Bruce Springsteen has Sam Moore – a friend and colleague of the E Street rocker the death of the soul legend honored on Friday at the age of 89.
“At E Street we are heartbroken by the passing of Sam Moore. “One of America’s greatest soul voices,” Springsteen wrote on social media Saturday. “There is simply no sound in American music like Sam’s soulful tenor.”
Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to Sam Moore:
Sam Moore, who once described Bruce Springsteen as “one of my best friends“, appeared with him both on stage and in the recording studio. Moore sang at three Human touch-Titles in the background. While Springsteen is listening to Moore’s “Better to have and not need“ retaliated.
Springsteen and Moore also appeared on stage together on a number of occasions. Especially at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary concert in October 2009 in New York. Where they performed “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’” with the E Street Band.
Bruce Springsteen and Sam Moore:
“I have had the honor of working with Sam on several occasions. “He was a kind and funny man,” Springsteen wrote on Saturday. “It was full of stories from the halcyon days of soul music. And until the end he had a touch of deep authenticity in his voice that I could only marvel at.”
Springsteen, who said in a 2022 interview that “Sam and Dave were hugely important to my musical development” and called Moore “our greatest living soul singer,” added in his tribute: “We pray for his wife, Joyce. And thank Sam for the immortal recordings he left us. God bless him.”
After the news of Moore’s death wrote Steven Van Zandt, member of Springsteen’s E Street Band, on social media: “RIP Sam Moore. One of the last great soul men. He and Dave Prater were the inspiration for me and Johnny to start Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. An important, just, wonderful man.”