{"id":488266,"date":"2019-07-22T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=862071"},"modified":"2019-07-22T13:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:53:53","slug":"new-orleans-stalwart-art-neville-of-neville-brothers-the-meters-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/new-orleans-stalwart-art-neville-of-neville-brothers-the-meters-dead-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Stalwart Art Neville of Neville Brothers, the Meters Dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art Neville, a giant of New Orleans music who helped co-found the Neville Brothers<\/a> and the funk outfit the Meters<\/a>, has died, Nola.com<\/a> reports. He was 81.<\/p>\n

Neville\u2019s longtime manager, Kent Sorrell, confirmed the musician\u2019s death, saying, \u201cIt was peaceful. He passed away at home with his adoring wife Lorraine by his side. He toured the world how many times, but he always came home to Valence Street.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pianist and singer, Neville\u2019s career spanned more than 60 years and left an indelible impression on New Orleans and American music. He helped set the bar for New Orleans funk with the Meters, who released eight albums between 1969 and 1977 and served as the backing band for artists like Dr. John, Robert Palmer and Allen Toussaint. He then joined forces with his brothers Charles, Aaron and Cyril to form the Neville Brothers, a highly influential and respected soul outfit that boasted a slew of famous fans, but never notched a hit of their own.<\/p>\n

Perhaps no song better summed up Neville\u2019s influence than \u201cMardi Gras Mambo,\u201d<\/a> a track he recorded with the Hawketts when he was just 16-years-old. The song remains a staple of New Orleans\u2019 famous Fat Tuesday celebrations, ringing out across the city every February and March.<\/p>\n

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Art Neville, a giant of New Orleans music who helped co-found the Neville Brothers and the funk outfit the Meters, has died, Nola.com reports. He was 81. Neville\u2019s longtime manager, Kent Sorrell, confirmed the musician\u2019s death, saying, \u201cIt was peaceful. He passed away at home with his adoring wife Lorraine by his side. He toured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 01:25:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}