Tyree Neal (New Album Alert!)
Daddy B. Nice's #97 ranked Southern Soul Artist
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"I'll Be The Other Man" Tyree Neal (New Album Alert!) April 24, 2022: New Album Alert!Buy Tyree Neal's new YOUNG GOAT OF THE BLUES album at Apple.Young Goat Of The Blues TRACK LIST:1 Shorty Wanna Hear A Blues Song2 We Gettin' It In 3 That Same Woman (feat. Omar Cunningham) 4 Teasing Me 5 Got Me Drinking (feat. Dave Mack) 6 Shake That Booty 7 Lying Again 8 Can't Leave This Club 9 Can't Help Myself (feat. Dee Dee Simon) 10 Run Me My Money 11 Closer I Get To You 12 Just Like Marvin (feat. O. B. Buchana) 13 Should Of Been At Home 14 Tell Me Who's Been Loving You 15 She Said She Got A Man 16 You Gone Get Me In Trouble 17 Dont Leave (feat. Bro Bro) 18 Call On My Jesus Daddy B. Nice notes: Where's the guitar? Where's the precocious picking? Tyree appears determined to make this album succeed on the melodies and vocals alone, not on his unique guitar skills. Yet if Tyree is the GOAT (greatest of all time) in any southern soul category, it's his guitar-picking. And if any single element is conspicuously absent from his new YOUNG GOAT OF THE BLUES album, it's his tasty guitar fills. Omar Cunningham started this whole greatest-of-all-time schtick a couple of years ago, and my unspoken reaction was the same. No way. Now if it was Sir Charles Jones, there'd be a case to be made (in the southern soul genre). But for Omar (who guests on this album) and Tyree to annoint themselves GOAT seems like pointless pontificating. What's the point of it? Although not unversed as a singer, Tyree lacks the the three great ingredients---power, contrast and vision---of the major talents, two of whom are on this album: Omar Cunningham and O.B. Buchana (and three if you count the young Dee Dee Simon). Meanwhile, his true forte'---concise and inspired guitar-picking---is nowhere to be seen, with what may be Beat Flippa or Highway Heavy contributing modest keyboards in the instrumental spaces where we'd expect to hear Tyree. From his early Louisiana studio work to the Louisiana Blues Brothas (with Pokey and Adrian Bagher) through his suprisingly prolific solo career, Tyree Neal has never been a front-and-center guy. He's by nature and character a sidekick, a background fella, an easy-going comrade. And his solo work, some of it quite good, shines most brightly when he accepts his musical gifts and works within them, as he does in "Shorty Wanna Hear A Blues Song" or "Shake That Booty" from the new album. But when he thumbs his nose at his own attributes and tries to be something he's not, the songs all sound the same. In that respect he is no different than respected mainstream singer/guitarists like J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton.
Listen to all the tracks from Tyree Neal's YOUNG GOAT OF THE BLUES album on YouTube. Buy Tyree Neal's YOUNG GOAT OF THE BLUES album at Apple. 
Originally posted in Daddy B Nice's Top 10 Singles for June 2020. 5. "Can Somebody Take Me?"----Tyree Neal feat. Omar Cunningham This is a sweet southern soul tribute with an intoxicating rhythm track and possibly Tyree's best vocal ever. Regular readers know your Daddy B Nice touts Tyree as one of the best (I'd probably say the best right now) guitarists in southern soul but gives short shrift to his laid-back solo efforts. I felt the same way about Eric Clapton. It's the difference between Tyree and Pokey Bear, enough said? But "Can Somebody Take Me" takes Tyree to another level. Mostly invisible on the recording, lending a huge and obviously inspiring hand, is Omar Cunningham. From Tyree's new album, I'm Missing My Baby. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "Can Somebody Take Me?" on YouTube. 
