This is the kind of music that you can, as it were, fall backwards and know that you will be caught in welcoming arms and smothered in musical comfort. If it weren't for the hummable melodies and supple bass lines, the artist's comments before songs would be so much self-indulgence, but the album is so packed with good songs Tucka more than gets away with it. Combined with the warm, acoustic, surround-sound feel of the instrumental tracks, Working With The Feeling is one of the most ingratiating albums I've ever experienced. For example, at the beginning of "Tipsy," Tucka chuckles and says, "I'm gonna definitely need my cigar on this one." At the beginning of "Big Train" he says, "Hello? Hello?", as if he's got a bad cell-phone connection. guests in the studio while he's working through these comely melodies. I'm talking about the intimacy with which Tucka addresses his listeners throughout the set, as if they're V.I.P. The numbers of YouTube viewings (as of 4/14/19) back up the hype: "Ain't No Getting Over Me" (76,000), "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong" (26,000), "Big Train" (27,000), "Jungle Love" (43,000) and "Tipsy" (22,000).Īctually, as time has passed and the intimacy of the album as a whole has sunk in, I even enjoy Tucka's voice-over segueing into "Ain't No Getting Over Me." And when I say "intimacy" I'm not talking about the sensual, between-the-sheets talk of "Candy Land" or "Sweet Shop". In summary, an unprecedented number of singles from WORKING WITH THE FEELING made the charts, and these tunes-"Tipsy," "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong," "Ain't No Getting Over Me," "Big Train," "Jungle Love"-surfaced in airplay across the Deep South from eastern Texas to the Carolina's. Listen to Tucka singing "Jungle Love" on YouTube. From Tucka's new, "every-song's-a-classic" album, Working With The Feeling.
I hear a little Bo Diddley in the instrumental track and a little Buddy Holly in the vocal. Listen to Tucka singing "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong" on YouTube. The Pied Piper of Louisiana will add to his long caravan of fans with this ratcheted-down, reggae-rhythm-section-dominated gem. Listen to Tucka singing "Big Train" on YouTube. Listen to Tucka singing "Tipsy" on YouTube.īuy Tucka's new WORKING WITH THE FEELING album at iTunes.Īs a vocalist, Tucka is quite simply unsurpassed, and the driving acoustic-guitar sound of this tune and the Working With The Feeling album as a whole is intoxicating. But of the three, "Tipsy" with its inebriated "brown liquor love" most resembles the sunny, romantic buzz of the original, "Groovin'/ On a Sunday afternoon." In my "New Album Alert" for Tucka I listed this song's antecedents as Frank Lucas' "The Man With The Singing Ding-A-Ling," Betty Wright's "Tonight Is The Night" and The Rascals "Groovin'". Listen to Tucka singing "Ain't No Getting Over Me" on YouTube. (I recorded a "short version" without the opening voice-over.)
Once you hear it, you won't be able to forget it. "Ain't No Getting Over Me" - TuckaĬupid couldn't have shot an arrow at your heart more accurately than Tucka does with this stunning cover of the Ronnie Milsap country classic. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview For.ġ. I've been rolling out one or two singles a month since the CD appeared in late November of 2018-a little late, unfortunately, for serious consideration in last year's awards-and still find in reviewing the album that I haven't promoted all of its pleasures.įrom the singles charts at SouthernSoulRnB:ĭaddy B. Nice has previously reported, a "bagful of hits". Whether it's the product of a heartthrob or a nerd (yeah, haha, nobody's buying that), Tucka's new album Working With The Feeling is, as your Daddy B. Did Tucka cutting off his spectacular dreads and donning Von Miller-like specs and a porkpie hat-his newest image-have anything to do with that pretty-boy shout-out from Hollywood Hayes? Out On Her," recorded a song last year called "Vitamin D," in which he censured his significant other as follows: The Southern Soul singer Hollywood Hayes, best known for his tune "A.P.B. Nice's New CD Reviews.Īpril 14, 2019: TUCKA: Working With The Feeling (Hit Nation) Five Stars ***** Can't Miss. Nice's Top 100 Countdown: The New Generation (Chart In Progress) Tucka (New 5-Star Album Review!) Daddy B. Tucka (New 5-Star Album Review!) - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnB
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