Cabbage Alley

Cabbage Alley
Studio album by The Meters
Released	May 11, 1972
Genre	Funk
Length	47:10
Label	Reprise MS 2076
Producer	Allen Toussaint, Marshall Sehorn
The Meters chronology
Struttin' (1970) Cabbage Alley (1972) Rejuvenation (1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(favorable) [2]
Robert Christgau	B [3]

Cabbage Alley is the fourth studio album by the funk group The Meters, inspired in part by Professor Longhair's "Hey Now Baby".^[4] It is the band's first album with Reprise Records after leaving Josie Records which went bankrupt in 1971.

Interviewed in 2001, the 69-year-old New Orleans bass drummer Lionel Batiste Sr. described the old neighborhood: "Cabbage Alley was around Perdido Street. They had a lot of musicians down there—it was almost like a [red light] district—fast women. Near the battlefield. They had a whole lot of pimps, too, in there."^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You've Got to Change (You've Got to Reform)"	Ziggy Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli	5:15
2.	"Stay Away"	Nocentelli	5:22
3.	"Birds"	Neil Young	4:23
4.	"The Flower Song"	Nocentelli	4:51
5.	"Soul Island"	Modeliste, Art Neville, Nocentelli, George Porter, Jr.	3:10
6.	"Do the Dirt"	Nocentelli	2:36
7.	"Smiling"	Neville	3:09
8.	"Lonesome and Unwanted People"	Nocentelli	4:39
9.	"Gettin' Funkier All the Time"	Modeliste, Nocentelli, Porter	3:19
10.	"Cabbage Alley"	Neville	3:30

2001 digitally remastered CD bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push and Shove) Part I"	Modeliste, Nocentelli	3:30
12.	"Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push and Shove) Part II"	Modeliste, Nocentelli	3:26

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.^[6]

• Ziggy Modeliste – composer, cowbell, drums, gourd, wood block
• Art Neville – composer, keyboards, organ, piano, tambourine, cowbell, vocals
• Leo Nocentelli – composer, guitar, tambourine, vocals
• George Porter, Jr – bass, composer
• Cyril Neville – congas
• Squirell – congas

Production

• Tim Livingston – project manager
• Bunny Matthews – liner notes
• Barry Hansen – liner notes
• Bob Irwin – mastering
• Al Quaglieri – mastering
• Rich Russell – design
• Ed Thrasher – art direction
• David Willardson – cover art

References

1. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Allmusic: Cabbage Alley – review". allmusic.com. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
2. Palmer, Bob (3 August 1972). "The Meters: Cabbage Alley". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow) (RS 114). ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on 18 November 2007.
3. Christgau, Robert. "The Meters". RobertChristgau.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
4. Thompson (2001), pp. 57 & 168.
5. Burns (2006), p. 89.
6. "Allmusic: Cabbage Alley – credits". allmusic.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.

• Burns, Mick (2006), Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance, Baton Rouge: LSU Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3333-0.
• Thompson, Dave (2001), Funk, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-629-7.

External links

• Stewart, Jon (14 May 2015), "Adam Horovitz", The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, New York: Comedy Central.