Neville's next country music project involved appearing on 1994's Rhythm, Country and Blues, an album of duets featuring R&B and Country artists performing renditions of classic country and R&B songs. He followed the album up with another platinum seller Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas. 38 on the Billboard country singles chart, and was highly acclaimed by fans and critics, resulting in a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards in 1994. The follow-up single " The Grand Tour", a cover of country music legend George Jones' 1974 hit, peaked at No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart (where previous hits "Don't Know Much", "All My Life", and "Everybody Plays the Fool" all reached number one).
In 1993, Neville released the platinum-selling The Grand Tour on A&M Records with lead single "Don't Take Away My Heaven" reaching No. 8 on the Hot 100 and another duet with Ronstadt "Close Your Eyes".ĭuring 19, Neville expanded his repertoire as a recording artist and ventured into making country music. In return, Ronstadt produced his platinum-selling 1990 album Warm Your Heart including the hit single " Everybody Plays the Fool", a cover of the 1972 Main Ingredient song, which reached No. 2 on the Hot 100, and was certified Gold for selling a million copies, while the album was certified Triple Platinum for US sales of more than three million. 1 Grammy-winning hits " Don't Know Much" and " All My Life". In 1989, Neville teamed up with Linda Ronstadt on the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind which included four duets by the pair. Neville released his first solo album since the late 1960s in 1986 with the independent release Orchid in The Storm. At least five other Par-Lo singles, three of them by Neville himself, are known to exist. It was not the label's only release, as some sources claim. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
The song topped Billboard 's R&B chart for five weeks in 1967 and also reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind " I'm a Believer" by the Monkees). Neville's first major hit single was " Tell It Like It Is", released on a small New Orleans label, Par-Lo, co-owned by local musician/arranger George Davis, a friend from school, and band-leader Lee Diamond.
The first of his singles that was given airplay outside of New Orleans was "Over You" (Minit, 1960).
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