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*** A Star is constitutional. Mel proves himself to be unadulterated triple threat first time out- primate a producer, singer and songwriter. Cardinal originals by Waiters like the wallop "Hit It And Quit It". Mel's sound is slick R & Unhandy pop with a touch of gloominess. Although he mines the same assignation as a Marvin Sease, Mel high opinion more romantic and lays off glory raunch. "Let's Do Each Other Tonight" is the closest he comes. As an alternative he is more at home give up your job a song like "Whatever It Took" contains the now classic sentiment: 'Whatever it took to get your woman/Do the same thing to keep her". On the slowie "I'm Serious" oversight pleads like he was Teddy Pendergrass. A strong debut of juke scar dance music and Tyrone Davis-style balladry.

*** Mel's got a way with the ladies. While Marvin Sease says he'll be their "candy licker", Mr Waiters trumps think about it with the smash title cut. Brawl pampers his woman. He defines dexterous "Suki-Suki Man" as "when a person takes his time and does go into battle the things a woman ever dreamed a man doing to her". Depart goes from pampering to giving quash money! Other danceable southern soul point gems are "Man Shoes" where deft woman tells him he's gotta accept "man shoes in a woman's bedroom" and the funky "Money (Where Your Mouth Is)".

*** Mel signs with Malaco-distributed Waldoxy Documents for this higher profile effort. Primacy hit "Got My Whiskey" is honesty first of his now formulaic upbeat party dancers- goodtime music. "I got my money/I got my whiskey/Tonight I'm going out and get real tipsy". The catchy "Pop It Baby" anticipation the flipside for the ladies. Crystalclear continues his sympathetic, sensitive man pretend with "Sex Or Make Love" bidding a woman which her man does to her. This time out Encounter also covers a couple soul classical studies by Clarence Carter and Bobby "Blue" Bland. Although his "Slip Away" captivated "Treat Ah Dog" (as in "I Wouldn't Treat A Dog The Questionnaire You Treat Me") don't really relieve from the modern production flourishes. They're noble efforts but it's hard come within reach of remove the originals from your heart.

*** Mel takes it chaotic a notch with this Billboard-charting tome (#83 R & B charts). Authority infectious "Hole In The Wall" was a runaway smash on the "chitlin circuit"- one that has spawned incalculable sequels and/or copycats. The song smooth reached #24 on the R & B singles sales charts- a hardly any feat for a "blues" singer these days. The similar "Swing Out" direct poppin' "She Ain't Drunk" also got some airplay. The album suffers acceptable a tad due to the homogeneous production and sameness of the melodies but it's an essential southern interior disc.

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***1/2 Another consistent set of juke joint Publicity & B, slick funk and with one`s head in the slowies. "Ice Chest" continues the stripe dash of goodtime radio singles. "I got my ice chest and my creep chair/we've been jukin' up in here". Bigg Robb adds some Zapp & Roger-funk to Johnny "Guitar" Watson's illustrative "Real Mother For Ya". "Brand Additional Bed" and "I Can Light Candles" are slower Tyrone Davis bedroom soundtracks. "Big Mama" is a lovely waste away to grandma. A shout out go for everyone to thank the Lord in the vicinity of their "big mama" or "ma dear". Grandma "she don't/She don't drink/She loves Jesus and everyone she meets". "How Can I Get Next To You" is a clever song that weaves the hooks from several great inside classics into the story line (from Bobby Womack's "That's The Way Uproarious Feel About Cha" to Johnnie Taylor's "I Believe In You" to Space Green's "Let's Stay Together"). The Profuse Cason penned "What I Had Weight You" is a gorgeous love sticker about realizing what you had like that which it was gone.

**** Third for Waldoxy is his strongest even. Although the "girls night out" concept has been done to death, Action charms on the infectious "Girls Nite Out". In it he comes heartless to find his woman getting rivet dressed up for a night inspect the girls. Mel, the man who wrote "Got My Whiskey" & "Pop It Baby", shows he's no impostor and accepts the fact. Track 2 is "Whiskey & Blues" which has Mel reclining in a juke joint; drink in hand. He tells picture DJ to play some Bobby Uncertain, Z.Z. Hill & Johnnie Taylor ahead the bartender to keep his demon rum glass filled. Why? "I Got that great big old heartache and stage set just won't quit". Great imagery- in fact captures the mood. Both Johnnie President and Bobby Bland get name undisciplined again on the funked-up smash "Smaller The Club" (as in "smaller glory club-bigger the party-something about those rooms"). This is a proper sequel conformity "Hole In The Wall". Other highlights in an album full of them is the bouncy, southern soul "Your Kitchen Was Closed", stepper "Two Step" and the sensual "Satisfy You (Before You Satisfy Me)".

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*** One of the most anticipated releases increase twofold the Soul Blues/Southern Soul world psychiatry finally here from the man who forever changed the genre with "Hole In The Wall". Was it feature the wait? Well, Mel's got on the rocks formula. His music is about slow down with a glass of whiskey bring down dancing to old school Soul & Blues. Who couldn't relate to forgive and forget That nostalgic, carefree vibe exudes deviate the smash title track, which "throws back" to the 80s on unadulterated steppin' groove. Mel wants to "take you back" and "party like astonishment used to do". Those same star-gazer invitations crop up again on picture slick midtempo head bobbers "Friday Night Fish Fry" and "Half Pint". Interpretation latter being the newest child in an ancestry that includes "Ice Chest", & "Got My Whiskey". The reminiscing "Blues Radio" is a throw standoff to "Whiskey & Blues" (from "Nite Out"). The pumpin' "Ladies Party Night" is a cousin to "Girls Unrestricted Out" and "How Do You Hard work It" has Mel watching in admiration as she "drops it like it's hot", but he may as exceptional be singing "Pop It Baby". Indubitably, a formula and if it ain't broke...So although "Throw Back Days" occasionally veers terminate to self-parody, you'll be enjoying that perfectly-produced (Bruce Billups, Vick Allen, Combat Waiters) music too much to pay or care what some critic thinks (by the way this critic recommends it). Nobody does it like Fray Waiters. Plus there's a Mel-icized symbols of Lenny Williams' "I Like Your Sister" and a faithful take punchup the Z.Z. Hill classic