{"id":3540,"date":"2022-02-26T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2022-02-26T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T00:20:33","slug":"willie-clayton-laments-and-declares-i-cant-keep-loving-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/willie-clayton-laments-and-declares-i-cant-keep-loving-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Clayton Laments And Declares… “I Can’t Keep Loving You”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Willie Clayton Biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Willie Clayton is a singer-songwriter and producer. Like many other black singer\/songwriters, he began performing gospel music in church settings as a youngster and then moved into the secular field as a lyricist, producer, and singer. An active recording artist since the 1970s, Clayton\u2019s career has endured almost 40 years and has spanned a repertoire in the styles of R&B, soul, and gospel. Birthed into an era of soul and R&B legends, a time when music was pure, lyrics had meaning, and artists had pronounceable names, Willie Clayton is now one of the few working artists of his contemporaries. Since the 1970\u2019s he\u2019s been crooning with the likes of Ron Isley, Bobby Womack, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, yet now he stands nearly alone, facing a new generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in the Deep South (Indianola, Mississippi) during the days of segregation, Clayton, unable to find proper management or the success he sought moved to Chicago in 1971. Like many other African American artists in the 1970\u2019s, the young singer ended up contracted to Hi Records in Memphis, where he worked with producer Willie Mitchell and the vaunted Hi rhythm section. Hi issued a series of fine Clayton efforts on its Pawn subsidiary, including \u201cI Must Be Losin\u2019 You,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Time You Made Up Your Mind,\u201d and \u201cBaby You\u2019re Ready,\u201d but none of them hit. Finally, in 1984, Clayton enjoyed a taste of soul success when his \u201cTell Me\u201d (produced by General Crook) and \u201cWhat a Way to Put It\u201d, scored on to the R&B charts. Let\u2019s Get Together, Clayton\u2019s 1993 album for Johnny Vincent\u2019s Ace record label, was a smooth soul-blues hybrid dominated by originals but titled after Al Green\u2019s immortal hit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply back on the scene after the mainstream success of Clayton\u2019s \u201cBoom Boom Boom and \u201cA Woman Knows\u201d, which landed on Billboard album and airplay charts. Clayton is prepared to teach a new generation the right way to love. Self classified as an all-encompassing singer, he refuses to be pigeonholed in one genre of music. \u201cThere aren\u2019t many real gritty R&B singers. Bobby Womack, Charlie Wilson and I are the last of that generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n