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

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.

That was great. Latimore's "Let's Straighten it Out" is an awesome soul tune

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.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing wrong with that stuff, I just like my Mel Waiters with his synthesizer and guitar rhythms and 2014 lyrics also

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

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.

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

I need to recruit elsewhere for more folks who will comment here

Mel Waiters is more interesting to me than ilx fave Owen Padgett

And more impressive than Future Islands too

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.