Cissy Strut
| "Cissy Strut" | |
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| Single by The Meters | |
| from the album The Meters | |
| B-side | "Here Comes the Meter Man" |
| Released | 1969 |
| Genre | Funk |
| Length | 2:59 |
| Label | Josie |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | A– |
"Cissy Strut" is a 1969 funk instrumental by The Meters. Released as a single from their eponymous debut album, it reached No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Meters recorded a follow-up, "Sophisticated Cissy", which was included on the same album. The song was also featured in the 1997 film Jackie Brown.The A.V. Club called the song a classic deeply rooted in New Orleans music tradition.
According to a compilation set by WRTC-FM Digital Archive Project the song has been covered by Los Holy's, Johnny Lewis Quartet, Sunny & the Sunliners, KVHW, Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Robert Randolph, Dennis Chambers with John Scofield, U.S. Army Band with Steve Gadd, Los Masters, The Butch Cassidy Sound System, Joe Bravo, Earl Van Dyke, Willard Posey Reunion, Derek Trucks Band, King Herbert & The Knights, Lotus, Zero, and Steve Kimock Band. Other bands that have covered the song are Hypnotic Willie, Slightly Stoopid and Oz Noy.
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