J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)

Daddy B. Nice's #22 ranked Southern Soul Artist



Portrait of J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!) by Daddy B. Nice
 


"I Got This Record"

J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)

Composed by Jawonn Smith


March 14, 2021:

J-Wonn is now the 7th-ranked southern soul artist on Daddy B. Nice's THE NEW GENERATION chart.

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

July 1, 2020: Excerpted from Daddy B. Nice's Corner: News & Notes

One last treat--a little bonbon. There's nobody more fun to watch in concert than J-Wonn. Remember him shirtless onstage with Big Yayo in Pickens, Mississippi and again in Dothan, Alabama, singing "Cowgirl?" His capacity for happiness is so off the charts.

Listen to J-Wonn singing "I Got This Record" live in a hole-in-the-wall in Itta Bena, Mississippi on YouTube.

--Daddy B. Nice

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide


January 3, 2020:

Reprinted from Daddy B. Nice's Corner:

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For. . .

-------JANUARY 2020-------


1. "Yo Luv Baby"----J-Wonn

J-Wonn's "I Got This Record" is still arguably the greatest southern soul single of the last decade, and "Yo Luv Baby" shares some of its characteristics: superb vocal, melody, arrangement and similarly universal lyrics: "I'll travel miles/ Girl, I will travel cities/ Girl, I'll travel states/ Just to get to your love."

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May 27, 2019:

New Album Alert!

Buy J-Wonn's new MY TURN album at Amazon.

MY TURN TRACK LIST

1
You Got It

2
Two Covers

3
21 Again

4
Finish It

5
Feel Me (featuring Keith Sweat)

6
Slow

7
Open Relationship

8
Its Me Too

9
Dose of My Love

10
Outro (The Future of Southern Soul / R&B)

Daddy B. Nice notes:

Like an ice flow broken off from the southern soul continent, J-Wonn continues his post-Big Yayo drift toward urban smooth. Great vocals, great instrumental tracks, but there ain't a southern soul song in the bunch. I love the "Lovers & Friends"-inspired "Slow".

More from the charts:

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For. . .

-------NOVEMBER 2018-------

…4. "Feel Me"-----J-Wonn featuring Keith Sweat

J-Wonn has been trending closer to mainstream popular music ever since he left former mentor Big Yayo, and this one makes it official. Can you imagine J-Wonn on Top 40 Urban R&B?

Listen to J-Wonn and Keith Sweat singing "Feel Me" on YouTube.

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-------MARCH 2019-------

…8. "Two Covers"-----J-Wonn

Now here's a guy who knows nothing about rhythm tracks. That's why his collaborations with Big Yayo ("I Got This Record," "Cowgirl") were so transcendent; Big Yayo brought the bass. J-Wonn's always high in the "clouds" of melody (and if you've seen him in concert, the euphoria of performance). But while his songs lack solid bass lines, his success is undeniable, and although its subject is domestic quarreling, "Two Covers" flies like a bird.

Listen to J-Wonn singing "Two Covers" on YouTube.


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Daddy B. Nice continues...

In retrospect, especially in the "Two Lover's capsule-review, I'm afraid I was being overly kind. This type of R&B--saccharine to the extreme--doesn't interest me. In any ordinary circumstances (anyone but J-Wonn), I wouldn't listen to it. In fact, it's the kind of music I avoid. Excuse me while I wipe away a tear. We are so far from "I Got This Record". One of the things that made the lyrics to "I Got This Record" so incredible was their very transparency. You could see a young songwriter in the very act of searching for southern soul "touchstones" in each and every line, and all of his choices were right on, and that made the lyrics even more beautiful. At the same time, J-Wonn was pouring his heart out, and making those transparently derivative lyrics (with their novel twists) his life. It was just a "perfect storm" of young genius meets tradition. I knew when he recorded "I Got This Record" that J-Wonn would never be able to re-climb "Record's" breathtaking peak of rawness, immediacy, inspiration and want-to, but in the years since he hasn't even tried to replicate or emulate the record of his career. With J-Wonn, will we end up mourning what might have been?

