That is how the Neville Brothers came onto my radar- first with eldest brother Art Neville and his mid-’50s band The Hawketts “Mardi Gras Mambo,” soon followed by Aaron and his incredible funereal death threat “Over You” (1960), his laid back “Tell It Like It Is” (1966) and eventually followed by all the rest of the Neville Brothers catalog. After my first Greyhound trip down to ‘The City that Care Forgot’ I became obsessed with everything New Orleans from its spicy Cajun food to its bayous full of alligators and Zydeco music to its history- especially the early Storyville jazz pioneers and the cool cats of the late 1940s to mid-1960s New Orleans rhythm & blues scene. LOS ANGELES, CA- When I was seventeen years old, my now deceased mother moved from icy, grey-hued Buffalo, NY to the warm purple, green and gold Mardi Gras saturated French Quarter of New Orleans.
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