Meters, The

The Meters: Funk From The Crescent City

Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, NME, 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 ...

The Meters and Dr John: Walking to New Orleans

Review by Don Snowden, Pasadena Guardian, December 1975

WHILE UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED as one of the birthplaces of jazz, New Orleans has never received its due as a rhythm and blues center in the ...

The Meters: Restless Days In New Orleans

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, June 1976

By rights, the band should be right up there at the top. But, it seems they have hassles and problems to contend with. On their ...

The Meters: The World’s First Metric Funk Band

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, June 1976

Cissy Strut! What a great evocation of the Meters in that title, their second Island album, a kind of Greatest Hits, that’s blasting through the ...

The Meters: The Battle of New Orleans Re-visited...

Retrospective and Interview by Cliff White, NME, June 1976

It's a battle ART NEVILLE of THE METERS is still fighting. He's happy about being on the Stones tour – but angry at never having ...

The Wild Tchoupitoulas: The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Island)/ The Meters: The Best Of ... (Reprise)

Review by Cliff White, NME, July 1976

WILD TCHOUPITOULAS extend an invitation to all those who've ever loved New Orleans music... ...

The Meters: Trick Bag

Review by Cliff White, NME, October 1976

DAY ONE: can't get past the third track. Before reaching it, 4.08 mins of 'Disco Is The Thing Today' revealed a commercial, characterless leap onto ...

The Meters: Paul's Mall, Boston

Live Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, November 1976

THE METERS may well be the finest performing American band. Without resorting to such modern pop trappings as smoke bombs and gyrating pianos, the Meters ...

The Meters: Twenty Years on the Funk Meter #1

Retrospective and Interview by Cliff White, Black Music, January 1977

THE METERS' ART NEVILLE gives his personal account of New Orleans R&B in the first part of a mammoth feature by CLIFF WHITE ...

The Meters: Twenty Years on the Funk Meter #2

Retrospective and Interview by Cliff White, Black Music, February 1977

THE METERS Story told in Part Two of Cliff White's mammoth interview with ART NEVILLE ...

The Meters: New Directions

Review by Cliff White, NME, August 1977

SINCE THIS album was recorded it's reported that The Meters have succumbed to the clash of personalities and aspirations that's dogged their career for several ...

Leo Nocentelli Looks Back

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, April 1984

LOS ANGELES is a Mecca for hungry musicians...and not only those with dreams of stardom. The constant demand for movie and TV soundtracks, commercial jingles ...

The Meters

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, unpublished, May 1984

"One of my theories is that as long as I don't know about something, I can continue to seek it out," George Porter reflected in ...

Dr. John/The Meters: I Been Hoodood

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1984

THERE ARE GROOVES and there are grooves: that which is laid down by the Meters is definitely one of the latter. ...

The Meters: Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary (Rhino)

Sleevenotes by Don Snowden, Rhino CD, July 1992

SAY WHAT else you will about Paul and Linda McCartney, they sure knew how to throw a party back in 1975. ...