→ Thanks also to the late Blue DeVille
Nawlins R'n'B, bayou funk, Afro-Caribbean voodoo atmosphere and... the unique angelic voice of brother Aaron : the Neville Brothers' sound became one of the trademarks of the Crescent City.
The origins of the Neville Brothers as a band are intricately entangled with the history of several previous New Orleans groups where the brothers honed their trade : eldest brother Art's band The Hawketts in the 1950s; The Sounds, that became the house band for Allen Toussaint's Sansu label in the late 1960s, and later took the name The Meters; The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi-Gras Indian group led by their uncle George Landry aka Big Chief Jolly, whose backing band were the Meters until 1976 when they disbanded.