Big Mel (New Album Alert!)
Daddy B. Nice's #267 ranked Southern Soul Artist
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Big Mel (New Album Alert!)Daddy B. Nice's #267 ranked Southern Soul Artist |
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Big Mel (New Album Alert!) September 21, 2024: NEW ALBUM ALERT!Buy Big Mel's new BLUE ROSE album at Apple.BLUE ROSE TRACK LIST:1. Blue Rose2 When The Smoke Clears 3 Leave You Alone 4 Nothing But You 5 Life Just LifeN Right Now 6 Let 'Em Talk 7 Cologne 8 Didn't Know 9 Good Time 10 Do You (feat. Vick Allen) 11. On Ya Feet (feat. DJ A) 12. Changed The Game Daddy B. Nice notes: For a newcomer to southern soul (2022) Melvin "Big Mel" Nettles has been unusually
productive. Last year he authored not one but two long-play collections: the 12-track Old Soul album, which included his break-out singles "Drink My Liquor" and "Ain't Got Time," and the 7-track EP Back 2 Soul, which included the popular "Take My Time," a duet with Ms. Jody. Blue Rose, released August 30th, is anchored by yet another blockbuster single, "On Ya Feet" with 68 thousand YouTube streams, nowhere near the two million-plus views for "Drink My Liquor" and "Ain't Got Time" but notable nevertheless and still gathering clicks. Charting at #6 in Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Singles for May, I wrote: Big Mel is looking like the real thing. He understands melody and tempo, has a voice that inspires empathy, and just about everything he puts out is notable. But someone please help me with the lyrics. I keep hearing, over and over, “I’ll pour acid on your feet,” which sounds pretty weird in front of “and have a country time with me". Even if it meant making me look stupid, I was hoping someone would have clued me in by now (daddybnice@southernsoulrnb.com), but no one---including Big Mel---has obliged. Recently I've been entertaining the possibility Mel is saying, "I'll pour absinthe on your feet," but playing around with the algorithms for that phrase on the search engines has also proven fruitless. Now I'm confronted with a new puzzle, the meaning of "Blue Rose," the title of Big Mel's new album. I'm a fan of the David Lynch TV series "Twin Peaks: The Return," where the "blue rose" describes a homicide case involving the paranormal/supernatural. Blue roses do not grow naturally. "I'm a mystery," is the way Big Mel explains it in the lead-off track and title cut from BLUE ROSE. "I don't let that many get close to me." Blue Rose is admirably produced and performed. The tolerable songwriting isn't on the same high tier as the vocalizing and presentation, but here's a quartet of tracks from the set that hold promise of becoming the next Big Mel hit single: "Good Time" "Changed The Game" "Nothing But You" and... "When The Smoke Clears". In any case, the "want-to" work ethic---three commendable long-play albums in two years---and balladeering talent position Big Mel in the distinguished company of young comrades FPJ, Young Guy, Marcellus The Singer and M. Cally as a southern soul star in the making. Listen to all the tracks from Big Mel's new BLUE ROSE album on YouTube. Listen to all the tracks from Big Mel's BLUE ROSE album at Spotify. Sample/Buy Big Mel's new BLUE ROSE album at Apple. 
--Daddy B. Nice |
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