Art Neville

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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).