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The Meters: Funk From The Crescent City

Roger St. Pierre, NME, 26 October 1974

THERE'S ALWAYS been something unique about New Orleans music, whether it's the jazz of Louis Armstong, the boogie-woogie blues of Champion Jack Dupree, the lopping rock 'n' roll of Fats Domino or Lee Dorsey's soul outings.

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