Buy J-Wonn's MY TURN CD at Apple.

Listen to J-Wonn and Keith Sweat singing "Feel Me" on YouTube.

Listen to J-Wonn singing "Finish It" on YouTube.

Listen to J-Wonn's MY TURN album on Spotify.

Listen to all the tracks from J-Wonn's new MY TURN album on YouTube.

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Scroll down this page to "Tidbits" for the latest updates on J-Wonn, including Daddy B. Nice's CD Reviews of J-Wonn's first album, I GOT THIS RECORD , and second album, THE LEGACY BEGINS. To automatically link to J'Wonn's charted radio singles, awards, CD's and other citations on the website, go to "J'Wonn" in Daddy B. Nice's Comprehensive Index.
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Listen to J-Wonn singing "I Got This Record" on YouTube.

Listen to J-Wonn singing on the Official Video for "I Got This Record" on YouTube.

--Daddy B. Nice


About J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)

J-Wonn is the recording name of Jawonn Smith, a native of Jackson, Mississippi. The youthful artist teamed up with Jackson's Christopher Mabry, a local producer who had made a name for himself writing and producing LaMorris Williams' signature single, "Impala". Mabry, who would go on to become known as the performer Big Yayo, tutored the young J-Wonn, and the result was the single "I Got This Record," one of the most stunning debuts in 21st-century southern soul. The record sounded as if it was (and should have gone) "national". J-Wonn has stated he recorded the song in one take.

The first media mention of J-Wonn's "I Got This Record" appeared here at SouthernSoulRnB in September of 2013:

Daddy B. Nice's Top Ten "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles Review for. . .

SEPTEMBER 2013

1. "I Got This Record"----J-Wonn

A stunning debut, and a home-run arrangement from the young producer of the moment, Big Yayo (LaMorris Williams' "Impala," Dave Mack's "Booty Talking"), who told your Daddy B. Nice he also manages this breathtakingly golden-toned vocalist.

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's "I Got This Record" mp3 on Amazon.

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's "I Got This Record" mp3 on iTunes.


With only word-of-mouth, local air-play and one meagerly-recorded, live-with-boombox, YouTube video on the sidewalk of legendary Farish Street, J-Wonn became an overnight sensation, the charisma and sensitivity of his vocal compelling your Daddy B. Nice to call his coming-out party "dramatic enough to recall Sir Charles Jones' 'Friday' or LaMorris Williams' 'We Can Do It (Impala)'."

Then, in an article written September 21, 2013 entitled WILLIE CLAYTON DISPARAGES SOUTHERN SOUL SINGERS: DADDY B NICE RESPONDS, Daddy B. Nice closed with the observation:

Southern Soul has taken on a life of its own, leaving old men like me and Willie far behind. I understand his stubbornness because I see it in myself, in my refusal to tweet or to facebook. The young people I'm talking to while searching out these new singles like J-Wonn's "I Got This Record" aren't aware of any of the normal insider/industry stuff. They live in a world of facebook and twitter, as unaware of our "older" world, and what we respect and cherish, as we are of theirs. And yet these same young people are making southern soul music as good as it ever was. I truly believe that, or I wouldn't still be tracking the stuff. And J-Wonn...as a pure singer? Whew! Off the charts!

What to your Daddy B. Nice's surprise then, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving only two months later, to hear the late-breaking announcement of a Thanksgiving-eve concert at the Evers Tri-County Center in Pickens, Mississippi. The bill? Willie Clayton and J-Wonn.

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J-Wonn Discography:

I Got This Record (Savior Music, 2014)

The Legacy Begins (I Got This Record Publishing, 2016)

Making Love To Your Mind (I Got This Record Publishing, 2018)


Tidbits

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February 1, 2014: AWARDS & HONORS for J-Wonn and "I Got This Record"

Daddy B. Nice Announces The Winners of the 2013 "Daddies" (7th Annual) Southern Soul Music Awards.

