Biography
The Meters were a band that performed and recorded from the late 1960s until 1977. They were based in
New Orleans. While the band never enjoyed huge popular success, it was nonetheless greatly admired by cognoscenti and is considered one of progenitors of
funk in the 1970s.
Art Neville, the group's frontman, launched a solo career around the
New Orleans area in the mid-
1950s, while still in high school. The Meters formed in the late
'60s, and became the house band for
Sansu Enterprises, an
Allen Toussaint-owned...
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The Meters
- 3 Tabs
- Label: Sundazed Music
- Released: 1969