Dr. John, aka Mac Rebennack, sat in on guitar at Saturday’s Arts Market in Palmer Park. He joined J.D. and the Jammers unexpectedly. The word was he was just shopping at the market and the bug bit.Richie Havens lives in New Orleans! He moved here recently and has been spotted shopping on the West [...]
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Save The World - One Click At A Time!On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day! Click here to post this on your page or 'blog
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A long-forgotten video posted by BLIP.fm member digitalfreestyleentertainment just reminded me of my favorite Dr. John anecdote:When I was primarily working as a music journalist in the '80s and early '90s, I used to visit the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival each year. I did several interviews with Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) back then.At a particular time, I tried to set up yet another inter...
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While I was growing up pot didn't hold too much cachet with me. After all My Mom smoked pot. How cool could it possibly be? So when I was first passed a joint (Aerosmith show in 8th grade), I laughed and passed it on. I continued passing on pot all through my college years, but that didn't mean I said no to drugs. I skipped the gateway drugs and proceeded directly to hallucinogens. From abou...
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Mac Rebbenack was an expatriate from New Orleans living in L.A. when he 'borrowed' some studio time from Sonny and Cher to record his debut LP with other Crescent City folk. The result was a murky funky fusion mix of chant and voodoo ritual set to a polyrhythmic stew that Atlantic Records head Ahmet Ertegun called "Boogaloo Crap". Thankfully he relented and allowed this now almost forgotten ge...
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This 1969 album is every bit as psychedelic as the cover implies... Mac's weaselly voice sneaking and scratching around twisty congas, Hammond B3 and a voodoo chorus.A dip from another world.
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I have a David Bromberg CD where he says in the liner notes that he'd listen to Dr. John read the phone book. I'd have to agree.
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Dr John the Night Tripper and the Rampart Street Sympathy Orchestra live in Hempstead, NY 1973 A wonderful slice of New Orleans funk history that would certainly qualify as rare grooves. This 1973 recording has been issued incomplete on a couple of European bootlegs. The roster of this ultimately funky ensemble (named The Rampart Street Sympathy Orchestra by Professor Longhair) is: Dr John pia...
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While I was growing up pot didn't hold too much cachet with me. After all My Mom smoked pot. How cool could it possibly be? So when I was first passed a joint (Aerosmith show in 8th grade), I laughed and passed it on. I continued passing on pot all through my college years, but that didn't mean I said no to drugs. I skipped the gateway drugs and proceeded directly to hallucinogens. From abou...
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Nine outstanding tracks recorded in 1991 with ace saxophonist Donald Harrison and his band at NYC's legendary Birdland.And you can't go wrong with an album that contains the following lyric: "I'm only 38 / My woman's 93 / My friends all think I'm crazy / But the will's made out to me!"
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Yesterday was a favorite holiday of mine, Lundi Gras, the precursor to today's Mardi Gras festivities. In celebration, I'm posting what sounds surrounded me as a youth in this world...Dr. John's Mardi Gras Mambo: 9th Ward marching band: New Orleans United Secondline If I could find the videos, this would also feature the big-head costumes from Mardi Gras parades, The Meters/Neville Brothers/T...
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