May 1, 2020: Tyree Neal New Album Alert!Buy Tyree Neal's new I'M MISSING MY BABY album at Apple.I'm Missing My Baby TRACK LIST:1Can Somebody Take Me (feat. Omar Cunningham) 2 She Likes It When I Give It to Her (feat. Adlib) 3 Meeting in the Bedroom 4 Clock on the Wall 5 Something Is Wrong and She Knows It 6 Drop It Low 7 Would You Still Stay 8 Blame It All on Me (feat. Dime) 9 Her Man Been Cheating on Her 10 She Love Them Trail Rides and Blues Shows 11 I'm Missing My Baby, Pt. 2 12 Building a Case 13 When I Found You Daddy B. Nice notes: Tyree Neal has been missing his baby for many years now, and longtime fans can be excused for being confused. The new album does recycle the 2013 single "I'm Missing My Babe" as a remix titled "I'm Missing My Baby Part 2," but the showcase song from 2020'S I'M MISSING MY BABY album is actually the lead-off track titled "Can Somebody Take Me," featuring Omar Cunningham. This song may be the finest single of Tyree's career. As a solo recording artist Tyree has always labored under a self-imposed ceiling dictated by his easy-going personality, which has translated into songs with a "light touch". "Can Somebody Take Me" has that trademark, Tyree Neal pleasantness--gentle and winsome--but with a tempo and melody that takes it to another level. With southern soul-oriented lyrics, a catchy chorus and a fleshed-out instrumental track aided by Omar Cunningham, it's a potential hit single.
Buy Tyree Neal's new I'M MISSING MY BABY album at Amazon. Listen to all the tracks from Tyree Neal's I'M MISSING MY BABY album on YouTube. Buy Tyree Neal's I'M MISSING MY BABY album at Apple.
Originally posted in Daddy B. Nice's Mailbag RE: Tyree Neal T-shirtApril 16, 2020:
Hello, Can someone get in touch with me? I went to Tyree Neal's concert and purchased this t-shirt only for them to sale me a dirty and messed up t-shirt. My name is Nettie, I am from Garland, Louisiana now lives in Missouri City, Texas. I would like to get a clean t-shirt and one that the picture is not peeling off. I have never been able to wear this dirty and messed up t-shirt. I don't want to give him or his company a bad review or name, so I'm hoping we can get this resolved as soon as possible. I have attached pictures t-shirt that was sold for $20, just the way it was sold to me after the concert. If we can't get this resolved I will NEVER attend another one of his concerts, but I'm hoping and praying that he will do the right thing in replacing my t-shirt and I will send this one back. Thanks in advance for your time and have a good day. I look forward to hearing from someone soon. Should this not be the correct email address for Tyree Neal, can you supply me with the correct contact information for him or his business manager. I know that Tyree will want to do the right thing and get this misunderstanding right. I'm really shocked that they would sale this type of t-shirt to anyone picture peeling off at the bottom between the last E in Tyree and at the beginning of the N in Neal, it is also dirty. Pray everyone is being safe with this virus going around. Sincerely, Nettie Daddy B. Nice replies: Did you ever get a reply from anyone? Nettie replies: Hello and Happy Easter, no I have not received a response from anyone as of today. Can you have someone contact me? Thanks for your reply and checking with me. Have a good rest of your day! Nettie Daddy B. Nice replies: First, Nettie, I feel bad because I don't have Tyree Neal's contact info at hand. He sends me material frequently and I should have it, but I don't--it's gotten lost in the shuffle. Second, I'm sure Tyree will be glad to get you a new t-shirt if only he is made aware of it. This kind of thing happens. Third, if you have any CD's or other product by Tyree Neal (of if one of your friends does), you will probably find contact information listed on the cover. You might also search on social media, if you have not done so already. Finally, I'll post your letter in the Mailbag, where Tyree or one of his people will undoubtedly see it and notify me, and I'll hook you up. Now don't hold your breath, but I'm sure Tyree will get this resolved. Daddy B. Nice Nettie replies: Aww...this is so sweet of and I really appreciate you for taking out of your time to reply back to me. I looked on the internet and that's how I found your information. I have not checked social media. I hope he or someone on his team will reach out to you. Again, thanks for your time and continue to be safe. Make it a good rest of your day! Warm Regards, Nettie
Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice's Corner.  February 16, 2019:News & Notes:2018 is in the rear view mirror, the singles charts for last year are a wrap and the awards have been presented (see Best of 2018). What else is there to say before we turn from 2018 and begin the new year? Let's give a special mention to the (Best Mid-Tempo Song of 2018) and to Daniel Ross of Ross Music Group--aka Beat Flippa--for the most elemental and easily enjoyable organ/keyboard instrumental since Booker T.'s work on "Green Onions".Listen to Beat Flippa's organ on Jeter Jones' "Black Horse." And in the same vein, let's give a nod of appreciation for the unremarked-upon blues collaboration of Tyree Neal (lead guitar) and Charles Lewis aka Highway Heavy (keyboard organ) in backing up Johnny James on "Sweet Dick Johnny," which secured the award for (Best Out-Of-Left-Field Song of 2018). This, as only southern soul fans know, is the real, cutting-edge, up-to-the minute "living blues," a cauldron of tasteful picking and deep-soul organ straight from the Devil's crossroads.