#1 Southern Soul Song Of The Year

Daddy B. Nice's

TOP 25 SOUTHERN SOUL SONGS OF 2013

1. I Got This Record--J-Wonn

Best Ballad: "I Got This Record" by JWonn



Best Male Vocalist: JWonn, "I Got This Record"



Best Debut: JWonn, "I Got This Record"



Best Arranger/Producer: Big Yayo

Big Yayo---J-Wonn ("I Got This Record"), T-Baby ("The Swag"), Dave Mack ("Booty Talking")

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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February 1, 2014: (Updated March 1, 2014)

CHART CLIMBERS 2014!:

J-Wonn and his hit Southern Soul single "I Got This Record" debuts at #93 on Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 21st Century Southern Soul Artist Countdown.


JWonn and his song "I Got This Record" dominated the 2013 ("Daddies") 7th Annual Southern Soul Music Awards. See Daddy B. Nice's Best Of 2013.

Go to the complete library of artist guides for Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 Countdown: 21st Century Southern Soul Artists

Listen to JWonn singing "I Got This Record" on YouTube while you read.

Listen to Jwonn singing "I Got This Record" on the studio video on YouTube.

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September 7, 2014: CHART-CLIMBERS


On the heels of his just released 15-track debut album, I GOT THIS RECORD, J-WONN rockets up the charts from #93 to #35 on Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 21st Century Southern Soul Countdown.



See Chart.

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September 7, 2014:

Read Daddy B. Nice's five-star review of J-Wonn's debut CD, I GOT THIS RECORD.

See Daddy B. Nice's NEW CD REVIEWS.

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August 1, 2014: NEW ALBUM ALERT!

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's highly-anticipated debut album, I GOT THIS RECORD (THE CD) at Amazon.

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's highly-anticipated debut album, I GOT THIS RECORD (THE CD) at iTunes.



Click here to see Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Southern Soul Singles Review for July (#7-"Sleep In It" by J-Wonn).

Listen to J-Wonn singing "Sleep In It" on YouTube.

Watch for Daddy B. Nice's hot new single from J-Wonn's debut album for August '14: "True Love."

(August 3, 2014)....and here it is:

See Daddy B. Nice's #2-ranked Southern Soul Single for August 2014: J-Wonn's "True Love."

Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Review For. . .

----------AUGUST 2014------------

2. "True Love"-------J-Wonn

This one's just a notch below the level of Carl Sims' soul-shattering mini-dramas, Big Yayo out-Robbing Bigg Robb in a brief intro to J'Wonn's stunningly-innocent alto vocalizing the ballad's soulful lament:

"True love...
Oh, it's so hard to find."

It stops you in your tracks the way a song with the phrase "I got this record" still does, and when, quivering with vibrato, a totally-unexpected, deep-soul-Stax organ kicks in behind J-Wonn, your Daddy B. Nice wants to jump up and plant a big kiss on producer Yayo's forehead. From J-Wonn's terrific debut album--just released.


Sample/Buy J-Wonn's debut album, I GOT THIS RECORD (THE CD) at Amazon.

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's debut album, I GOT THIS RECORD (THE CD) at iTunes.

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RE-POSTED FROM DADDY B. NICE'S CD REVIEWS


September 6, 2014:

J-WONN: I Got This Record (Savior Music) Five Stars ***** Can't Miss. Pure Southern Soul Heaven.

A year later, leading off J-Wonn's debut CD of the same name, "I Got This Record" sounds even better than it did when it arrived--in fact, sounds good enough to drag the entire southern soul genre into the R&B mainstream. The fact that it has not done so yet only makes the steam in the pressure cooker that is southern soul all the more intense. Music this good will not pass without its eventual triumph.

Ten years ago, with masters like Johnnie Taylor, Tyrone Davis and Little Milton moving on to Soul Heaven, there was genuine consternation in the southern soul community that the golden age of southern soul music (never even heard outside of the Deep South anyway) was over. "Grown folks," the audience, were aging, along with the performers.

In 2014, with the tremendous influx of new young performers preceding J-Wonn over the last decade, those concerns seem wildly alarmist. Southern soul music has never been more popular. The number and dimension of live concerts dwarfs anything seen in the "old days."

