May 19, 2020: LaMorris Williams New Album Alert! Buy LaMorris William's new UNFINISHED BUSINESS album at Google Play. Listen to all the tracks from LaMorris Williams' new ANOTHER LEVEL on YouTube. Scroll down for Daddy B Nice's synopsis.īuy LaMorris Williams' new ANOTHER LEVEL album at Apple. UNFINISHED BUSINESS is still in play, marketing-wise, actually charting higher than ANOTHER LEVEL on some charts. "Stay Here Forever" typifies LaMorris's renewed focus on beauty and intimacy. ANOTHER LEVEL is no MISSISSIPPI MOTOWN, lauded by Daddy B Nice as Williams' "masterpiece" (see Tidbits #6 by scrolling down this page), but songs like "Everything I Got" recall the pristine production and supple melodies (along with explicit lyrics) that made MISSISSIPPI MOTOWN such a gorgeous collection. (Scroll down.) The new set is small-seven tracks-perhaps a response to Daddy B Nice's summation of UNFINISHED BUSINESS as an emotionally "down" album. Nice notes: ANOTHER LEVEL follows quickly on the heels of UNFINISHED BUSINESS, released by LaMorris earlier this year. November 28, 2020: LaMorris Williams New Album Alert! Buy LaMorrris Williams' new ANOTHER LEVEL CD at Amazon.ĭaddy B. Nice's Top 100 Countdown: The New Generation (Chart In Progress) LaMorris Williams (New Album Alert!) Daddy B. Listen to Westdawn singing “Strong Country Man” on YouTube.LaMorris Williams (New Album Alert!) - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB Not to be confused with West Love, Westdawn follows up on her “I Want To Love You” debut (#5, April 2020) in convincing style. Listen to Chris Ivy singing “Thick N Juicy” on YouTube.ġ0. Ivy (Chris Ivy) when he came out with “Turn Road,” which is high praise. album sound as authentic and gritty as Mr. Listen to Isaac Lindsay singing “Sho’ Wasn’t Me” on YouTube.Ī lot of these new singers on Beat Flippa’s new P.O.T.Y. The Delta singer who recorded a fine cover of Joe Simon’s “Chokin’ Kind” (#6, October 2020) steps on “holy ground” when he tackles Ronnie Lovejoy’s (not Tyrone Davis’s or Bill Coday’s or anyone else’s) “Sho’ Wasn’t Me”. Your Daddy B Nice vacillated but has eventually been won over: it’s not the original but it’s pretty damned good. Listen to Wilson Meadows singing “We Doin’ Alright” on YouTube. Wilson’s always had a knack for finding and milking that one hook everybody else overlooked, and even as he ages he retains his smoldering “cool”. “We doin’ all right,” Wilson croons, “let’s leave it that way,” in a hot-plate single that even hardcore funksters will appreciate. Listen to LaMorris Williams singing “Stay Here Forever” on YouTube.ħ.
Just when you start to count a guy out, he gets up off the mat and comes back. Listen to Derrick Salter singing “We Steppin'” on You Tube.Ħ. Here’s another Beat Flippa instrumental track with a gorgeous bottom and a “wall of sound” that leaves you gasping with pleasure, not to mention a head-turning vocal from yet another (Hisyde and Benito having been just cited) young virtuoso who loves southern soul music. Listen to Ricky Wayne and Louisiana Wil singing “Teach My Son”ĥ.
“I’m going to teach my son/ How to be a real man./ Make Shorty know the truth,/ And make Shorty understand.” It has a hook, simple but effective, and it’s got that scruffy, one-take, “Mississippi Boy”-like production, but lyrically this song is #1. Kida singing “Sunshine” on Jackson Music Awards Spotlight Soul Recording of The Week on Facebook.Ĥ. “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day,” she sings, “But Baby, it ain’t cool when you push me away… “ Kida has no idea she has a hit single in the making with this melodious riff on David Ruffin and The Temptations’ “My Girl”. Ain’t that right, playas? And that’s exactly what “Sunshine” accomplishes on a recent DJ Sir Rockinghood mixtape as well as this month’s Daddy B Nice singles. We “playas” need our honeys breaking up the “rowdy-rowdy,” southern soul raucousness with their refreshing, dulcet harmonies. Listen to Beat Flippa, Benito & Lady Q singing “Nose Wide Open” on YouTube. Beat Flippa on the tracks-both from P.O.T.Y. Now it’s Benito (the youngster who did “Guademala”) and Lady Q’s turn, and it’s not only the young bull’s (Benito’s) nostrils flaring Lady Q’s nose is quivering too.
Magic One scored with his soulful version of “Nose Wide Open” in September (#3).
The term refers to someone, most usually a male, who is completely smitten by a female. Time to retire “sidepiece” and welcome “nose wide open” as the new “go-to” meme of southern soul. “Nose Wide Open”-–Beat Flippa, Benito & Lady Q. Listen to Beat Flippa, Hisyde & Avail Hollywood singing “Is It Ova?” on YouTube.Ģ.