At 72, the prince of R&B has reverted to childhood. Aaron Neville has a new album called My True Story, and it’s a collection of the songs he sang growing up in the projects of New Orleans in the 1950s and ’60s, back when doo-wop was king.
“I’ve been into every doo-wop there is,” Neville says. “I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.”
Neville got his education from groups like The Drifters, The Clovers and The Flamingos. They’d had such an influence on him that their sound has kept popping up throughout his more than 50 years in music — from his family group, The Neville Brothers, to his long solo career.
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