Yes, the sound is different--in some ways, especially from a production standpoint, better--but it is still southern soul music. No one knows this better than the young artists like Jawonn Smith and Chris (Big Yayo) Mabry, the executive producers of this album, who are migrating from hiphop (the dominant form of the day) into southern soul, the genre that is all about music, not about using music as a conduit to get into the movies.

This album is so full of quality music--fifteen tracks of it--it's almost impossible to compare to most soul music albums. One has to go back to classic collections like Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" or The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" or "Revolver" CD's to convey its mind-blowing mix of panoramic musical vision and technical breakthrough.

Big Yayo, who has nurtured and shaped this freakishly-talented young singer/songwriter Jawonn Smith into the phenomenon we know as J-Wonn, is fresh from ground-breaking singles stints with Stevie J. ("Because Of Me"), Dave Mack ("Booty Talking") and, most gloriously, LaMorris Williams ("Impala"--written, incidentally, by an even younger Jawonn), in each case delivering the strongest songs of their careers.

Your Daddy B. Nice has written extensively about "I Got This Record" over the last year, including awarding it the #1-ranked song of 2013, somewhat ahead of its major exposure across the chitlin' circuit and indeed the whole country and world in 2014.

Daddy B. Nice's

TOP 25 SOUTHERN SOUL SONGS OF 2013

1. I Got This Record--J-Wonn

A stunning debut, and a home-run arrangement from the young producer of the moment, Big Yayo (LaMorris Williams' "Impala," Dave Mack's "Booty Talking"), who told your Daddy B. Nice he also manages this breathtakingly golden-toned vocalist. "I Got This Record” is J-Wonn's coming-out party, dramatic enough to recall Sir Charles Jones' "Friday" and LaMorris Williams' "We Can Do It (Impala)".


Listen to the new video of J-Wonn singing "I Got This Record" on YouTube.

J-Wonn and his record swept 2013's top honors for Best Ballad, Best Male Vocalist, & Best Debut, with collaborator Big Yayo nabbing Best Arranger/Producer. A summary of J-Wonn's meteoric rise is contained in Daddy B. Nice's new J-Wonn Artist Guide.

Conceptually, J-Wonn's songs extol the virtues of romantic love and the perils of cynicism, the perfect thematic foil for his claim to fame: a vocal timbre and tone that captures the ineffable innocence of young love.

I Got This Record (The CD) contains any number of potential hit singles, although none quite so deserving of the term "classic" as "I Got This Record." Many of the songs will appeal to listeners with that vaguely-familiar, heard-once-before quality that makes a song instantly memorable. That's because deejays have already been dipping into the set with the happy abandon of treasure-hunters.

"Sleep In It" is a light, lilting tune about falling asleep in the aftermath of sex.

"True Love," a Carl Sims-like, deep-soul ballad has charted even higher than "Sleep In It" on Daddy B. Nice's recent Top 10 singles reviews.

"One Day Left" is a mid-tempo track with a rousing acapella-like conclusion featuring layer-cake like harmonies.

"Let's Get Out Of This Club"--for some reason titled "All Right"--has a haunting phrase at the end of its hook, accentuated in the opening verses by JWonn's last note, which drops down unexpectedly. The song builds an atmosphere so dense it lingers long after.

The ballad "Deeper" is the song viewers hear in the background to the introduction of the official J-Wonn YouTube video for "I Got This Record," and with noticeable expertise "Lied To You" ventures into the love-seat domain of songs like Mtume's "Juicy Fruit."

"Night Time Lover," an uptempo cut, raises tantalizing possibilities for J-Wonn's future forays into dance-floor jams, perhaps the only aspect of southern soul music not thoroughly digested and revived in this collection. The faster tempo brings out another charismatic strain in J-Wonn's vocal stylings. The rousing "One For The Road" with its chugging-train-like rhythm track, is another uptempo anthem waiting in the wings for its day on radio.

And yet, this sketchy overview doesn't do justice to the sheer breadth of riches on the album, including "You," "So Long," "Superstar," "VFW," and "I Look Good On You."

