Adrian Bagher #24 The New Generation Southern Soul

Daddy B. Nice's #24 ranked Southern Soul Artist

"Let Me Take Care Of You"

Adrian Bagher #24 The New Generation Southern Soul

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Listen to Adrian Bagher and Coldrank singing "Let Me Take Care Of You" on YouTube.

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There are conflicting accounts of Adrian Bagher's name (Bagher or Williams?) and origins, but they generally put his birth date in the late seventies to early eighties in the southern Mississippi village of Magnolia along the I-55 corridor half-way between Jackson MS and Baton Rouge. Adrian's father Willie was a blues music-loving gospel singer and his mother Sarah a soul music-loving housewife.

Originally posted in Daddy B. Nice's May 2013 Top Ten Southern Soul Singles as "Come Around This Corner (99 Problems I Can Help You Solve)" by Adrian (the information given Daddy B. Nice via phone after first hearing the debut single on local Jackson, Mississippi radio station WMPR) "Around The Corner" went on to become an enthusiastic #16-ranked song of the year 2013 and the first of many multi-million-viewed Adrian Bagher tunes on YouTube.

Over the next five years, from about 2013-18, Adrian Bagher became one of the most oft-recorded and oft-accoladed artists on the southern soul circuit, dropping not only his popular, hit-laden, southern soul album "Grown Folks Business" but joining Wardell Brown (Big Pokey Bear) and the late, legendary Jackie Neal's cousin Tyree Neal in the Beat Flippa-produced albums The Louisiana Blues Brothas: Love On The Bayou and I Got The Blues: Volumes 1 and 2. At a time when southern soul music, primarily produced in Memphis and Jackson, had "plateaued" with the passing of stars like Johnnie Taylor, Tyrone Davis and Marvin Sease, this Baton Rouge-based resurgence raised the marketing expectations of southern soul music beyond anything previously dreamed of, and Adrian Bagher was in the very eye of its tornado-like creativity.

Listen to Adrian Bagher singing "Let's Do It" from Beat Flippa's "I Love The Blues Vol. 1" with new star Veronica Ra'elle and Queen of Gulf Coast southern soul Big Cynthia shortly before her passing.

In 2018 Bagher took his skills to an even higher level, reuniting with Baton Rouge's other great southern soul producer, Charles Lewis (Highway Heavy), with whom he'd worked on "My Sidepiece" as a Blues Brotha. One of their first collaborations was the YouTube sensation (14 million views and counting) "Let Me Take Care Of You" (feat Coldrank). This fan-embraced single became the heart of 2019's Willing And Able, Bagher's second full-length southern soul album. Even more successful than "Grown Folks Business," the new album spawned hit singles in "Don't Blame It On Jody," "Willing And Able," "Take Care Of You" and "Dirty".

Bagher's specialty is real-life, documentary-like, highly-emotional messages. In song after song he tackles subject matter that even the most intrepid singer/songwriters tend to avoid: discussing a wife's infidelity with a son ("If You Want To Leave"), making a move on a female neighbor abused by her partner ("Around The Corner"), discovering a wife's secret affair is lesbian in nature ("Don't Blame It On Jody") and scolding a lazy wife ("Willing And Able"). His vocal style is at once effortless and dramatically convincing, delivered in street-wise, homeboy patois in an almost whiny but never grating tenor. His passionate opus "Let Me Take Care Of You," is the unapologetic boasting of a taking-care-of-the-bills, feet-on-the-ground man doing his best to woo his sweetheart. It's a voice that commands attention and holds up with anyone in the business, as can be witnessed when Bagher comes in for the final verse of "Thank God It's Friday," following (among others) the great Pokey Bear. The jam not only doesn't falter; it picks up and soars.

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About Adrian Bagher #24 The New Generation Southern Soul

Adrian Bagher's Chart History at Daddy B. Nice's Southern Soul RnB:

Adrian Bagher Begins 2017 w/ #1 Single "Dirty"!

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Honorary "B" Side

"Around The Corner"

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