🎵 AotW The Neville Brothers - FIYO ON THE BAYOU (SP-4866)

[LPJim]

The Neville Brothers
FIYO ON THE BAYOU
A&M SP-4866

Art Neville - keyboards
Charles Neville, Art Neville - percussion & vocals
Cyril Neville - vocals, keyboards & percussion
Charmaine Neville - vocals
Ivan Neville - percussion

SIDE ONE

Hey Pocky Way 4:14
Sweet Honey Dripper 5:19
Fire on the Bayou 5:16
Ten Commandments of Love 3:45

SIDE TWO

Sitting in Limbo 4:11
Brother John/ Iko Iko 5:34
Mona Lisa 3:45
Run Joe 3:36

ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL:

Vocals - Babi Floyd, Cissy Houston, Eltesa Weathersby, Herbert Rhoad, James Hayes, Jayotis Washington, Jerry Lawson, The Persuasions, Joe Russell, Quay Hozchen, Whitney Houston & Zachary Sanders

Sax - Carl Bouin (baritone) & David Newman
Bass guitar - David Barard & Leo Nocentelli
Drums - Herman V. Ernest III
Percussion - Ralph McDonald, Kenneth Williams & Mac Rebennack (also keyboards)

Trumpet - Jim Weber
Trombone - Jimmy Duggan

Produced by Joel Dorn
Associate Producer: Hal Willner
Recorded at Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana; Sea-Saint Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Atlantic Studios, New York City

Recorded & Mixed by Gene Paul
Horn arrangements by Wardell Quezergue

Art Direction - Chuck Beeson and Jeff Ayeroff
Front Cover Art by Lou Beach & Pearl Beach
Design by Melanie Nissen

Photos by David Gahr, Jeanete Korad & Sydney Byrd

Released in August 1981
Peak Billboard chart position: #166
Reissued on CD in 1991 by Universal Special Products.



JB

 

[dostros]

I'll be looking for this one (on vinyl)! I saw Art Neville and the (Funky) Meters at Ottawa Bluesfest the year before last, and the crowd really turned on for Fire On the Bayou. I didn't know till after that I was watching one of the Neville Bros. And I sure didn't know they recorded on A&M.

 

[Captain Bacardi]

I love this album! "Hey Pocky Way" still gets airplay around here. The title track and "Brother John/Iko Iko" are killer tracks as well. Definitely worth getting!



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Captain Bacardi]

And I sure didn't know they recorded on A&M.

They did a few albums for A&M. Another big hit they had was the album Yellow Moon (SP-5240).



Capt. Bacardi

 

[AM Matt]

I read in a Rolling Stone magazine issue in 1981 that Rolling Stones' Keith Richards (on the cover) listened to "Fiyo On The Bayou". Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[Dave]

I'm sure this was a fairly influential album of its time & as far as getting this across in universalizing its appeal to older & younger listeners, and in all its native authenticity, leave it to a younger Neville brother, or two joining in, as well as Dr. John...!


-- Dave