Too good to be true? The roll call of impressive new performers in Southern Soul since the turn of the century is replete with head-turning talent, but the seldom-used word "genius" may be the only encomium worthy of J-Wonn, who with this exceptionally accomplished debut CD takes his place in the top rank of contemporary southern soul singers.

--Daddy B. Nice

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's I GOT THIS RECORD CD at Amazon.

Sample/Buy J-Wonn's I GOT THIS RECORD CD at iTunes.

Read Daddy B. Nice's Artist Guide to J-Wonn.

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February 10, 2015:

2-8-15 HOT!!! COWGIRL (THE OFFICIAL VIDEO) BY BIG YAYO FEATURING J'WONN! CLICK HERE!

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January 4, 2015: J'Wonn scores a trifecta of new singles to jump-start the new year!

See Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 Southern Soul Singles Review

#1--"Cowgirl" by Big Yayo featuring J-Wonn & T-Baby

#3--"Mississippi Boy: Part 2" by Charles Wilson featuring J-Wonn


And, brand new (not from 2014's I GOT THIS RECORD CD), the new ballad...

#6--"I Need A Grown Woman" by J-Wonn

--Daddy B. Nice

Listen to J'Wonn singing "I Need A Grown Woman" on YouTube.

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September 1, 2015:

Ranking The Singles: See right-hand column



SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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Chart-Climber!


Listen to J'Wonn singing Daddy B. Nice's #22-ranked contemporary southern soul single, "I Got This Record," on YouTube.

September 4, 2016:

J'Wonn Climbs From #36 to #22 on Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 21st Century Countdown. The chart encompasses the period from 2000-2016.



SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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October 23, 2016: NEW ALBUM ALERT!

Sample/Buy J'Wonn's new THE LEGACY BEGINS CD at Amazon.

Sample/Buy J'Wonn's THE LEGACY BEGINS CD at iTunes.

Listen to the official video of J'Wonn singing "24/7" on YouTube, from the new album THE LEGACY BEGINS.

Track list:

1 Daddy's Girl

2 Like or Love

3 I Need a Grown Woman

4 On the Spot

5 24 / 7

6 Left Me Now

7 2 Ways

8 I Got This Record (Live)

9 To My Grave

10 We Gone Party

11 The Night Away

12 Get Funky

Daddy B. Nice notes: The album includes two of J'Wonn's recent charting singles, "I Need A Grown Woman" and "Daddy's Girl."

Listen to the official video of J'Wonn singing "Daddy's Girl" on YouTube.

Listen to the official video of J'Wonn singing "I Need A Grown Woman" on YouTube.

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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December 13, 2016: Re-posted from Daddy B. Nice's New CD Reviews

J-WONN: The Legacy Begins ( I Got This Record Publishing) Four Stars **** Distinguished Effort. Should please old fans and gain new.



The most revealing moment on J'Wonn's new CD THE LEGACY BEGINS comes at the end of his live version of "I Got This Record." Up to that moment, you're marveling mostly at the faithful rendition via live onstage instruments of the studio version of J'Wonn's signature tune. Then comes the end and the squeals of the young women in the audience, far-off from the onstage sound equipment, but nevertheless powerful enough to recall The Beatles in their early days and their squealing, girl-dominated audiences.

Longtime followers of southern soul music have never experienced quite this kind of audience reaction. Johnnie Taylor was the marquee heart-throb of his day, but the women screaming their appreciation were more mature, experienced and knowing. Marvin Sease drove his female audiences to heights of passion, but their catcalls and mock-shock cheers were hardy, wild and comedic. Perhaps Sir Charles Jones, kicking off contemporary southern soul in the early years of the century, was the real harbinger of J'Wonn's arrival: the girls went crazy.

But none of the stars, it seems, drew the really young girls--even teen-agers--the way J'Wonn does. He does what no southern soul veterans thought possible: he makes southern soul accessible to the young, in the process demolishing the old critical "truism" that southern soul would die with its aging audience.

