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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 January 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.soulexpress.net/deep1_2014.htm
TOP-10 in 2013 *
(Full-length, new official releases)
1. Otis Clay: Truth Is2. Latimore: Remembers Ray Charles3. Johnny Rawls: Remembering O.V.4. Jeffrey Osborne: A Time For Love5. Charles Bradley: Victim Of Love6. Vel Omarr: Cookin’ With Vel Omarr7. Wendell B: Get To Kno’ Me8. Will Downing: Silver9. The Mighty Clouds Of Joy: All That I Am, Chapter 110. Lola: Cleaning House© Heikki Suosalo
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
Bobby Rush got nominated for a grammy but lost to Get Up!,” Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite.
Figures...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
RIP Norton Records r'n'b artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hannibal
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
are so excited
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 February 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm still behind. Been listening to the Stylistics and West African music instead
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
I gotta check out Daddy B. Nice's website for ideas, and you should too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 February 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
That's sad obviously
website obits are popping up now. He was just 60
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 February 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
x-post-- Sad that Floyd died from a heart attack just like his dad. We need a southern soul healthcare package
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 March 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
wonder if xchuckxx or Ron Wynn have written anything about Southern soul lately?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
me want
Still need to do this. Plus I need to bring acts to DC somehow
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 March 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
That's Memorial Day weekend. I hope I'm not away.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 31 March 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
That was great. Latimore's "Let's Straighten it Out" is an awesome soul tune
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Good Mother's Day shows down south
Sunday, May 11, 2014. Albany Civic Center, 100 West Oglethorpe Blvd., Albany, Georgia. 1st Annual Southern Soul Mother's Day Concert. Theodis Ealey, Ms. Jody, Lacey, Lebrado, Klass Band Brotherhood. 850-238-5329. 229-430-5200.
3 pm, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Laurel Fairground, 1457 Ellisville Blvd., Laurel, Mississippi. Mother's Day Blues Festival. Sweet Angel, Sir Charles Jones, O.B. Buchana, Andre Lee, Chris Ivy, Lacee, Kenne Wayne, Bobby Rush, Nellie "Tiger" Travis. 734-994-0138. Gates open at 12 Noon.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
Get better soon blogger Daddy B. Nice
The large lung mass/tumor that necessitated Daddy B. Nice's partial lobectomy surgery proved to be benign. That is the good news: NO CANCER. But a day after his discharge Daddy B. Nice's lung collapsed, necessitating another round of painful surgery. He returned home from another round of surgery only a day or two ago. Daddy B. Nice is very weak and has been unable to get to his e-mails or listen to any new music. He feels extremely apologetic about letting down his readers and recording artists who have written in with concert dates and so on. Please understand that Daddy B. Nice does not have a smart phone or even a laptop computer to use while sitting in bed--only an old desktop computer that requires sitting up at a desk.
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2014.cfm
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 May 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
I gotta find this Daddy B. Nice fave
1. "Here In The South" -------Big John Cummings
"Everybody's talking about the Dirty South."
How I wish I could play this for you on YouTube! And if the song dies it will only be from lack of exposure, because it's the best, low-key, country-sounding single since "Mississippi Boy" and the first great surprise single of 2014. I could even see Bigg Robb doing a super-charged cover version.
Technically, it came out last year on the Ecko compilation, Blues Mix 11: Sweet Soul Blues.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45804/biker-festival-at-american-legion-post-170-sunday-may-25/
Sunday--Mel Waiters and Ms. Jody live, kinda near me. Should be great
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
If I had used southern soul in the title of this thread instead of "chitlin circuit" I guess a few more people would have posted here. But they'd probably just talk about collector vinyl reissues of obscure 60s soul
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
Nothing wrong with that stuff, I just like my Mel Waiters with his synthesizer and guitar rhythms and 2014 lyrics also
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Not southern soul but coming out soon on Shout UK that might be of interest:
Willie Jones, ‘soul’ singer, from Detroit with album recorded in Nashville with guest input from Steve Cropper, produced by Jon Tiven, recorded about 18 months ago
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 May 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Had fun at the Black Biker fest Sunday. Mel Waiters rushed through his set, but his voice still sounded great. MS. Jody was soulful and sometimes over-the-top raunchy with her tongue. D.C. area band the Hardway Connection were wonderful. Their male and female lead singers have strong effective voices. I missed Louisiana's Ghetto cowboy but met him and bought his cd.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Both Waiters and Ms. Jody had great old-school proficient soul bands but with keyboards of course to add some modern flavor. Waiters had a young sax player, and 2 keyboardists in addition to bass, guitar, drums and a femal vocalist. All the guys in matching vests; while Waiterswas in his trademark shiny blue long suit jacket
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I need to recruit elsewhere for more folks who will comment here
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Mel Waiters is more interesting to me than ilx fave Owen Padgett
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
And more impressive than Future Islands too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Curtis Harding (young Atlanta guitar-playing soul singer on Burger records) is getting more pixels and ink attention these days then Mel Waiters. I have not heard him yet.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 June 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
I listened to a song from Harding that I kinda liked.
I need to hear more, plus more Southern soul. A pal of mine saw Millie Jackson down in South Carolina. She came on so late (lots of acts on the bill & problems changing between them) he said that there weren't may folks still there by the time she came onstage. Mel Waiters was also on the bill
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Couldn't get my nephews and nieces to line-dance to Ms. Jody at my wedding reception. She sounded great though...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
Part of a Spotify offline playlist. She was not actually there, alas.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Gonna be elsewhere Saturday and have to miss Nellie Tiger Travis at Lamonts. Too bad, southern soul shows don't happen too often in the DC area
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Carolina beach music
fyi
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 August 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
xchuckx come back, I need someone else here who cares about music made by older African-Americans that is not jazz. Its obscurity and the signifiers with it, seem to discourage others from listening.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Y'all are going to these events, right? courtesy Daddy B. Nice's calendar at southernsoulrnb.com
8 pm, Friday, August 29, 2014. Bastrop Municipal Center, 1901 Moeller Dr., Bastrop, Louisiana. Carl Sims, T.K. Soul, Ms. Jody. Doors open at 7 pm. 318-512-3614, 318-283-3320.
Friday, August 29, 2014. M & J Lounge, 132 Georgetown St., Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Monica Short Birthday Party. LaMorris Williams, Dave Mack, T-Baby. 601-214-2095. BYOB. Doors open at 8 pm.
Friday, August 29 and Saturday, August 30, 2014. Bottleneck Blues Bar, Ameristar Casino Hotel, 4146 Washington Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Back-to-back CD Release Parties. Grady Champion. 800-700-7770.
7 pm, Saturday, August 30, 2014. Union County Fairgrounds, 334 W. Hillsboro St., El Dorado, Arkansas. 9th Annual Southern Soul Showdown. Vick Allen, Avail Hollywood, Jeff Floyd, Willie P., Columbus Toy, Nicky Parrish. Gates open at 6 pm. 870-866-7441 or 870-864-0350.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
Ooh just noticed this Sat. the 30th event near me: Bolling Club, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, 50 Theisen St., Washington, DC. Millie Jackson. 202-563-8400.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link