{"id":3987,"date":"2013-06-25T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2013-08-03T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:18:05","slug":"art-neville-bo-diddley-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3987","title":{"rendered":"Art Neville – Bo Diddley Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Art Neville – Bo Diddley Pt1<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the day finds you well.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a storming bit of funky, Crescent City soul from one of that burgs leading lights.<\/p>\n

Art Neville<\/strong> has been waxing groovy music for almost 60 years (?!?), starting with the Hawketts<\/strong> \u2018Mardi Gras Mambo\u2019 in 1954, recording a number of solo singles for a variety of New Orleans labels (Specialty, Instant, Cinderella and Sansu) before co-founding the mighty Meters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though he found himself behind the keys in the Meters, he was no slouch in the vocal department. His excellent Eddie Bo<\/strong> written\/produced \u2018Hook Line and Sinker\u2019 from 1966 is a lost classic, as is the tune I bring you today.<\/p>\n

Neville recorded two 45s for Sansu, both in 1968, right near the end of that label\u2019s first incarnation.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today was the first of those, his raucous reworking of Bo Diddley\u2019s<\/strong> epic, 1955 debut, \u2018Bo Diddley\u2019.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Art dispenses with the standard Bo Diddley beat (it\u2019s in there, sort of, but sped way up). Backed by the guys that would shortly become the Meters, he rips through the tune, skirting the edges of funk like a Second Line on fast-forward.<\/p>\n

The arrangement is credited to Allen Toussaint<\/strong>. As wild as this 45 is, considering the flights of rhythmic imagination the Meters would soon embark on, they (especially Zig<\/strong>) almost seem restrained.<\/p>\n

Nevilles follow up 45 (and his last for Sansu) has an even more traditional bent, with a cover of Raymond Lewis\u2019s<\/strong> old-school NOLA classic \u2018I\u2019m Gonna Put Some Hurt On You\u2019.<\/p>\n

It is a groovy 45, and especially interesting considering that the Meters would blast off a year later.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll see you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

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