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Cecily Wilborn #1 Single March! Best Collaboration 2023!Daddy B. Nice's #262 ranked Southern Soul Artist![]() |
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Cecily Wilborn #1 Single March! Best Collaboration 2023! Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .
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Listen to Cecily Wilborn & West Love singing "Southern Man" on YouTube. Buy Cecily Wilborn's single "Southern Man" featuring West Love. ![]() Originally published on Daddy B. Nice's Corner February 18, 2024: Daddy B. Nice's News & Notes"Texas Hold 'Em," Beyonce's unabashedly country-western-styled dance jam, is generating controversy amongst country music deejays across America. The same thing---in reverse---is happening on a lesser scale in the world of southern soul. I'm not just talking about the preponderance of cowboy hats, "daisy dukes" and boots, horses, trail rides, pickups and musical blending of country themes into southern soul that has been going on now for roughly a decade since Big Yayo's pre-cowboy-hat-wearing "Cowgirl" appeared and a half-decade since Jeter Jones' "Black Horse" officially kicked off the "country-fication" of southern soul. Nor am I even talking about the avalanche of country-styled tunes and titles that have followed, songs like Jus Epik's & Money Waters' "Country Girl," in which country influences both musical and lyrical customize a still sturdy southern soul chassis.
![]() ![]() I recently stumbled upon a song that came out in the latter part of 2023 called "Back Roads" by GMB Li Curt and ShawtyMac, just a couple of the black artists including K.D. Conner, Curt The Countryman and Countryboi Tye currently recording country. Marcellus The Singer actually guests on another version of the song by Curt The Countryman. "Back Roads" is too good to ignore, but I confess to almost feeling guilty enjoying it because it is country, man, so much so that when the rap verse came in I felt a twinge of relief because, ironically, the rap validated it as a contemporary southern soul song! As long as there has been country music there have been black country artists. The great Ray Charles straddled both genres like a colossus back in my young day. But here's the kicker. These new songs ARE pure country. They're not southern soul. If a new generation of musicians follows suit, you can't really call it southern soul anymore. Or can you? ![]() --Daddy B. Nice |
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