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Release Date: 2024Label: Color Red Records
We are closing out 2025 with a bang and our penultimate release of the year will be a brand new instrumental record from legendary New Orleans bassist George Porter Jr. (The Meters) and his Runnin' Pardners!Porter's Pocket will be available to the general public on February 7, 2025, but as a member of the Color Red Vinyl Club, you will get the record TWO MONTHS ahead of its street date with a beautiful deep green colored vinyl.
Porter was a founding member of The Meters and a lifelong session musician, notably acting as Allen Toussaint’s go-to bass player throughout the 60s and 70s. Declared by Pitchfork as “one of the greatest bass players who has ever lived,” and consistently finding himself atop Bass Player Magazine and Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 bassists of all-time”, Porter was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for his influential work with New Orleans funk progenitors The Meters.
Porter Jr is joined by his longtime collaborator keyboardist Michael Lemmler (Jubilation, TriFunctA), drummer Terrence Houston (The Funky Meters, Toubab Krewe), and newest member Chris Adkins (Raphael Saadiq, Mark Broussard) on guitar.