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Unearthed live AUDIO of The Neville Brothers from Tipitina’s 1977

The Neville Brothers

Happy Jazz Fest 50! Here are some very rare audio recordings of The Neville Brothers on their home turf, live and raw, early in their career. I’m talking about 5 and a half hours of pristine soundboards! These are revelatory recordings and absolute gems with just the right amount of analog hiss. There are jams, ballads, jazzy work outs, fierce soul, hushed doo wop, and New Orleans rock n roll stompers. It’s a pleasure to find treasures like this and put them out into the world for others to enjoy!

Download both recordings together as MP3 or FLAC and FLAC.


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The Neville Brothers
November 12, 1977
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s

SBD > ??? > CDR > WAV > FLAC

01. (fades in) “Don’t Push The Button” > Jam
02. Fly Like An Eagle [Steve Miller Band]
03. Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
04. Baby What You Want Me To Do [Jimmy Reed]
05. The Greatest Love
06. instrumental
07. Tell It Like It Is
08. Africa
(set break)
09. (fades in) A Night In Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie]
10. Be My Lady
11. Fiyo on the Bayou > Ain’t No Use tease > Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) [Sly & The Family Stone]
12. All These Things [Allen Toussaint]
13. Fever [Little Willie John]
14. Woman’s Gotta Have It [Bobby Womack] > Love Ballad [L.T.D.] > Woman’s Gotta Have It
15. Here Dey Come, Meet The Boys On The Battlefront (with Big Chief Jolly & The Wild Tchoupitoulas)
(set break)
16. Ode To Billie Joe [Bobbie Gentry] (Instrumental)
17. Shake Rattle and Roll [Big Joe Turner], “Louisiana Woman”
18. Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
19. Hey Pocky A-Way

Aaron Neville – vocals, tambourine
Cyril Neville – vocals, percussion
Charles Neville – vocals, saxophone
Art Neville – vocals, keyboards
Gerald Tillman – organ
Newton Mossip or James Ledet – drums
Roger Poche or Hutch Hutchinson – bass
Renard Poche or Victor Sircoff – guitar

At the end of track 16, Art announces that New Orleans has a new mayor, “Morial”, Which confirms that the dates of these recordings are correct, as November of 1977 was when Mayor Ernest N. Morial was elected.

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The Neville Brothers
November 26, 1977
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s

SBD > ??? > CDR > WAV > FLAC

01. Shake Rattle & Roll [Big Joe Turner] > I Take What I Want [Hayes – Hodges – Porter] > Sexy Ways [Hank Ballard]
02. I’m Leaving It Up To You > Momma Don’t Allow [Hank Thompson] > Jam
(set break / end of the night?)
03. Fly Like An Eagle
04. // Pocky Jam (inc. Wop Wop Wop Diddly > Suzie Q [Dale Hawkins] > I’m Your Captain [Grand Funk Railroad] > Cisco Kid [War] > Get Down [War] > Wop Wop Wop Diddly > It’s Your Thing [Isley Brothers])
(set break)
05. // Down By The Riverside
06. Let’s Start All Over Again [Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra / Clyde McPhatter] > Tell It Like It Is
07. Cabbage Alley (inc. Gossip > Cabbage Alley > Give Up The Funk [Parliament] > Louisiana Woman > Fear Hate Envy Jealousy (as Love Hate Envy Jealousy) > Don’t Push The Button (many of the same lyrics as “Wake Up”) > Respect Yourself [Staple Singers])
08. Junco Partner (with alternate lyrics) (with Big Chief Jolly) //
09. // Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Grateful Dead) > A couple lines of “Soothe Me” [Sam Cooke / Sam & Dave] are sung > jam/ending (there is another song during the jam that I can’t put my finger on)
10. The Greatest Love, Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
11. Be My Lady
12. Baby What You Want Me To Do [Jimmy Reed]
13. Stormy Monday [T-Bone Walker]
(set break)
14. Fiyo On The Bayou (inc. Hi-Heel Sneakers [Tommy Tucker]/ Ooh Poo Pa Doo [Jessie Hill], Burning Up In Love For You (?), Pressure Drop [Toots & The Maytals], My Bonnie, Down By The Riverside, I Been Hoodooed [Dr. John], Breakaway (?))
15. Arianne [Roudey / Martin]
16. Fever [Little Willie John]
17. All These Things [Allen Toussaint]
18. Instrumental
19. This Is My Story [Gene & Eunice]
20. A Night In Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie]

