![]() ![]() With no further adieu, then, and by way of explaining the phenomenon that is "Booty Roll," please take this opportunity to: Perry can deliver hormone-lathering passion, such as "Share This Night With Me," which touches ladies in secret parts of the heart that even those booty-rolling hips can't reach. Soul, with even more resonance at times, if less range. one-chord fast jams.īut Steve Perry is much more of a vocalist than Walter Waiters. ![]() Within two or three basic formats, his songs tend to follow familiar tempos and chord changes.įor example, Perry's "You're A Freak (Shirley, Don't Lie)," "Meat On Her Bones" and even the speeded-up "Throw That Thang" are all essentially the same song, with the same chord changes, cloned with minor tweaks.Īnd "Booty Roll," of course, comes from a long line of Perry-inspired. Musically, Perry has a lot in common with Walter Waiters, with whom he shares a groove-oriented approach to songwriting. Now he's a crowd-pleasing performer with the confident moves and gym-honed pecs of a male stripper, not that that tells the whole story by any means. Then he was a raw up-and-comer, the "Booty Roll" a nascent gleam in his eye. Nice wrote the first Artist Guide to Steve Perry. Southern Soul music's Steve Perry has grown a unique identity, one which couldn't have been predicted years ago when your Daddy B. Scroll down this page to Tidbits #2 for more information. Perry-or Prince Mekel-is already changing venue spots and promotional materials to "Prince Mekel (formerly Steve Perry)." (Steve Perry of the rock band Journey is more famous and always comes up first on the search engines when googling "Steve Perry.") Nice that he'd decided to change because he didn't want to be confused with other artists any longer. When asked about the motivation for the switch, Steve told your Daddy B. July 5, 2012: Steve Perry has changed his performance name to Prince Mekel. The "21st Century" after Steve Perry's name in the headline is to distinguish his artist-guide entries on this page from his artist-guide page on Daddy B. Nice's original Top 100 Southern Soul Artists (90's-00's). Note: Steve Perry also appears on Daddy B. Listen to Steve Perry singing "Live My Life Again" on Spreaker/YouTube. It's easier said than done, and it looks as if Steve has thought better about it-to the extent of calling himself "Steve Perry" in the middle of his new song, "Live My Life Again," a contemporary re-tooling of Tyrone Davis's "Turn Back The Hands Of Time. Nice just has to let play out, even though he knows the result is doomed from the get-go, like Luther Lackey "retiring" from Southern Soul or Steve Perry changing his name to Prince Mekl to avoid being confused with Journey's Steve Perry. There are certain things a commentator like your Daddy B. Nice's Corner, Top Ten "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles for August 2014ĩ. Check out the Bar-Kays new jam here.Steve Perry (21st Century) - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB The Bar-Kays have endured more than their share of the ups, downs, triumphs and tragedies, but they have returned with a new song “Choosey Lover.” It is not a remake of the Isley Brothers hit by the same name, although the track definitely has an early 1980s vibe with a percussive arrangement that alludes to “Juicy Fruit.” The Bar Kays “Choosey Lover” describes a woman who is selective and who will not give a guy a second chance to make that great first impression. ![]() Highly adaptable, the Bar-Kays moved from Memphis Soul to movie soundtrack funk, cutting the tune “Son of Shaft” in 1972, to dancefloor funk tunes like “Move Your Boogie Body,” “Holy Ghost,” the 1980s synth funk of “Freakshow” and one of the best slow jams of that era with “Anticipation.” The Bar-Kays evolved from being one of the groups that crafted the Memphis Sound to becoming a self-contained funk band, and they were one of the biggest funk bands of that era. ![]() Trumpeter Ben Cauley, the only survivor on the ill-fated plane, and bass player James Alexander, who flew on a different plane, remade the band. They were one of the house bands at the legendary Stax Records and they had their share of hits as an instrumental band, including the smash “Soul Finger.” The Bar Kays worked as Otis Redding’s backing band and several members were on that fateful flight in December 1967 when the plane they were riding from Cleveland to Wisconsin crashed into a lake, killing Redding and most of the band’s members. (June 17, 2022) You can track the evolution of R&B and soul music history by following the arc of the Bar-Kays’ history. ![]()
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