Guitarist Leo Nocentelli recently acquired a new piece of home decor of which he is quite fond: a bronze Gramophone. During a July 14 ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Nocentelli and his ...

George Porter Jr. knows you're probably playing "Cissy Strut" wrong, but that's OK. He's here to help. The original Meters bass player did an interview with NYC Radio Live last week in which he ...

By 1968, they'd been rechristened the Meters and were releasing singles of their own, including the instrumentals "Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut." Neville's playful, sing-song organ, ...

Neville's role in the Meters was an unusual one: considered the frontman of a band whose biggest establishing hits ("Cissy Strut," "Look-Ka Py Py") and deep-cut favorites ("Stretch Your Rubber Band," ...

How can you tell that a bluegrass band is from New Orleans? For starters, it’s a dead giveaway if they cover a Meters song. Or in this case, two Meters songs: the Tanglers’ “Grassy Pi” is actually a ...

Starting in 1968, the Meters released a succession of airtight singles, including the instrumentals "Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut," which reached No. 4 on the national R&B chart. Neville's ...