Chitlin Circuit Double-entendre -filled Soul 2004 (and onward) Theodis Ealey's "Stand Up In It" is a song of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKHX6plJUDI

WPFW radio keeps playing 2 years later this zydeco/southern soul song "Ride it like a Cowboy (like a rodeo/back that thing up)"
by Kenne Wayne (spelling?) that has inspired a line dance

Great song

I've heard that on the radio here, too, and like it a lot -- Isn't something like 3 years old though? (I feel like I actually came home and checked last time I heard it.) Or is it finally just getting Southern Soul radio play now for some reason?

Thinking there must be a new remix out? I guess

Sorry Southern soul/Chitlin circuit soul, I have been neglecting you. Need to find time and catch up. Was sadly busy with obits for old-school soul singer Al Johnson from the Unifics, and with blues and more guy Bobby Parker of "Watch Your Step" fame.

I've had no luck in getting Mel Waiters booked in D.C. Think I will have to win the lottery and do it myself. Alas, the music crit world also largely ignores this genre

No surprise that Charles Bradley (who does not use programmed rhythms and whose music is marketed to the indie-rock world) is showing up on 2013 Best-of lists, while Mel Waiters is not. I like 'em both, but its bad more folks are not aware of Mel.

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/newcds2009.cfm

I gotta hear Stephanie McDee and the other Louisiana acts he mentions who are doing Southern soul with often with touches of zydeco and other genres

I haven't gotten Mel Waiters a DC gig yet, but I see that 2 ilxors have now proclaimed on that 2013 best-of thread that they like the title track of his latest album. Yay!

Mel Waiters in Kansas City....

Marian Roberson said they wanted to see Mel Waiters, a blues artist known for his hits “Got My Whiskey” and “Hole in the Wall.”
“And we like to dance,” Dennis piped in.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/28/4656451/thanksgiving-breakfast-dance-spins.html#storylink=cpy

this is raw and hiphoppy with zydeco and New Orleans r'n'b touches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HAuYRlAAK8

That one was an adaptation of the Meters; her song "Cheatin' on Me" is more standard Southern soul

Mel's album still sounds great everytime I listen to it

x-post-- youtube of Stephanie McDee. Need to listen to more of her stuff. 2 tracks above mentioned are so different from each other

Daddy B. Nice loves McDee. Shocking I know, but I have not seen her mentioned on any year-end critic polls

Maybe a few folks besides those who usually post here will give Mel Waiters some love in polls

And I'm still trying to get Mel booked in DC...

I need to listen to more of Daddy B. Nice's faves

The current Ms. Jody album sounds good

Stephanie McDee only has 1 song on Spotify if I searched that correctly.

Missed this early December sad news: Chick Stoop Down Baby Willis died

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013/12/passings-chick-willis-1934-2013.html

Barbara Carr and Vick Allen were in Chicago for New years. No Washington DC dates alas.

Shame on me for still having never read this book: Southern Soul-Blues (340 pages, 34 with photos; University of Illinois Press; ISBN 978-0-252-03479-4), by David Whiteis

You and me both.

No surprise that Charles Bradley (who does not use programmed rhythms and whose music is marketed to the indie-rock world) is showing up on 2013 Best-of lists, while Mel Waiters is not. I like 'em both, but its bad more folks are not aware of Mel.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Gonna finally go see Charles live this week. I also have not seen the movie doc about him. Bradley and his Daptone-related band go for an old-school soul approach.

