As a founding member of the Meters and Neville Brothers, New Orleans vocalist and keyboardist Art Neville helped immeasurably to shape the contemporary New Orleans funk sound. Neville's first band, the Hawketts, tasted local success in 1954 with the carnival perennial "Mardi Gras Mambo" on Chess. He cut some nice solo singles for Specialty during the late '50s, notably "Cha Dooky-Doo," as well as contributing two choruses of storming piano to Jerry Byrne's 1958 classic "Lights Out." "All These Things," a gentle ballad, also did well locally in 1962 on the Instant logo. He assembled the Meters in the mid-'60s and the instrumental quartet proved the Crescent City's answer to the MG's until their 1977 breakup. That's when Art and his siblings formed the Neville Brothers, who went on to reign as the leading musical export from New Orleans. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
(campers only): George Porter Jr. & the Runnin' Pardners, Devon Allman's Honeytribe, The Tin Men Saturday, June 4: The Radiators, Sonny Landreth, Tab ...
Three of the four founding Neville Brothers will come together to celebrate Art Neville's 75th birthday later this month. Simply billed as The Neville...
John, who joined the fray during the second half of the show for a performance of his classic "Right Place Wrong Time" However the highlight of the ev...
