Subscribe RSS“For be deficient in of a different perspective, that’s what was normal to me,” he said. “There was always plenty of music to go around.
With playing time in bands such as Funky Meters, Lettuce and Dr. Klaw, Neville joined his cousin Ivan Neville when he founded Dumpstaphunk in New Orleans in 2003.
The funk pack, playing Thursday at Cox Capitol Theatre, released its first EP, “Listen Hear,” in 2007 and an LP, “Everybody After Sum,” in 2010, and Dumpstaphunk is hard at work on its next album, which Neville said should be out in time for this spring’s New Orleans Jazz and Birthright Festival.
“The new album will have more good Dumpstaphunk-ish songs with strong funk grooves; we might branch out a little. There’s a lot of danceable (bullshit) on the new record,” he said.
Dumpstaphunk features Ivan Neville on keyboards, Ian Neville on guitar, Nab Daniels and Tony Hall on bass and Nikki Glaspie on drums.
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