last." Scott has written all the songs on this CD.
"My brother," explains Scott, "is a luthier. He builds and repairs stringed instruments. Five years older than I, he played in a band and I listened faithfully. He taught me to play the guitar; then I had formal lessons. I really picked up the guitar so I could write my own songs. Improvising and creating is what compels me to play. Many musicians have influenced me, but the first time I heard Jimi Hendrix's music, I was just blown away."
...Scott continues to compose and play. Recently the band he plays in, The Electric Souls, played at the Seventh Street Gift Shop and at Together. Paul Riopel plays bass, Dan Stefano plays drums...
Always a favorite at the Monroe Street Block Party, the band performed recently at Newport on the Levee and at the Mid Point Music Festival on Main Street in Cincinnati. The lyrics to "The Ghost of Mansion Hill" reveal his affinity for the historic East Row which he describes as a wonderful place full of convivial neighbors and friends..."looks like the gardens are full tonight, starry eyes are feeling right...."
Married to local attorney Brenda Bonecutter, Scott and Brenda are expecting their first child in February. - THE VOICE - Volume 7, Issue 11: November 2006