What's going to happen today? You see it your way, I see it mine, But we both see it slipping away. If you're tired of today's musical fare--tired, that is, of the attitude, cynicism, and glitter--be advised that the sensitive ballads of Billy "Soul" Bonds, not to mention the hilarity contained in his up-tempo work, are the perfect antidote. Bonds is a country boy with impeccable manners, a fine ear for melody and an indefatigable desire to make music that soothes and ingratiates.
Bonds began his professional career in the eighties, notching a regional hit with "Baby, I Been Missing You. A follow-up, Heart and Soul , followed in Despite a recording hiatus, Bonds continues to perform across the chitlin' circuit, most recently headlining the Pre-Father's Day Show in Jackson, Ms.
The memorable songs from his catalog are staples of Deep South radio outlets. When you say 'Scat cat! August 30, Once again Thomisene Anderson and Jewel Bass participated, delivering scintillating background. DBN 2. But before the fact, who would have believed it was destined to make Bonds a major Southern Soul star?
I remember in particular omitting "Scat Cat" from my Top 25 Southern Soul Singles of , but I was aware even then that I was going against the grain of public sentiment. Six months earlier, in an August Billy "Soul" Bonds artist-guide update, I had already written that "Here Kitty Kitty" was "a gentle, finely-focused portrait of a domestic squabble, and one of the most highly-requested songs on the Stations of the Deep South in the summer of Soul's "Cheating And Lying" have recently done, all a pundit can do is marvel at the unpredictability of art and consumer taste and try to grab hold of the rear bumper as the bandwagon passes.
Popularity, in other words, forces even the most recalcitrant critic to reassess his initial judgments. What may have sounded familiar or trite to him somehow managed to have the opposite effect on a great number of people. Anybody has to respect that. And as your Daddy B. Nice searched the stanzas of "Scat Cat Here Kitty Kitty" over the hundreds of times I heard the song over the ensuing year, I gradually settled upon the one ingredient in the song's success that had been eluding me.
And that was the power--the reality--of the woman's complaint. Perhaps, being a man and a husband myself, I wasn't so different from the man in the song, the guy taking his wife for granted. I may not have committed his laundry list of domestic crimes, but I wasn't unfamiliar with "tuning out. Chronically betrayed and neglected by her husband, the heroine in "Scat Cat" was very much at the end of her relationship.
It was that grievance, that sense of being wronged, that I believe struck such a chord with fans, and particularly women. And when Barbara Carr issued her cover of "Scat Cat" Ecko Records in , the contrast with the original was illuminating.
Covers of good songs always are, but hearing the Bonds-composed words sung by a woman gave the song new and added force. It was no longer a man telling a story second-hand; it was the woman herself--or such was the conceit of the record. And when Barbara sang verses like, "All this neglect and disrespect, I can't take that from my man. Why just the other day, A man said I was still pretty. And yet, the credibility and power in Carr's words reflected back on the artistry of Billy "Soul" Bonds.
And when you went back to Billy's version, so sugar-coated compared to Barbara's, you heard things you hadn't heard before. You heard more of the substance which had been there all the time. There are the saccharine violins, the orchestral trimmings, the tinkling background sound Bonds' trademark , the show-tune-like crescendos on the choruses, not to mention Bonds' typically humble and soothing vocal.
The warbling of these two near-invisible divas ratchets up the classic Southern Soul ambience--an atmosphere that seems almost out of place in these frantic, perfunctory, rat-race times. And it still mystifies your Daddy B. Nice how such an old-fashioned-sounding song could have garnered so much love and appreciation from a 21st-century audience.
And yet, the Southern Soul audience does love it and does crave it. The proof is that three of the biggest Southern Soul hits over the same period-- Ms. It's a throwback sound so drenched in nostalgia that in today's musical universe the records sound daringly original.
It's a remarkable comment on today's entire Southern Soul genre. Well, prior to its release, Bonds fans would have been hard-pressed to settle upon the signature song by this unheralded, chitlin' circuit, singing-songwriting master.
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