Ivan Neville

We've been friends for a while now.

We met in New Orleans at a lobster boil where, I don't know who played, maybe Ivan Neville played or something.

Crawfish boil, but it was Neville.

So crawfish boil.

[upbeat music] In this episode, we sit down with Ivan Neville and Tony Hall of Dumpstaphunk at the High Sierra Music Festival in Grass Valley.

We talk about growing up in the New Orleans music scene, their early days playing music, and the paths that eventually brought them together.

I met Tony back in the days when we were teenagers.

We played together probably the first time around '81, somewhere around there, with the Meters did.

And because this is The Green Room, we even uncover a couple of stories Ivan and Tony didn't know about each other.

Enjoy our conversation with Ivan Neville and Tony Hall.

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I have John Primer with Chicago Bound, the title song.

But first up is Ivan Neville, CeCe Adcock, joined by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood with One Step at a Time.

Woman! Yeah

When I left out of Georgia, 1934 My baby, she's baby, daddy, please don't go But I left that town I left that town When I left out of Georgia, I was Memphis bound I stayed in Memphis, 1939 The woman I was loving didn't save me no mind But I left that town I left that town When I left out of Memphis, I was St. Louis bound Thank you.

I mean, he's shared the stage with a laundry list of people.

Phil Lesh, Ivan Neville, Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, Steve Winwood...

It goes on and on and on and on.

I

keep it all...

I mean, so you have... there's looks like five well you're you have a fairly recent ep that was 2025 but i want to tell me about the neville jacobs album

yeah so that's you and ivan neville me and ivan neville yeah we became buddies um we met during the bridge years but then and then uh i remember him sitting in with the bridge at jack like during a jazz fest in in new orleans and and then I remember the next day going to the casino.

Cause I, I like to play some cards every now and again.

I didn't know that.

Um, Cyril and, uh, Ivan Neville, Juvenile.

Yeah, it was great.

Halftime show was awesome.

So that'll be fun.

Ivan Neville, a member of the Neville brothers.

Oh, there's also a football game tonight.

A football game.

It's going to be joining us and doing the national anthem at halftime.

Eric Church, Kirk Franklin, Juvenile, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville as well.

Going to have a bunch of legends of the game, including, of course, Steve Curtis DeLoach.

Can't forget him and the dunk over the goalpost there, recognizing of course, what took place in that punt.

Nobody on this team had really done this process before.

So like, let's start from scratch.

And, you know, you talk about the New Orleans music community, the way we decided to approach it was just reach out to friends, you know, Ivan Neville and Anders Osborn and just go, hey, this is the idea, you know, we're trying to figure out what the steps are to get to that process, right? And, Every time we had, you know, one of these writing sessions, something magical would come from it.

Like, you know, we talked about the Anders song.

It's produced by Steve Jordan.

The album features Willie Weeks, Isaiah Sharkey, Ivan Neville, special guests Kim Wilson, and more.

That entire group joined Guy for his birthday celebration concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

While in Austin for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, we asked Joe Bonamassa about Guy's impact.