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PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL
The debut 1969 album by New Orleans’ The Meters has been sampled by hundreds of Hip-Hop producers over the years from the East Coast, West Coast, and Down South.
Led by organist Art Neville, the quartet was rounded out by jazz-influenced guitarist Leo Nocentelli, along with the bubbling rhythm section of bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo” Modeliste.
Their regional influences were a smashing together of rock n’ roll, syncopated ‘second line’ rhythms from Mardi Gras parades, and jazz improvisations that only could have come from the New Orleans music scene.
The Meters helped move R&B music toward the heavier direction of funk—complicated rhythms meeting economically powerful riffs that were the wave of what was to come.
Cut from the Original Analog Master tapes by Kevin Gray.
Tracklist:
A1 Cissy Strut
A2 Here Comes The Meter Man
A3 Cardova
A4 Live Wire
A5 Art
A6 Sophisticated Cissy
B1 Ease Back
B2 6V6LA
B3 Sehorns Farm
B4 Ann
B5 Stormy
B6 Simple Song
