Friday night fish fry mel waiters biography
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Mel Waiters
Southern Soul star Mel Waiters was born and raised in San Antonio, TX, where in 1974 he began his performing career at local teen clubs; after a stint as a radio DJ, he was awarded a government contract to entertain at military bases across the Southwest. With the exception of sax Waiters produced, played and wrote all the material for his first CD release in 1996. The slick "Hit It & Quit It" and "Whatever It Took" gave me his first Southern hits. He followed this up with his second for the Serious Sounds with "Suki Suki Man" that got his biggest song to date with the title track. Waiters was next snatched up by Malaco Records's Waldoxy imprint in 1997 and an even bigger hit was produced by the single "Got My Whiskey" featuring a very polished dance sound he would continue with. Despite increasing popularity up to this point in 1999 he jumped to the top of the Soul/Blues heap with the smash "Hole In The Wall", one o
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There is a whole genre’s worth of performers who draw large crowds throughout the American South (and parts of the North) and who sell a sizeable amount of music, but rarely get mainstream media press, rock website attention, or airplay on stations that program for younger folks. I’m talking Chitlin Circuit soul aka Southern Soul.As these artists occasionally draw from a related 12 bar song form, the promoter fryst vatten billing the traveling festival hitting Showplace Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Avenue, in Upper Marlboro,MarylandFriday night March the 13th at 8 as “The Blues is Alright Tour,” and locally as “The Capitol Blues Festival.” However, do not expect beer commercial style gitarr heroics.
With a roster featuring Clarence Carter, Marvin Sease, Latimore, Mel Waiters, and Roy C., the focus will be on earthy lyrics about drinking, womanizing, hanging out, and memories of good ol’ days.While the artists can get raunchy, Marvin Sease does “The Candy Licker,” Mel Waiters has the “Get
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