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Fire On The Bayou

Despite the exodus of the great New Orleans session players to L.A. in the Sixties, the city's musical traditions haven't died out. Currently, the big thing in the Crescent City is Allen Toussaint and the Meters, who produce and play on other people's albums. But I would be hard pressed to advance t...

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Biography

The Meters were better known - and better paid - as New Orleans' finest backup band than as a self-contained feature act. Their lean, peppery R&B gave a funky flavor to recordings by out-of-towners like Paul McCartney and Labelle, but on their own, their rhythms were too tricky, their vocals too understated, and their sound altogether too spare to reach a broad audience.

When Art Neville formed...

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