The Meters
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The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977. The band played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey and Dr John.
While The Meters rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered along artist like James Brown one of the progenitors of funk music and their work is highly influential on many other bands, both their contemporaries and modern musicians working in the funk idiom.
The Meters' sound is defined by an earthy combination of tight melodic grooves and highly syncopated New Orleans "second-line" rhythms under highly charged guitar and keyboard riffing. Their songs "Cissy Strut" and "Look-Ka Py Py" are considered funk classics.
Discography
- Studio albums
- The Meters (1969), Josie
- Look-Ka Py Py (1970), Josie
- Struttin' (1970), Josie
- Cabbage Alley (1972), Reprise
- Rejuvenation (1974), Reprise
- Fire On The Bayou (1975), Reprise
- Trick Bag (1976), Reprise
- New Directions (1977), Warner Bros.
- Compilation albums
- The Best of The Meters (1975), Mardi Gras, Virgo
- Good Old Funky Music (1990), Rounder
- Funky Miracle (1991), Charly
- Fundamentally Funky (1994), Charly
- Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology (1995), Rhino
- Kickback (2001), Sundazed
- Zony Mash (2003), Sundazed
- Live albums
- Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary (1992), Rhino
- Live At The Moonwalker (1993), Lakeside
- Fiyo at the Fillmore, Volume 1 (2003), Too Funky - as The Funky Meters
