Aaron Neville
Apache
TellIt Records
AARON Neville's career-making hit Tell It Like It Is was fifty years ago and he turned 75 in January this year, but that unmistakable voice is still on glorious form, and too little appreciated for the magnificent instrument it is – unarguably in the same league as more celebrated names like Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. In 2013, fans Keith Richards and Don Was re-booted his career with a disc of doo-wop songs on Blue Note entitled My True Story. On this album he teams up with the rather less famous – but well enough known on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. – Eric Krasno and Dave Gutter on 11 originals, which have been musically tailored to his style with a dapper precision. It would be fair to guess that Gutter and Krasno, who also produces, have a few Neville Brothers and Meters (the vintage New Orleans band with which two of Aaron's siblings also played) albums at home. Neville's sense of place is pitch perfect, with a lovely hymn to his home town (where his home was destroyed by Katrina) in Stompin' Ground and beautiful prayer from a man who is a devout Catholic in Heaven. His photographer wife Sarah Ann should be well pleased with her song in praise of her artistry too.
Keith Bruce
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