|
 |
Lady Redtopp Southern Soul Awards Triple Winner
January 24, 2024:
 Best Club Song:
She must have been destined to sing this song from the time she was a little girl...And she got it from her Momma.
"Trail Ride" ----- Lady Redtopp (w/ Bri Rocket)Listen to Lady Redtopp & Bri Rocket singing "Trail Ride" on YouTube.
Buy Lady Redtopp's "Trail Ride" The Single at Apple.
See Daddy B. Nice's Best of 2023 Southern Soul Awards.
January 21, 2024:
Best Female Southern Soul Vocalist:
In a great year for new divas, Lady Redtopp was the brashest, the toughest and the funniest.
Lady Redtopp ---- "Mississippi Soul Girl," "Part Time Lover," "Trail Ride" (w/ Bri Rocket)"
Listen to Lady Redtopp singing "Mississippi Soul Girl" on YouTube."
Buy Lady Redtopp's "Mississippi Soul Girl," "Trail Ride" and "Part Time Lover" at Apple.
See Daddy B. Nice's Best of 2023 Southern Soul Awards.
January 21, 2024:
 Best Southern Soul Debut:
In a year of outstanding debuts two artists stood above the rest for their diversity, resulting in (A Tie! Between...)
M. Cally ---- “Southern Soul Sunday" & "Brown Liquor"
Listen to M. Cally singing "Southern Soul Sunday" on YouTube.
Buy M. Cally's "Southern Soul Sunday" & "Brown Liquor" at Apple.
and...
Lady Redtopp ---- "Part Time Lover" & "Trail Ride"
Listen to Lady Redtopp singing "Part Time Lover" on YouTube.
Buy Lady Redtopp's "Part Time Lover" & "Trail Ride" at Apple.
See Daddy B. Nice's Best of 2023 Southern Soul Awards.
October 4, 2023: Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice's Corner: Top 10 Singles
Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .
-------OCTOBER 2023-------
1. Part Time Lover"-----Lady Redtopp
Joyous, crude, earthy, unschooled. No other genre would give it a minute. Yet, Southern soul DNA courses through these admittedly ramshackle stanzas. The vocalist reminds me of the great girl-group singers of the sixties plucked from the high schools of New York and Philly for the express purpose of achieving authenticity. "I had to put my big girl panties on," Lady Redtopp exclaims. "It took everything in me / To leave that man alone."
Listen to Lady Redtopp singing "Part Time Lover" on YouTube.
November 26, 2023: Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice's Corner: Top 10 Singles
Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .
-------NOVEMBER 2023-------
….5. "Mississippi Soul Girl"----Lady Redtopp
What I thought might be a one-hit wonder at #1 last month wasn't a fluke. Lady Redtopp brings her Louis-Luggage to southern soul, with lots more songs, scads of touring dates (especially for a first-timer), and props onstage with celebrities like King George. Here she tackles our beloved "Mississippi Boy" (which was a 1-hit wonder back in the day) with zest and savvy.
Listen to Lady Redtopp singing "Mississippi Soul Girl" on YouTube.
December 1, 2023: Originally posted on Daddy B. Nice's Corner: Top 10 Singles
Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles For. . .
-------DECEMBER 2023-------
.......3. "Trail Ride"-----Lady Redtopp feat. Bri Rocket
Three consecutive Top 10 singles! "Part Time Lover," "Mississippi Soul Girl," and now "Trail Ride". Lady Redtopp's not afraid to put her uncanny mannerisms into her unique vocals, and so far she hasn't made a mis-step. Her vocal on “Trail Ride” is brash and tough yet devastatingly charming. When Bri Rocket comes in for her verse you instantly sense the drop-off in vocal expertise (just down to the ordinary), and yet it’s Rocket's beautiful bridge that propels the song to an even higher level.
Listen to Lady Redtopp & Bri Rocket singing "Trail Ride" on YouTube.
Send product to:
SouthernSoulRnB.com
P.O. Box 19574
Boulder, Colorado 80308
Or e-Mail:
daddybnice@southernsoulrnb.com
************
--Daddy B. Nice
Tidbits
1.
If She Could Beat Me Rockin'Daddy B. Nice notes: In my capsule review above I noted the southern soul "DNA" in "Part Time Lover". The song is replete with musical and lyrical references to past southern soul. For example,
"...Because if she could beat me rocking,
She could have this rocking chair..."
...is a reference to Vick Allen's southern soul classic "If They Can Beat Me Rockin'". References like this both catch the attention of---and endear new artists to---southern soul fans.
2.
"Part Time Lover" Oft-Used Title
Lady Redtopp made Daddy B. Nice's "News & Notes" in September as follows:
"Part Time Lover" is suddenly a popular song title again. New artist Lady Reddtop has released a single called "Part Time Lover" and a new male artist named J. Lake has done the same. Longtime southern soul aficionados know "Part Time Lover" as the unique, out-of-print classic by little-known yet legendary southern soul diva Lady J. Her "Part Time Lover" has generated dozens of letters to DBN's Mailbag over the last two decades requesting a copy.
There have been many other "Part Time Lover" songs: by Peggy Scott-Adams, Floyd Taylor, Dave Mack, and James Payne among others, although Scott-Adams' and Payne's titles were "Part Time Lover: Full Time Fool". I like the longer song titles. They're more descriptive and stand out from the short and over-used. Lady Redtopp's, for instance, might be called, "Ain't Never Had A Part Time Lover".
3.
From Daddy B. Nice's "News & Notes," Daddy B Nice's Corner, November 15, 2023New artist Lady Redtopp ("Part Time Lover," "Mississippi Soul Girl," "Master Key") is dropping new songs with an alacrity not seen since West Love broke on the southern soul scene in 2019-20, and a debut album will soon be released....
|
|
|
