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'Hole In the Wall', Got My Whiskey', and 'She Ain't Drunk', are siren songs for many women in the deep south of Thibodaux, Louisiana. Sherrie Streams, an employee of Cintas, a uniform cleaning service business in Thibodaux, says, "We love Mel down here in the bayou--his records are popular here, every jukebox down here has his songs in them."

Waiters said, "I sing about real life from the experiences I've gone through and people respond because they've been through it too." Go to any juke joint, bar or hous and if there is food, women and liquor flowing, you can bet you'll here these songs. Mel Waiters, the true bluesman of the South, croons thes and many others hits form his CD entitled "Material Things." His songs set the tone for nightly dancing and socializing for folks who love their food and drinks with good music.

Waiters' has a smooth voice with a Southern twist, and his message drives home the message that with him around, everything will be alright. His ballads can move even the most stonehearted. He has chocolate brown skin that covers an attracive physique. He's a man born to sing the blues with a rhythm and blues loop. If his music were to be compared to anyone's, Johnnie Taylor or Marvin Gaye comes to mind. His melodic voice pulls you into his music as he sings of lost loves ruined relationships, and getting his groove on. His songs address all the teritories of life.

Waiters hails from San Antonio, TX where he cut his musical teeth in the church. Like most singers of his caliber, he describes in song what it's like to find love, keeping it and losing it too. He puts his feelings on the line to show his audience, which is predominently female, that he is not afraid to tell the truth, or of what it is like to be in love with a good woman, a bad woman or both. "Running Stop Lights," a cut with a haunting vibe of yearning for a forbidden lover, expresses how hard it is to love someone who belongs to another. Heartwrenchingly happy songs are his forte, an oxymoron for sure, but it defines his lyrics.

Waiters' song, "Hole In The Wall," from the 'Material Things' CD, is a finger snapping dance song. It brings to mind memories of going out partying and looking for some place else to go after the clubs close. So you search for or had heard about an after hours joint that's a hole in the wall; a place frequented by folks who know how to have a good time. It could be a bar or someones's house or a shack out in the woods. Waiters said, "An aunt of mine told me when she heard this song it would be one of my best sellers and she was right." Only the privileged few know where the hole in the wall joints are. "You go in a hole in a wall joint, start partying, you're having a good time listening to good music, eating chicken wing and drinking whiskey," and before you know it, he says, "It's seven in the morning and you're still in there." This song makes you want to find hole in the wall and have a good time.

Many of the songs written by Waiters run the emotional high and low scale of being in love and then being devastated when your lover betrays you. If Mel Waiters can sing about it as he does then it makes perfect sense that listeners can relate to it maybe get through their own personal situations a little easier. After all, isn't that what singers and performers do? They help people deal with the realities of life through song.

Waiters is a lyricist and also plays instruments on many of his cuts that he displays his prolific skill as a performer and entertainer. He is sensuality in its purest form. His music puts you in a time warp that conjures up memories when the game of love and relationships were simpler. The millennium couples of today could learn a lot just listening to his lyrics to solve problems of the heart. He's old school and proud of it. His songs each that being n love is okay, and if it lasts a lifetime with one individual, that's great and if not, you must 'Compromise' to make your marriage, love affair or 'whatever' lasts a long time.
The 'Woman In Need' CD is another Malaco Records production where Waiters breaks out soft and heavy crooning to women in 'Second Class', to watch out for men who treat them like chattel. His 'Sex or Make Love,' hits hard in places that may make many women question the casual, one night stands as opposed to making love. His opening verse, "Did he take his time or was he in a rush or did he touch you gently girl, the way you want to be touched?" He's telling women they shouldn't accept second-class love affairs. If the man is satisfied during lovemaking then the woman should be too. Waiters wails sensually that, "Sex is one thing but making love has a meaning and when done right, makes you want to scream." www.jahworks.org