Listen to Tyree Neal's guitar and Highway Heavy's keyboards on Johnny James' "Sweet Dick Johnny".
June 1, 2017: New Album Alert!Sample/Buy Tyree Neal's new STILL CALLED THE BLUES CD at CD Baby. Sample/Buy Tyree Neal's new STILL CALLED THE BLUES CD at iTunes. "STILL CALLED THE BLUES" TRACK LIST:1 Still Called the Blues 2 Something 'Bout That Thang 3 Using Me 4 Knocking at My Door Ringing My Bell 5 Full Time Lover 6 She Don't Love Me 7 Testify 8 Sex Me Baby 9 I'll Pay for It 10 Leave It All Behind 11 Why She Whipped That Thang on Me 12 I Know I Cheated 13 Preacher Man 14 Hard Times 15 Late Night Love 16 She Didn't Bat An Eye 17 Bring It On Home (Remix) 18 How I'm Supposed to Tell Her 19 Like a Dog in the Streets 20 Don't Do It Like That 21 I Had a Love Then I Lost Her Daddy B. Nice notes: Cousin of the late Jackie Neal, Louisiana Blues Brotha (with Pokey Bear & Adrian Bagher), studio guitarist for Beat Flippa (Ross Music Group), Stephanie McDee and others, and respected independent recording artist with six CD's already published, the prolific Tyree Neal returns with a CD featuring lots of new material. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "Knocking at My Door Ringing My Bell" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "Something 'Bout That Thang" on YouTube.
Scroll down to "Tidbits" for the latest updates on Tyree Neal. To automatically link to Tyree Neal's charted radio singles, awards, CD's and other citations on the website, go to "Neal, Tyree" in Daddy B. Nice's Comprehensive Index.
September 1, 2015: Daddy B. Nice's Profile
Tyree Neal is one of the Louisiana-based performers--Stephanie McDee, Tucka, Cupid, Rude, Simone De, Pokey and more--exerting a powerful new creative force in Southern Soul. Their forerunners include the late Jackie Neal (Tyree's cousin), T.K. Soul, Kenne' Wayne, Lebrado and Big Cynthia. Tyree's reputation has been built as a guitarist and producer more so than a vocalist. His looping guitar riff on Stephanie McDee's "When I Step In The Club" was the key element in McDee's triumphant return to recording after a decade away. Taken as an instrumental track in its own right, "When I Step In The Club" constitutes the finest piece of "bumper music" available to deejays in the contemporary southern soul catalog. The song is basically an acapella tour de force by McDee highlighted against Tyree Neal's equally illuminating yet lunch-bucket--almost monotonous--well, let's settle on mesmerizing--lead guitar. Listen to Tyree Neal playing guitar and Stephanie McDee singing "When I Step In The Club" on YouTube. Meanwhile, Tyree kept working on his vocals, fashioning a low-key, casual style that fit his modest pipes, relying on his "nose" for rhythms, melodies and traditional themes in such early songs as "Whiskey And Beer," "I Heard It In The Neighborhood," "I Want My Boo Back" and "She Gone Make Me Fall In Love," as well as working with his frequent Louisiana zydeco influence in songs like "Dat Girl." The most momentous break in Tyree Neal's careeer, however, came about through another collaboration, this time with a powerful and brash new vocalist called Pokey, who debuted in 2013 with the folksy-titled album, JOSEPHINE SON POKEY. The album featured one of the biggest hit singles of the last couple of years, "My Sidepiece," and--along with another emerging Louisiana star, Tucka--Tyree Neal was a featured vocalist on the "My Sidepiece (Remix)." The single's popularity (and the rapport among the principles) resulted in a southern soul super-group, The Louisiana Blues Brothers, composed of Neal, Pokey and Adrian Bagher, who released their album LOVE ON THE BAYOU in 2014. Since then, Tyree has been on a roll, culminating with a two-record CD set (2015) featuring "I Heard It In The Neighborhood" (for the first time) and a brand new title song, "I'll Be The Other Man," which coincidentally is Neal's best lead vocal to date. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I Heard It In The Neighborhood" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I'll Be The Other Man" on YouTube. --Daddy B. Nice About Tyree Neal (New Album Alert!) Tyree Neal is a member of the Raful Neal clan, Louisiana's famed blues & southern soul family. Often confused as the son of Raful and the sibling of well-known bluesman Kenny Neal and the late southern soul singer Jackie Neal, Tyree is actually the latters' cousin and Raful's nephew.
Tidbits 1.September 1, 2015: Tyree Neal Enters Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 Countdown: 21st Century Southern Soul Artists at #97!See the chart, which encompasses a fifteen-year period in southern soul music.2.September 1, 2015: NEW ALBUM ALERT! Sample/Buy Tyree Neal's I'LL BE THE OTHER MAN CD at Blues Critic. 3.Tyree Neal on YouTube: Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I'll Be The Other Man" on YouTube. Listen to Sir Charles Jones and Tyree Neal singing "Love" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal playing guitar on Stephanie McDee's hit, "When I Step In The Club" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I Heard It Through The Neighborhood" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I Want My Boo Back" on YouTube. Listen to Pokey, Tyree & Adrian (the Louisiana Blues Brothas) singing the Tyree Neal-written "Who You With" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal, Big Pokey Bear and Tucka singing "They Call Me Pokey (Remix)" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal, Tucka and Pokey Bear singing the Heavy-produced "My Sidepiece (Remix)" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal and Sir Charles singing "Whiskey And Beer" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal and Vince Hutchinson singing "I Thought She Was My Girl" on YouTube. Listen to Tyree Neal, Big Cynthia and Big Bro singing "Ain't Nothing Like A Big Woman (Remix)" on YouTube. 4.Re-Posted from Daddy B. Nice's Corner: March 1, 2016: POKEY'S "MY SIDEPIECE" SPAWNING COVERS & RESPONSES IN THE SAME WAY THEODIS EALEY'S "STAND UP IN IT" DID A DECADE AGO Long before texting and Twitter, a Georgia-based southern soul singer/guitarist/songwriter named Theodis Ealey with a fine song already to his credit--"(All My Baby Left Me Was) A Note, My Guitar & A Cookie Jar"--put out a new song, "Stand Up In It," that became a sensation across the southern soul and blues worlds in 2003 and 2004, reproducing itself in countless covers (Falisa JaNaye's "Can You Stand Up In It," etc.), parodies and lyrical references within other artists' songs through '05, '06 and '07, culminating in then-king-of-southern-soul Marvin Sease singing in his new song, "Sit Down On It":
 "Every time I turn my radio on,
I hear this cute little song, Just trotting along, Giving out instructions How lovers should get it on, I must admit It's a cute little song. But don't let the instructions Lead you wrong. They say you ought to Stand up in it, But if you really want to know, The best way to get it..." Note the hint of condescension in Sease's twice-stated reference to the "cute little song." A little jealousy, perhaps? None of the pundits predicted "Stand Up In It"'s popularity. It wasn't an emotionally-deep or instrumentally-innovative record, and even listening to it today with all the hype that has accrued, it doesn't sound that different from other popular hits of the era. But it was. It was a touchstone, a cultural turnstile. Now comes The Louisiana Blues Brothas (featuring Pokey's) recording of "My Sidepiece." (For those of you unfamiliar with the culture of southern soul, "a sidepiece" is a "mistress.")  "I guess I got it from my daddy,
