Artist	Song
The Neville Brothers	Yellow Moon
from Yellow Moon (1989)
The Wild Tchoupitoulas	Brother John
from The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1991)
The Meters	Hey Pocky A-way
from Rejuvenation (2005)
Aaron Neville	Tell It Like It Is
from Good Vibrations 2 Disc One (2007)
The Meters	Cissy Strut
from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology (2005)
The Neville Brothers	A Change Is Gonna Come
from Yellow Moon (1989)
The Meters	Fire On the Bayou
from Fire On the Bayou (2005)
The Neville Brothers	Bird on a Wire
from Brother's Keeper (1990)
The Neville Brothers	Fly Like an Eagle
from Uptown Rulin' - The Best of the Neville Brothers (1999)
The Neville Brothers	Amazing Grace
from Live on Planet Earth (1994)
The Neville Brothers	Ain't No Sunshine
from Uptown Rulin' - The Best of the Neville Brothers (1999)
The Neville Brothers	Voodoo
from Live on Planet Earth (1994)
Aaron Neville	Everybody Plays the Fool
from Warm Your Heart (1991)
Art Neville	All These Things
from The Very Best of the Neville Brothers (2006)
The Meters	Look-Ka Py Py
from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology (2005)
The Meters	People Say
from Rejuvenation (2005)
The Neville Brothers	Love the One You're with / You Can't Always Get What You Want
from Live on Planet Earth (1994)
The Neville Brothers	Sister Rosa (Studio Version)
from Uptown Rulin' - The Best of the Neville Brothers (1999)
The Neville Brothers	Sitting in Limbo
from Fiyo On The Bayou (2004)
The Neville Brothers	Mystery Train
from Brother's Keeper (1990)
The Neville Brothers	Brother Blood
from Brother's Keeper (1990)

Comment:

Everybody knows that jazz got its jump-start in the Crescent City about 100 or so years ago, but not five people in 100 will identify New Orleans as the birthplace of funk. And if funk could be said to have four fathers as its forefathers, they'd all be brothers . . . named Neville. Canadian-transplant producer Daniel Lanois brings out the brothers' spooky, swampy juju in the title track from their 1989 album [i]Yellow Moon[/i]. But if you really want to dig down below the surface, right back to their second-line roots, check out the Meters (led by the eldest Neville, Art) in "Hey Pocky A-way." And if there was ever any lingering question as to whether their funk plays outside bayou country, just check out their blackened-catfish retooling of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." Game, set, match.

In Next Steps, we'll hear the Nevilles' spiritual side, from a reworking of the most famous prayer in all of Christianity to a rarely played Dylan delicacy.

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