Ciddy Boi P: Country Styling
November 1, 2024
Country in southern soul? You either love it or you don’t. And loving it doesn’t mean you don’t love traditional southern soul. It simply means country has elbowed its way into southern soul and enriched it in the same way hiphop (“Hell Naw To The Naw Naw” by Bishop Bullwinkle, “Take Your Time” by Joe Nice & Sean Dolby), funk (“Mr. Sexy Man” by Nellie “Tiger” Travis, “Roll It” by Mr. Sam) and zydeco (“Don’t Mess With My Tu Tu” by Denise LaSalle, “Zydeco Bounce” by T.K. Soul, “Call The Police” by Stephanie McDee) have at first shocked and ultimately enriched the genre in prior eras.
Stan Butler was one of the first to begin experimenting with country styling a few years ago in songs like “My Deaf Brother” and “Mighty Good Woman,” tunes that appeared to be novelties because of their unusual reliance on spoken narratives and hyperbole. They became the most successful recordings of his career. Then, both before and after R&B superstar Beyoncé recorded her country album early in 2024, a flood of country-inspired music including Ciddy Boi P’s “This Is Texas (Beyoncé Reply),” Cecily Wilborn’s “Southern Man” (2023) and Curt The Country Man’s “Back Roads” (early 2024), inundated southern soul, forcing deejays and programmers into some awkward decisions about what constitutes southern soul in the eyes of its audience. That transformation is still roiling southern soul playlists today. This month Daddy B. Nice features four of the most dominant musicians in this new wave of countrified southern soul.
Stan Butler
“Down In The Kountry” (feat. West Love)
“My Deaf Brother”
“Cowboy Ride”
“Mighty Good Woman”
Ciddy Boi P
“This Is Texas (Beyoncé Reply)”
“One More Day”
“Fishing Hole”
“Can I Get It” (feat. Till 1 & Mississippi Hummin’ Boy)
Curt The Country Man (aka GMB Li Curt)
“Back Roads” (feat. Shawty Mac)
“Back Roads” (feat. Marcellus The Singer)
“2 Beers”
“Country Man”
Cecily Wilborn
“Red Cup Blues,”
“Southern Man”
“Southern Man (The Anthem)” feat. West Love
“Living For The Weekend”
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”Southern Man”---Cecily Wilborn
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”Back Roads”---Curt The Country Man
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”Down In The Kuntry”---Stan Butler
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”One More Day”---Ciddy Boi P
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”Red Cup Blues”---Cecily Wilborn
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”This Is Texas”---Ciddy Boi P
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”2 Beers”---Curt The Country Man
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”Mighty Good Woman”---Stan Butler
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”Living For The Weekend”---Cecily Wilborn
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”My Deaf Brother”---Stan Butler
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Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .
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1. "This Is Texas"---Ciddy Boi P
Country music influ-
ences continue to waft like fresh breeze through southern soul. Ciddy Boi P, who had a down year in '23 after a resounding debut in '22, recorded "This Is Texas" as a reply to Beyonce's "Texas Hold 'Em," but it's much more than that. The "ying-ying-ying-ying" man's very heart and soul course through this testament with an emotive power that dwarfs his more formulaic southern soul tunes, and at under three minutes you'll want to play it over and over, soaking up the man's inspiring and unbounding love for his life and land.
Listen to Ciddy Boi P. singing "This Is Texas" on YouTube.
January 28, 2023:
Best Collaboration:
This guy's all over the place, recording like a man possessed, some of it pretty good. I first took notice of him when he teamed up with Mz. Connie on "My Corner Sto" ("if your woman has everything you need, she's the corner store"), a delightfully rowdy record ("two of the grittiest vocals male or female of the year") and #5 single in June 22.
Now Ciddy Boi P's captured the #1 single (December 22) with the irresistable, dance-friendly "Can I Get It?", featuring Till 1 and Mississippi Hummin' Boy. Ciddy Boi is an aggressive and unerringly proficient collaborator. Here are just a few of his many YouTube song/videos posted in 2022.
--Daddy B. Nice
About Ciddy Boi P: Country Styling
Ciddy Boi P is the performance name of Patrick Rodriguez from Spring, Texas (Houston).
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