Journey Through The Past 34 : The Neville Brothers : Yellow Moon

Yellow Moon

Way back when we were living in Taupo in the early 90s I bought Yellow Moon after seeing some clips on TV of the Neville Brothers in action.  I was aware of the name as they had popped up on albums by members of The Band and backed Dr John on some of his seminal early 70's albums.  They were also the core of the New Orleans Funk Maestros The Meters.  Aaron Neville had also had the hit Tell it Like it is in 1967.

This is an album that works by being more than the sum of its parts.  Only the title track seems to me to stand on its own now after more than 20 years but the album still works as a whole with the brothers bringing their gris gris to some Bob Dylan covers (With God on Our Side and Hollis Brown), Sam Cooke's A change is gonna come and the New Orleans standard Will the Circle be Unbroken interspersed with originals and injun chants.  The second line is never far away!!!