The Soulful Strings has been played on NTS shows including House Call, with Paint It Black first played on 7 June 2015.

Cadet, the soul label of the legendary Chess Records in Chicago, hired Richard Evans, a talented and underappreciated arranger who worked with jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, Sun Ra among others, to create a series of orchestral albums of current pop hits under the name The Soulful Strings.