J'Wonn's most revealing concerts over the last couple of years have been his gigs with Big Yayo (the producer of "I Got This Record" and the album of the same name) and their performances of Big Yayo's dance-hall smash "(I Need A) Cowgirl." Watching him prancing half-naked onstage as if he were riding his horse, laughing and singing and reveling deliriously in the moment, it's obvious J'Wonn has that rare, androgynous quality of Michael Jackson, or even more apt, Little Richard--not as outrageously kinky/androgynous as Richard--but equally sexual and one-of-a-kind. (Here's another concert clip.)

When all is said and done, there are no "breakthrough," "can't-miss" songs on the order of "I Got This Record" (or even "Cowgirl") on THE LEGACY BEGINS. The new album is J'Wonn's first without his mentor, Big Yayo--also the first on J'Wonn's new, self-produced label. And to continue the Beatles comparisons, when it comes to songwriting without Chris Mabry (Big Yayo), J'Wonn is a little like Paul McCartney without John Lennon, or in over-simplified terms, melody and music hall (McCartney--J-Wonn) without grit and rhythm (Lennon--Big Yayo), an approach epitomized by some of the set's biggest singles: "Daddy's Girl," "I Need A Grown Woman," and "24/7."

Listen to J'Wonn singing "Daddy's Girl" on YouTube.

These aren't "big" singles in a dubious, southern-soul-bragging kind of way. These songs really are "big." They're popular and have made huge inroads with the young crowd.

Listen to J'Wonn singing "I Need A Grown Woman" on YouTube.

And in profiling J'Wonn's "24/7" on the Top Ten Singles (November 2016), your Daddy B. Nice returned to the age vs. youth issue in a more critical way:

How can you criticize a young artist for singing about young topics (infatuation with a new lover)? But we are miles from the celestial heights of J’Wonn’s classic, ”I Got This Record.” Although songs like “24/7” and “Daddy’s Girl” are creating a new generation of young southern soul fans, I can’t help comparing these tunes to the similarly light-weight, borderline-fluffy, follow-up efforts of LaMorris Williams—“Pretty Lady,” etc.--to his breakthrough classic, “Impala.” I hope to see J-Wonn rediscover the ageless depth and soulfulness of “I Got This Record” in the same way LaMorris eventually did with this year’s classic album, Mississippi Motown.

And just this month (December 2016), I added an exclamation point to the "young and fluffy" critique in praising the atypically older-sounding "(I'm Taking It) To My Grave."

The most southern soul track from J-Wonn's surprisingly pop-ish, new THE LEGACY BEGINS CD.

My own favorite J'Wonn song from 2016--the solemn and heart-felt hymn to God, "Lord I Need To Talk To You" (which to my surprise received an impressive 28,000 views after charting here in April 2016)-- didn't even make it to THE LEGACY BEGINS.

Listen to J'Wonn singing "Lord I Need To Talk To You" on YouTube.

The best thing about this prayer-slash-meditation? It doesn't appear to be a conscious attempt to record a gospel song, which would have added a layer of artifice, however transparent. No, this is simply a song from the heart, like "I Got This Record."

What cannot be denied about THE LEGACY BEGINS is J'Wonn's impressive musicality and production expertise, which come as something of a surprise despite the evident artistry behind "I Got This Record." In setting out to accomplish a palette of styles and moods, the young singer/songwriter has ransacked every sub-genre in R&B, including a "stepping" song, "The Night Away," the obligatory, "to-the-right, to the left," dance jam, "We Gone Party," and the old-fashioned (some might call "timeless," others "archaic") mainstream soul of "Left Me Now."

These and other tunes from the album are remarkably realized. The Legacy Begins may not be the foundation of a rather pompous-sounding "legacy." It may not even be the album we know J-Wonn is capable of. But it is, in its way, a tour de force.

--Daddy B. Nice

Buy J'Wonn's THE LEGACY BEGINS at iTunes.

Buy J'Wonn's THE LEGACY BEGINS at Amazon.

Go to Daddy B. Nice's Artist Guide to J-Wonn.

