Name: Cabbage Alley
Brand: Meters

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MOVLP857

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2008-09-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

8718469533480

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Meters

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Music On Vinyl

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, New Orleans's Meters churned out irresistible funk instrumentals that were distilled to their essence and intended to get people up and shaking. When the Josie label went bankrupt in 1971, the band moved over to the reprise label and began to broaden their horizons, expanding their sonic palette and putting more emphasis on vocals. Cabbage alley, their reprise debut, finds them experimenting with tropical sounds ("Soul island"), Allman brothers-style guitar leads ("Stay away"), Neil Young covers ("Birds"), and socially conscious lyrics ("Lonesome and unwanted people"). Still, it's the simple funk anthems that hit home on cuts such as "You've got to change," "Do the dirt," and "Chug chug chug-a-lug" (a single added here as a bonus). This and its follow up, 1974's rejuvenation, offer many prime meters moments, though neither are as consistently brilliant as their josie recordings found on the meters, struttin', and look-ka py py.

Cabbage Alley

Music GB