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

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.

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

Couldn't get my nephews and nieces to line-dance to Ms. Jody at my wedding reception. She sounded great though...

Part of a Spotify offline playlist. She was not actually there, alas.

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

Carolina beach music

fyi

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.

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.

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.

David Whiteis, author of a book on southern soul, is not on twitter. Not surprising

I did see Hardway Connection once this summer so i don't feel that bad about missing them now for free at Carter barron in DC. But maybe I do

Certainly as fun as FKA Twigs or some Sonic Youth member's latest band,

WPFW 89.3 dj (online too) just played Theodis Ealey's "Stand Up in It". Still sounds good. Now he's playing Shirley Brown's smouldering "I've gotta sleep with one eye open"

Mel Waiters "Got My Whiskey" is a great one too

6 pm, Sunday, September 7, 2014. Club Me & U, 820 Cooper Road, Suite H (Candlestick Shopping Center), Jackson, Mississippi. Charles Evers Birthday Bash. Willie Clayton, Bobby Rush, Reverend Joe A. Washington, LaMorris Williams, Ms. Jody, Nellie "Tiger" Travis, Little Miss Soul, T-Baby. Doors open at 4 pm. Admission at the door only. BYOB. 601-398-0784.

So many fun acts

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2014.cfm

Lots of fascinating observations and references and links to music that is happening now. Southern soul lives!

Maybe I should start posting youtubes here

WDIA AM in Memphis plays southern soul every Saturday from 6 am to midnight. You just have to put up with a bunch of psas and commercials on the half-hour. Its online