'Cause it's all in my genes. I'm addicted to the nonny (see Poonanny, DBN) If you know what I mean." And the same frenzy of copy-catting that followed "Stand Up In It" is now in full fray with "My Sidepiece." Both songs extol a symbol or metaphor--"stand up in it" in the case of "Stand Up In It," "my sidepiece" in "My Sidepiece"--and in both tunes it's a sexual double-entendre executed with a swagger powerful enough to force the words into our everyday vocabulary. What greater gratification can there be for an artist? And what greater temptation for the artists watching this unexpected band-wagon passing them by than to jump on, too, with their own takes? At the very least, it tells the listener their songs are of recent (i.e. post-"Sidepiece") vintage. Here's a simplified genealogy of "My Sidepiece" and its musical progeny: First came The Louisiana Blues Brothas with.... Listen to Pokey & The Louisiana Blues Brothas singing "My Sidepiece" on YouTube.. ...Which begat: Listen to Heavy, Tucka, Pokey & Tyree Neal singing "My Sidepiece (Remix)" on YouTube. ...Which begat a woman's response: Listen to Veronica Ra'elle, Lacee and Ms. Portia singing "My Sidepiece (Reply)" on YouTube. Those remakes were created within the loose circle of musicians surrounding surrounding "Sidepiece" producer Beat Flippa and the Neal family. But then Ghetto Cowboy and producer Ricky White jumped on the band-wagon with an even stronger, anti-sidepiece lyric overlaying the same instrumental track... 
Listen to Ghetto Cowboy singing "My Main Squeeze" on ProBeatPort. Meanwhile, original Louisiana Blues Brotha Tyree Neal changed sides and put out his own version of an anti-sidepiece song: Listen to Tyree Neal singing "I Came Back Home (You Can Have That Sidepiece)" on YouTube.
But the true measure of the "Sidepiece" phenomenon has been its incidental references in the songs of female performers. Stephanie McDee brags she can co-exist with the male "sidepiece" culture in "Taking Care Of Business":  Listen to Stephanie McDee singing "Taking Care Of Business" on YouTube.
But the Duchess Jureesa McBride's "Personal Love Vendetta" is more typical, in which she sings about a woman's not-so-funny experience of "wasting years" being a sidepiece without actually uttering the word: "It was an awkward situation. Never met your kids. And after a few years, Might have met two of your friends... ...And all the times we went out, I can count on one hand." Listen to The Duchess singing "Personal Love Vendetta" on YouTube. The Louisiana Blues Brothas original was just an ornery, meant-for-fun-loving song, many men (and a sprinkling of women) might respond--not to be taken so seriously. And yet men, too, have taken up the cause from the more realistic female perspective. In his upcoming single, "Can I Be (The One You Make Love To?)," new artist Till 1 sings: "Like my mommy and daddy told me, Son, stay home. You don't need no sidepiece." To which Pokey might reply (from "My Sidepiece"): "This is the definition Of a real man. When I’m with my sidepiece She understands About my situation My obligations..." Perhaps the ultimate "Sidepiece" response song is Tha Don's "Hell Naw": Listen to Tha Don singing "Hell Naw" on YouTube. In an R. Kelly-inspired vocal, he advises a female friend to say "Hell Naw" to being a "sidepiece," thereby referencing in one fell swoop the two most popular songs of 2015, Pokey's "My Sidepiece" and Bishop Bullwinkle's "Hell Naw To The Naw Naw". --Daddy B. Nice Honorary "B" Side "I Heard It Through The Neighborhood" |
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