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Trick Bag
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Track Titles
A1. DISCO IS THE THING TODAY
(The Meters) 4:08
A2. FIND YOURSELF (The Meters) 4:10
A3. ALL THESE THINGS 3:30
A4. I WANT TO BE LOVED BY YOU
(The Meters) 5:22
A5. SUITE FOR 20 G (James Taylor) 4:30
B1. (DOODLE LOOP) THE WORLD IS A LITTLE BIT UNDER THE WEATHER 3:50
B2. TRICK BAG 3:19
B3. MISTER MOON (The Meters) 4:00
B4. CHUG-A-LUG 3:20
B5. HANG 'EM HIGH (Frontier) 5:35
HONKY TONK WOMAN (Jagger/Richards)
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Liner Notes
IT'S SUMMERTIME AGAIN, THE METERS ARE TOURING WITH THE ROLLING STONES AGAIN, AND I'M DANCING TO THEIR NEW ALBUM WHEN A FRIEND DROPS IN.
FRIEND: YEOW! HOT-WEATHER MUSIC.
RP: WELL, IT'S ALWAYS HOT IN NEW ORLEANS.
FRIEND: I WISH WE WERE THERE RIGHT NOW . . . (FRIEND BEGINS DANCING.)
THE METERS HAVE BEEN MAKING DANCE MUSIC YOU CAN'T SAY NO TO SINCE THEIR "SOPHISTICATED CISSY" AND "CISSY STRUT" WERE HITS DURING THE LATE 60'S. INDIVIDUALLY, THEIR ROOTS EXTEND EVEN FURTHER BACK INTO THE RICHLY RHYTHMIC HERITAGE OF NEW ORLEANS MUSIC. KEYBOARD MAN ART NEVILLE AND HIS BROTHER AARON (WHO RECORDED "TELL IT LIKE IT IS") WERE MERE TEENAGERS WHEN THEY FOUNDED THE HAWKETTS AND SCORED A LOCAL HIT WITH "MARDI GRAS MAMBO," A RECORD SO DANCEABLE IT'S STILL PLAYED AT CARNIVAL TIME. ART WENT ON TO SCORE ON THE SPECIALTY LABEL WITH A ROILING ROCK & ROLL TUNE, "CHA DOOKY-DOO." IN 1961 HE TOOK ON A SONG BY ALLEN TOUSSAINT CALLED "ALL THESE THINGS." HIS VERSION DIDN'T GO FAR, BUT THE UNIQUES TURNED THE SONG INTO A POP HIT AND THEN, MORE THAN A DECADE LATER, UNIQUES' LEAD SINGER JOE STAMPLEY MADE A COUNTRY HIT OUT OF IT. NOW THE METERS HAVE RETURNED THE TUNE TO ITS ROOTS WITH THEIR OWN SOULFUL VERSION. THE OTHER ORIGINAL METERS�GUITARIST LEO NOCENTELLI, BASSIST GEORGE PORTER AND DRUMMER ZIG MODELISTE�HAD BEEN MAKING WAVES AROUND NEW ORLEANS FOR A WHILE BEFORE THEY BANDED TOGETHER WITH ART NEVILLE DURING THE MID-'60S. SINCE THAT AUSPICIOUS EVENT, THEY'VE PLAYED ON MOST OF THE HITS PRODUCED BY THE PROLIFIC ALLEN TOUSSAINT (LEE DORSEY, DR. JOHN, LABELLE AND MANY MORE) AND MADE PLENTY OF THEIR OWN DISTINCTIVE MUSIC, WHICH IS A BLEND OF CRESCENT CITY RHYTHM-AND-BLUES, CARIBBEAN RHYTHMS (ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT IN THE NEW ORLEANS GUMBO), AND HIGH ENERGY ROCK & ROLL. "TRICK BAG" EXEMPLIFIES THE FUSION MUSIC THE METERS HAVE CREATED. IT WAS AN R&B HIT FOR GUITARIST/VOCALIST EARL KING IN 1962, BUT HERE THE BAND UPDATES THE ORIGINAL WITH A WHIPLASH ROCK RIFF. CYRIL NEVILLE, WHO IS ART'S BROTHER AND THE MOST RECENT ADDITION TO THE METERS LINEUP, CONTRIBUTES A DEFT, DRIVING CONGA RHYTHM, AND MR. KING HIMSELF STEPS IN FOR ADDED AUTHENTICITY. THE RESULT IS A SOUND THAT COMBINES HISTORY WITH IMMEDIACY, THE GRIT OF THE NEW ORLEANS BLUES WITH THE PERCOLATING POLYRHYTHM OF THE LATEST DISCO HITS. WHAT? THE METERS GOING DISCO? DON'T BE ALARMED. THE METERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DISCO. THE SLINKY, SOPHISTICATED RIFFING THEY INTRODUCED ON THEIR EARLY HITS WASN'T JUST A CONTINUATION OF CRESCENT CITY TRADITIONS; IT WAS AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON THE DANCE MUSIC THAT'S CALLED DISCO TODAY. THEY'VE GOT A LOT ON THEIR MINDS HERE� SOCIAL COMMENTARY IN "THE WORLD," THE LYRIC BEAUTY OF "ALL THESE THINGS," LEO'S RINGING ROCK GUITAR SOLOS, CYRIL'S AFRO-BEAT�BUT IT'S YOUR BODY THEY'RE AFTER.
�ROBERT PALMER
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Musicians
PRODUCED BY ALLEN TOUSSAINT AND THE METERS FOR RHINELANDER MUSIC CO., INC.
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND VOCALS BY TERRY (PESUKI) SMITH AND TONY OWENS.
SPECIAL THANKS TO EARL KING FOR HIS "FATHER-IN-LAW" VOCAL PART ON "TRICK BAG"
ART DIRECTION/LOCKART
DESIGN/LOCKART-PALOMBI
PHOTOGRAPHY/JOHANNA VAN ZANTWYK
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