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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April 22, 2018:

New Album Alert

MAKING LOVE TO YOUR MIND
TRACK LIST



1
Beyond This Door

2
Will You Be Mine

3
Be Patient

4
Sweet Love

5
Seal the Deal

6
That Way

7
Low Key

8
Your Temptation

9
Fed Up

10
Coming Home

11
Let's Just Get Away

12
Finally

13
Him & Her

Listen to J-Wonn singing "Him And Her" on YouTube.

Listen to J-Wonn singing "Fed Up" on YouTube.

Buy J-Wonn's new MAKING LOVE TO YOUR MIND album at iTunes.

CD Release Party!: 9 pm, The Lounge, Bernice, Louisiana, April 28, 2018. See Daddy B. Nice's Concert Calendar.

Daddy B. Nice notes:

A surprising amount of music from the young, would-be, heir-apparent to Sir Charles Jones, with whom he shares a marked affinity for balladeering. "Him And Her" is quite singular, with poetry voice-overs instead of verses, which lends it a gospel flavor and a weird kind of authenticity.

Watch for the review.

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide

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February 28, 2018:

Daddy B. Nice Announces THE WINNERS of the 2017 (11th Annual) SOUTHERN SOUL MUSIC AWARDS.

Best Male Vocalist (Co-Winners!)

Top Contenders:

“Pretty Girl” ----- J-Wonn (w/ Tucka)
“I Drinks My Whiskey” ---- David Brinston
“Do You Want Somebody?” ----- Alonzo Reid (w/ Lakeisha)
"It Ain't Go Work" ---- Pokey Bear (w/ Miss Portia)
“I Could Sure Use A Drink Right Now” ---- Avail Hollywood
“My Country Girl” ----- Jeter Jones
“She Don’t Want Me No More” ---- Mr. Sam
“Darkest Hour” ---- Big G
“I’ll Take Your Word For It” ----- Vick Allen
“'Til The Sun Comes Up” ----- Tucka
“I’m Stepping Out” ---- Mr. Campbell
“Don’t Blame It On Jody” ----- Adrian Bagher
“Caller I.D.” ---- El’ Willie
“Mississippi Style” ---- Jaye Hammer
"Shake Something (Remix)" ---- J. Red (w/ Ms. Lady Soul, Columbus Toy)
“Preacher Car In My Yard” ---- Luther Lackey
“Please Don't Leave My Wife Alone” ---- Lomax
“All I Need Is You” ----- Pokey Bear (w/ Crystal Thomas)
"Bedroom Rodeo (Remix)" ---- Big Yayo (w/ Omar Cunningham, Gentry Jones)
"Mojo Woman" ---- Joe "Blues" Butler

Best Male Vocalist (Co-Winners): J-Wonn & Tucka for "Pretty Girls"

Listen to J-Wonn & Tucka singing "Pretty Girls" on YouTube.

See J'Wonn's other nominations in Daddy B. Nice's Best of 2017.

SouthernSoulRnB.com - Chitlin' Circuit Southern Soul Music Guide


Honorary "B" Side

"Cowgirl (feat. Big Yayo)"




5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 
Sample or Buy I Got This Record by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
I Got This Record


CD: I Got This Record (The CD)
Label: Savior/Music Access

Sample or Buy
I Got This Record


5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 5 Stars 
Sample or Buy Cowgirl (feat. Big Yayo) by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
Cowgirl (feat. Big Yayo)



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All Right (Let's Get Outa This Club (w/ Big Yayo)


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Sample or Buy I Need A Grown Woman by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
I Need A Grown Woman



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Sample or Buy True Love by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
True Love


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Sample or Buy Jigga Jigga (feat. Mel Waiters) by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
Jigga Jigga (feat. Mel Waiters)



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Sample or Buy Nighttime Lover by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
Nighttime Lover


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Sample or Buy One For The Road by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
One For The Road


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Sample or Buy VFW by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
VFW


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Sample or Buy Deeper by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
Deeper


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Sample or Buy One Day Left by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
One Day Left


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Sample or Buy Sleep In It by  J-Wonn (Now #7: The New Generation!)
Sleep In It


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