Cabbage Alley

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Cabbage Alley
File:Meters cabbage alley.jpg
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)Struttin'1970
Cabbage Alley
(1972)
Rejuvenation
(1974)Rejuvenation1974
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [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]

Production

References

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  4. Thompson (2001), pp. 57 & 168.
  5. Burns (2006), p. 89.
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