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George Porter Jr. Defines Funk

June 1, 2014 by: Brian Turk

When the Meters were formed in New Orleans in 1965, with crooner Art Neville as their frontman (who had already been performing solo since the mid-’50s), guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, the genre of funk had not y...

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