Charmaine Neville
w/ Reggie Houston's Crescent City Connection
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 7, 2007

Recorded from KBOO FM again this year. KBOO is an all volunteer radio station that has been broadcasting this festival for 20 years. There will be some inherrent reception problems and some drops in the music from time to time, but I have tried to "fix" all where possible.

Recorded from FM > Sharp MD > HD > Wave Editor > FLAC > you

Enjoy the tunes, twofthrs

"There were simply no limits to her skills. Charmaine Neville performs blues, jazz, funk, rhythm & blues, rock and World Beat with astonishing range. She sang with open-hearted brilliance, switching voices (a mean impression of Louis Armstrong), scatting like a jazz diva & rocking like no tomorrow."-BOSTON GLOBE

Born into the third generation of the New Orleans legendary musical family, Charmaine Neville (daughter of Neville Brothers saxophonist, Charles Neville) has nonetheless worked hard to get where she is and make her music known as her own. The work has paid off - as one reviewer recently wrote, "Charmaine Neville is beginning to rival her father and uncles in terms of popularity in New Orleans." She started out backing up the Neville Brothers and went on to perform with The Survivors, a band whose alumni list includes Harry Connick Jr. and Bobby McFerrin. It was here that she first started working with saxophonist Reggie Houston.

Houston, who moved to Portland three years ago, convenes his Rose City band, The Crescent City Connection, to back Neville and her longtime pianist Amassa Miller.

Set List
1. reggie houston's story>kansas city
2. that's the way of the world
enter charmaine neville
3. africa>
4. iko iko
5. new orleans
6. those days > circles
7. i put a spell on you >outro