Xchuckx voted for Vick Allen and I voted for Mel Waiters on the Village Voice Critics poll. I haven't looked to see if there were any other votes for Southern soul.

http://www.soulexpress.net/deep1_2014.htm

TOP-10 in 2013 *

(Full-length, new official releases)

1. Otis Clay: Truth Is
2. Latimore: Remembers Ray Charles
3. Johnny Rawls: Remembering O.V.
4. Jeffrey Osborne: A Time For Love
5. Charles Bradley: Victim Of Love
6. Vel Omarr: Cookin’ With Vel Omarr
7. Wendell B: Get To Kno’ Me
8. Will Downing: Silver
9. The Mighty Clouds Of Joy: All That I Am, Chapter 1
10. Lola: Cleaning House
© Heikki Suosalo

Heikki's list is of old-school soul types. No raunchy synth-using Southern soul types for him. But I like folks on his list

Didn't see Johnny Rawls' latest on Spotify so I listened to another recent but older one instead. I like his bluesy soul vocals, though sometimes a little goes a long way.

Bobby Rush got nominated for a grammy but lost to Get Up!,” Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.

Figures...

Sorry Mel Waiters and other Southern soul acts, I can't seem to get you DC gigs or even support on this here forum/chatboard.

RIP Norton Records r'n'b artist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hannibal

http://www.thesoulbasement.com/Site/B._Swann.html

There's an email thing/Yahoo group called southernsoul @yahoogroups .com that is not really interested in the Southern soul with programmed beats discussed here, but in obscure 60s Southern soul. Someone there linked to this above Bettye Swann reissue review, and the folks on that site at so excited about this release. Me, I'm not worthy. I am just discovering Bettye Swann now via Spotify.

are so excited

I am so out of it re this still interesting to me but so marginalized genre. I gotta check out Daddy B. Nice faves on his blog sometime

I'm still behind. Been listening to the Stylistics and West African music instead

I gotta check out Daddy B. Nice's website for ideas, and you should too

David Wh*teis is reporting that Johnnie Taylor's son Floyd, who has become a pretty significant force on the modern southern soul/soul-blues scene in recent YEARS, has passed away.

That's sad obviously

website obits are popping up now. He was just 60

I wish this tour would come back to the DC area---"The Blues is Alright Tour"-- 7 pm, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Duke Energy Center For The Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., Raleigh, North Carolina. 7th Annual Raleigh Blues Festival. Blues Is Alright Tour. Mel Waiters, Sir Charles Jones, Latimore, Theodis Ealey, Klass Band Brotherhood, Maurice Wynn, T.K. Soul.

x-post-- Sad that Floyd died from a heart attack just like his dad. We need a southern soul healthcare package

I'm woefully behind in listening to new releases from this genre and reading Daddy B Nice's blog. Plus live music me fan is unhappy that my efforts to get Mel Waiters to come to DC have not paid off

Via a Yahoo Southern Soul group email:

Movie doc "Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound" the Willie Clarke/old-school Miami soul music film will make its debut at South By Southwest in Austin next week (Tuesday, March 11). That will be followed by a showing at the Miami International Film Festival a week from Friday (March 14) at 8:30 PM, at the Olympia (Gusman) Theatre. A showing later this month in Cleveland may also have been been scheduled. I

wonder if xchuckxx or Ron Wynn have written anything about Southern soul lately?

Will catch up on this stuff sometimes soon, really. Was skimming Daddy B. Nice's website recently and it made want to find an upcoming evening or day to get lost in this great ignored by others music.

me want

Still need to do this. Plus I need to bring acts to DC somehow

Mel Waiters is coming to a Maryland American Legion 5-25 near Lamont's I think. Yay!

Meanwhile whiteboy Alabama soul revivalists St. Paul & the Broken Bones are getting national tv coverage, written about by Lefsetz, and are selling out indie-rock clubs everywhere. Dude can sing, but I'd rather listen to Otis Redding records or current Southern soul than imitators like those guys.

That's Memorial Day weekend. I hope I'm not away.

Ms. Jody and the Hardway Connection are gonna be on the bill also. Awesome. I think the concert is part of a 2 day African-American motorcycle riders get-together. The show the day before is more funk than soul I think.

Latimore is sitting in on keyboards with the Roots on the Jimmy Fallon show. Jimmy just had someone do an imitation of Latimore and then showed Latimore album covers (one with a Mention of "Let's Straighten it Out" on the cover) and briefly talked to him.