Big Woman – Darrell Kelley (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

This is not just R&B, but R&B at the cutting edge of where we find it today. As a genre, it has changed its form a lot, evolving from early rock and roll through the Motown years, rap and then its more recent girl group pop years to where we find it today. And through these twists and turns, the music has had a few common factors. It has always been a combination of groovesome and seductive, accessible and infectious, soulful and exciting. At its best, all these things at once.

And Darrell Kelley represents where we find the genre today and that blend of digital talent and analogue sonics makes Big Woman a slinky, seductive, sophisticated, sensual song.

The song celebrates his kind of woman and it is great to see that in a world where the size zero body type seems to be revered, someone is standing up for, actaully, make that celebrating, a more realistic image of women.

But then again, soul music, and what R&B is, if not a close sibling of soul, has always glowed with such honesty. Let’s have more of it in the world.