Straight from the "guitar wizard", Straight From Uptown is straight soul laced with love and full-bodied vocals. OOH, and you can't just have one! It's too hard to favorite one track. Straight From Uptown is a flowing creation of love experiences. From self love to DARK CHOCOLATE 4BLAQMEL love and, of course, love gives us the blues sometimes as Blaqmel so powerfully depicts in his simply stated, IF YOU. See it's SITUATIONS at times that let you KNOW WHO U R and he's compelled to ask, BRUTHA WHY, and compelled to say WHENEVER I SING there's a message for you, so just COME TO MY PARTY and kick like its MY PLACE. With an uncanny knack to make a cover his own and his originals familiar, Melvin C McKnight aka Blaqmel takes you on a soulful passionate and intimate journey. His catchy originals are woven seamlessly into the fabric of classic material from Prince, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Donny Hathaway.