Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

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• 01 Thinking Of The Day
• 02 Riverfront
• 03 I Want To Cry
• 04 Pretty Mittie
• 05 Give Me Back My Loving
• 06 Getting Nowhere
• 07 Till I Get There
• 08 You've Become A Habbit
• 09 Tell Me Why
• 10 Your Song

At just sixteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now... Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion, this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. What makes ''Another Side'' even more extraordinary, is the fact that the album sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes.