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There’s the entire New Orleans musical tradition, and then there’s Mem Shannon. Clean, simple but transcending genres, he channels the spirits that inspired Fats Domino, Prof. Longhair, the Funky Meters and The Neville Brothers. I’m From Phunkville is the fifth album by a man whose day job was his night gig. For 15 years starting at age 22 he drove a cab in the heart of New Orleans ’ French Quarter from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. “I learned to read people pretty quickly,” says Mem. “When you’re in a cab, that’s something you just happen to learn along the way. You learn how to size people up in their different degrees of sobriety, and it all applies to everything I’ve done since then. I’m still watching and learning from people.”