meters: C/D

The god Art Neville has left us.

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_4059d432-ac9f-11e9-9615-9f5f01d9ebd6.html

RIP. Figured this was coming sooner rather than later, but still, losing him and Dr. John in the space of a few weeks really feels like the end of the great New Orleans R&B era. Hang in there, Irma...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jr03casHKM

Yeah and Dave Bartholomew in between. What a sad time.

Yeah, Dave was 100 though, so that came as no surprise. So happy I saw all of them in New Orleans while I could.

RIP Art

I've never heard Trick Bag before and I wish I hadn't. It's truly awful, irredeemable shite.

The previous 6 go from good to great, so how did they end up making this?

Luckily the last album New Directions is much better.

Is it? I don't think I've ever heard it. Lack of significant commercial success led them to grasp at straws by that point, imo. "Disco is the Thing Today" indeed. I love Allen Toussaint, but he was certainly not immune to over-arranging and schmaltz.

Compared to Trick Bag it is!

https://www.offbeat.com/news/recently-unearthed-album-by-leo-nocentelli-from-early-70s-released-by-light-in-the-attic-label-2/

Cool!

was just reading an article about "walk this way" and apparently joe perry was listening to the meters a lot at that time and it was inspired by them

https://www.offbeat.com/news/recently-unearthed-album-by-leo-nocentelli-from-early-70s-released-by-light-in-the-attic-label-2/

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:23 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait whaaaaaaat

Cabbage Alleytook Ziggy Modeliste's very own rehearing of strict LA tempo, through bursts and tight corners and flexible reflections through originals like "Fade Away" (which kept bouncing back) mellow reverb harmonies of Neil Young's "Bird," lots more--think it might have been the first album where they sang, and worked for me and my friends, for quiet listening and at parties, though not for everybody (like xgau). Don't know if or how it is on CD, but got a clean vinyl copy many years later, and it still sounded right, not dated atall.
I've heard others from that era in passing (mostly at loud parties), and they seemed good. Bummed that Ziggy wasn't with the others backing LaBelle's Nightbirds, but what the hell it's another distinctive, creative, arty, fun album of the 70s, sort of glam funk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightbirds Bowie prob liked it.
They, incl. Modeliste, also worked w other Toussaint clients, like omg Lee Dorsey, as noted here:
https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Lee+Dorsey
Cissy Strut collected a lot of their early prime instrumentals, and of course, Funkify Your Life, which has its own poll thread, is a good career overview.

Shit! strict NOLA tempo I meant; El Lay should be so lucky!

Neil Young's *"Birds"* of course on my god

There was a CD collection of pretty much everything called "Getting Funkier All the Time" which has the 8 albums and singles etc. that came out a couple years ago. It's all pretty ace to me.