The Meters – Meters (LP Vinyl)
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Before James Brown's funk empire fully colonized the radio and well before "funk" became a genre shorthand, four musicians from New Orleans were quietly building the template in Allen Toussaint's Sea-Saint Studios. That debut LP introduced the world to a rhythm section so locked and telepathic that it would later anchor sessions for Dr. John, Paul McCartney, and Robert Palmer, making the Meters one of the most sampled and studied bands in American music history.
Debut 1969 album by New Orleans' The Meters. 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.
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Side B
UPC: 843563191583
Label: Jackpot Records
Release Date: 9.5.25
Format: LP Vinyl