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Video for Aaron Neville and Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s "Stomping Ground" which won the GRAMMY Award for Best American Roots Performance. ___________________ Stomping Ground Songwriters: Dave Gutter, Eric Krasno and Aaron Neville

I was born in the southern land That's where I became a man My roots was down in New Orleans The birth of jazz and voodoo queens From the heart of Louisiana Marie Laveaux, and Mojo Hannah Grew up on the music of the streets Second line bands and the Indian beats

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground

‘Fesser Longhair, Fats Domino From Smiley Lewis, to the Great Satchmo From the Wild Tchoupatoulas, to the Creole Wild West Neither tribe didn't take no mess From way up town in the Thirteenth ward The Crescent City was my back yard With Mac Rebennack and Scarface John Hung in the Dew Drop all night long

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground Back on my stompin’ ground

Way down yonder in New Orleans The land of them creole queens I sure love this southern town It got me through a lot of ups and downs Times were bad and times were good

I owe it all to my neighborhood From the Ninth ward, to way uptown Every block was my stompin’ grounds

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground

Mole Face and Melvin, Billy Beat the World Trecherous Slim, Secondline Black Big Chief Jolly, Ratty Chin Brother Jake, Apache Red

Stackalee, James Booker Marvin and Johnny, Art the Mighty Row Hornman, Jabby Izzy Koo

That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground

Calliope Project, Magnolia St. Thomas, Pilot Land, St. Bernard Melpomine – Yeah Sometimes them streets was mean, can ya dig? But that was my stompin’ ground, where y’at, Jack?

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yup, my dress went to the grammy awards!

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Album Review: Aaron Neville - Apache

On his new album, Apache, Aaron Neville’s greatest asset - that voice - is also his Achilles heel.

Surprisingly unaffected by its owner’s 75 years, Neville’s wavering falsetto features prominently on the record’s 11 tracks. And while there’s no denying Neville possesses one of the finest voices of his generation, it’s best used in the context of a band such as the Neville Brothers, where his harmonizing shimmers against other voices and his occasional leads shine extra brightly.

On Apache, Neville wisely breaks the all-falsetto-all-the-time monotony with spoken-word and other vocal deliveries that give his upper register a rest from time to time; however, his wailing can grow tiresome over 50 minutes of music.

That music comes courtesy of co-producers Eric Krasno of Soulive and Dave Gutter of the Rustic Overtones and spans the soul of the 1950s (”Sarah Ann”) to urban rhythm and blues of the ’70s (”I Wanna Love You”) to the Neville Brothers’ bayou-rattling funk of the ’80s and ’90s (”Stompin’ Ground,” “Ain’t Gonna Judge You”). Krasno and Gutter use fat horns, sinewy guitars and slick keys to create a record that sounds retro, yet fresh and contemporary, at the same time.

For only the second time in his career, Neville takes on the role of lead wordsmith by plumbing journals he’s kept since the 1970s. This results in topical songs that find Neville addressing his religiosity (”Heaven”), urban violence (“Make Your Momma Cry”) and global warming (“Fragile World”) among other matters close to his heart.

The latter songs form a powerful album-closing couplet that prove Neville an occasionally insightful lyricist, although he’s just as likely to come up with wincers such as you’re the cherry in my pie/you’re the apple of my eye and most animals kill for food/man kills in his neighborhood.

More satisfying are the times when Neville name checks New Orleans legends including Dr. John and Fats Domino, or when he references Marvin Gaye’s pleas for peace and juxtaposes them against Tears for Fears’ nihilism.

While there’s no filler, a couple of songs languish in average territory and will never be thought of alongside the singer’s best work. But despite these few soft spots, Apache, out July 15 and streaming on NPR’s First Listen, is the rare, completely relevant album of new material by an artist in his sixth decade of music making. And that in itself is an accomplishment to celebrate.

Grade card: Aaron Neville - Apache - B-

Hear it here: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/23/483221508/first-listen-aaron-neville-apache

7/11/16

[jurassicplant]

This wicked world is twisted sideways, But all things will turn around. Just when things were looking up side-down, All things will turn... All things will turn around.

- Light at the End, Rustic Overtones

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Dave Gutter - Volume 2

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