As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, July 26, 2019

Art Neville


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-neville-funky-mainstay-of-new-orleans-died-at-81/2019/07/22/934eac80-acc7-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?utm_term=.ce42d516fb92
 
I saw the “first family of New Orleans” a couple of times at Wolf Trap, but my favorite set by them was a few years later, at a drizzly evening at Rockville Hometown Holidays; the band seemed to recognize that much of the crowd was unlikely to be especially familiar with them, and so they stuck with their strongest material.
 
Favorite Neville Brothers songs:
 
Fire On The Bayou (my #4 all-time favorite song)  
Sitting In Limbo
Washable Ink
Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy
Brother John / Iko Iko
 
Yellow Moon
Hey Pocky Way
Congo Square
On The Other Side Of Paradise
Voodoo
 
Highlights of Art’s earlier work include “Mardi Gras Mambo” (with the Hawketts), “All These Things” (solo), and “Cissy Strut” (with the Meters).
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