Trick Bag is the seventh studio album by the funk group The Meters. The name comes from their cover of the Earl King single of the same name.
All songs written and composed by The Meters, except as noted.
Credits adapted from AllMusic.
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The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977. The band played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, and Dr. John. The Meters acted as the house band for Allen Toussaint's New Orleans soul classics of the 1960s and are responsible for bringing New Orleans second line grooves into popular music.
While The Meters rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered, along with artists like James Brown, one of the progenitors of funk music and their work is influential on many other bands, both their contemporaries and modern musicians working in the funk idiom.
The Meters' sound is defined by an earthy combination of tight melodic grooves and highly syncopated New Orleans "second-line" rhythms under highly charged guitar and keyboard riffing. Their songs "Cissy Strut" and "Look-Ka Py Py" are considered funk classics.
The Meters is the debut studio album by the American funk group The Meters. It was released in May 1969 and is the first of eight albums by the band. The band's early works were developed through improvisation. Band members had spent most of the 1960s performing together in nightclubs of New Orleans. They had a fluid musical style that included elements of R&B, rock and jazz.
A review by AllMusic noted the album's simplicity and nuance and called it "impressive". Tamara Davidson of Revive Music had a positive review and stated "the album is filled with infectious grooves, filthy bass lines, and revolutionary drum rhythms." According to Brian Knight of The Vermont Review, the album "set the pace for both the Meters and the entire New Orleans funk sound."
All songs written and composed by Art Neville, Ziggy Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli and George Porter, Jr., except as noted.
Credits adapted from AllMusic.
Tie you up baby, really tight
In a lover's knot...
I'm in the mood for my leather boots
With the leopard spots
Take you down to my side of town
Where I learned to love
Strap you down, honey
Pet you nice with my velvet glove
You dial my number
So let me take the lead
I'm the man, understand
With the smooth slight of hand
And all the magic you need
T-t-t-t-t trick bag, sit back and just enjoy the show
Burn you with desire
Trick bag, come on and let your body go
Gonna lay it on thick
So the memory'll stick
Chew me up with your perfect mouth
Don't you spit me out
Teach you good, Little Miss Hollywood
What it's all about
You call me up baby, in the middle of the night
You say you're sweating red
And you're dripping on you’re bed
T-tripping in the moonlight
T-t-t-t-t trick bag, sit back and just enjoy the show
Burn you with my fires
Trick bag, come on and let your body go
Gonna lay it on thick
So the memory'll stick
You call me up baby, in the middle of the night
You say you're sweating red
And you're dripping on you’re bed
T-tripping in the moonlight
T-t-t-t-t trick bag, sit back and just enjoy the show
T-t-t-t-t trick bag, come on and let your body go
Gonna lay it on thick
Trick bag, sit back and just enjoy the show
Trick bag, come on and let your body go
yeah, my hand are quick
Trick bag, sit back and just enjoy the show
Trick bag, come on and let your body go…go…