Aaron Neville – vocals, tambourine
Cyril Neville – vocals, percussion
Charles Neville – vocals, saxophone
Art Neville – vocals, keyboards
Gerald Tillman – organ
Newton Mossip or James Ledet – drums
Roger Poche or Hutch Hutchinson – bass
Renard Poche or Victor Sircoff – guitar

This recording, unlike the 11/12/77 recording, has cuts between many of the songs, so the order of some of the songs or segments could be wrong.

Big Chief Jolly

George Porter Jr, Ivan Neville, Johnny Vidacovich & June Yamagishi – Late Night at the Maple Leaf – Jazz Fest 2011

At the risk of making this blog too NOLA-centric, the next few posts will feature Jazz Fest related content. While I was in New Orleans for the 2nd weekend of Jazz Fest I shot around 9 hours of video footage in the span of only four nights. As that footage makes its way to youtube I’ll be posting it here.

First I’ll point out that a stellar audio recording of this show can be downloaded here: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=544956. (or 24bit for you audiophiles: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=545006)The rest of this blog entry will feature 5 videos, comprising about 67 minutes of footage from this two and a half hour show.

The first night after we arrived, I went straight to the Maple Leaf for a unique lineup that’s been over 2 years in the making (thanks to Deborah Vidacovich for the booking efforts, and the cookies). As some of you may know, Johnny Vidavovich (the legendary New Orleans drummer) has a weekly gig at the Maple Leaf on Thursday nights billed as “the Trio”. Although the gig doesn’t always consist of only 3 players, it almost always consists of the Johnny Vidacovich / George Porter Jr rhythm section. One of the most usual third players is June Yamagishi, guitarist for Papa Grows Funk. In fact, this Trio configuration has actually released a live album that you might want to check out: We Came To Play.

On this particular night, George, Johnny & June were joined by heavyweight Ivan Neville. Ivan’s barebones rig preference, like John Medeski, is a Hammond B-3 organ and Leslie speaker coupled with a clavinet. When Ivan comes to the Maple Leaf, he comes to bring it, and this night his chops were as deep as I’ve ever witnessed.

The night opened right up with some greasy funk improvisation until George broke a bass string. [about 5.5 minutes into the video located below] As he re-strung, Ivan & June locked into a nasty groove. That groove began to build up higher and higher until [about 10 minutes into the video] George releases all of the energy in the room and opens up the second weekend right, belting out the opening lines to “Let The Good Times Roll.” Then June let’s loose a straight fire guitar solo. Yeah, You Right.

This next video includes 4 tunes, beginning with a cover of the Jessie Hill classic “Ooh Poo Pah Doo,” which segues into another New Orleans classic “Don’t You Just Know It” by Huey Piano Smith. Then Ivan drops right into the “Cabbage Alley” organ riff, which really allows Johnny to show off his second-line drum rhythms. Johnny’s second line will have you mesmerized as they segue into another groove that George turns into a swampy version of Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour.” Quite a first set, and captured from the perfect vantage point in the front row.

The second set began with more improvisation, which quickly turned into a cover of the Billy Preston tune, “Will It Go Round In Circles.” See the next video to watch Ivan get a little gospel with it.

Unexpectedly, Corey Glover, the singer for Living Colour (and more recently, Galactic), jumped on stage for a riveting cover of the Temptations’ mind-bender, “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”! There isn’t much else to be said, so just watch/listen to it!

This final video begins with Ivan leading the crowd on a sing-along through Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” This moves into another very unexpected selection, “Come Back Jack” an unreleased tune by Leo Nocentelli, original guitarist for The Meters. That then turns into a song that I had hoped to hear, a tune that Ivan & George tend to bust out when they play together at the Maple Leaf, the Tami Lynn classic made famous by the Neville Brothers, “Mojo Hannah.”