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

I need to confirm that Lamont's in Pomonkey are having a 25th anniversary party Saturday night with the Hardway Connection. Why is the club so bad at promotion? No website and now, not even old-school Globe posters up.

It did happen. But I missed it. I'm loving this old 2010 cut from Mel Waiters: "The Smaller the Club(the bigger the party)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2EGp66Q98

Gonna try to get some DC area club to book Mel Waiters.

I am hoping Rodgers Redding in Macon , GA can get a DC club to book some southern soul, maybe even Mel Waiters. C'mon D.C. club booking agents...

Gave Redding all the info I had, hopefully D.C. clubs will be open-minded and they can agree on numbers that work

No word yet. Money issues or non-visionary DC booking agents could be the problem.

As for the music, I still need to hear that most recent OB Buchana effort

I need to just buy that OB album, or get some reviews printed and beg to get on a press mailing list

Still no word from Otis Redding's brother re any success in booking DC Southern soul shows. Grrrr. I need to write more reviews and get the local club owners to see them.

I like the new Mel Waiters album, Poor Side Of Town (on a label called Brittney), even more than that O.B.

Ecko compilation Blues Mix 11: Sweet Soul Blues is also one of my favorites of the year.

I think Brittney is Mel's own label. I like what I have heard of that Mel release too

Listened to Mel again this morning (on Spotify). Some great cuts on that one. A few are in a almost quiet storm more polished manner--not as much my cup of tea, but still listenable

I missed Lee Fields at the 930 Club last night (I was seeing Bale Folclorico de Bahia). He gets to play there because he has done things with Daptone. Thus, he has indie-rock cred with certain booking agents and fans, while Mel Waiters does not.

Mel Waiters "Pouring Salt" is in my head. Now if I could only see him live

I love Mel's metaphors

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.