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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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SUTC - Dr. John
The Rampart Street Sympathy Orchestra on Funky Friday
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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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Discovering NOLA through Modern English and High Powered Blotter Acid
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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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for funky friday
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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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What Mardi Gras Means To Me: An Audio Essay
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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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The Doctor Is In
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Actually he never left.New album came out Tuesday, it's a compilation but has a lot of alternateable cuts and delectabliciously delightfuls. 35 tracks, good deal for 9 bucks (Amazon mp3)Check it
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more than you know
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The music was written by Vincent Youmans, the lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu. The song was published in 1929.Here covered by the good doctor
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SUTC With Dr John
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Track:Ja-Ki-Mo-Fi-Na-Hay
Here is the Good Doctor, in company with tenor saxophonist Don Harrison and his band, live at New York City's Birdland in November 1991, covering one of the building blocks of the whole New Orleans sound - a tune "officially" written (but not copyrighted) by James "Sugarboy" Crawford and first recorded in 1954, but in all probability much older than that
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IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?
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Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Difranco and Terence Blanchard join Dr. John and the Lower 911 in this musical paean to Dr. John's beloved New Orleans. This powerful new recording features stirring and thought-provoking songs about the post-Katrina crises in the ravaged jewel of the American South, including "City That Care Forgot," "Time for a Change," "Promises, Promises," "We Gettin' There"...
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Shouting in an empty room
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For the benefit of the two or three people who still click on the red button when I post, here is Dr John live in concert. The song was originally written long distance by telephone, and is a collaboration between Gerry Goffin and Mac Rebennack, intended for Aaron Neville. He, however, was unwell and unable to record it, so Dr John cut it himself.He describes the live performance of it thus - "...
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I Know It Ain't Friday, But...
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But, feeling a bit loose and celebratory today,the booze is overflowing some places, and I don't feel much like working (surprise, dat). Like Dr. John say, " day breaks but never falls, Night falls but never breaks..." A little food for thought.
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Happy One Year Mogiversary (to me)
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Track:Time Marches On - (featuring B.B. King/Willie Nelson/Dirty Dozen Brass Band)
Mountains of the Moon and St Stephen1969 at The Playboy Mansion
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Funk Wars 1
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Dr.John , Professor Longhair , Earl King , The MetersBig ChiefThis starts out kind of slow but once they find the groove it gets, how do they say? *f-u-n-k-y*See it through to the end.
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Essential Listening Vol 41
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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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ɹǝppn,p ɹo ʇɐp sıp
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Okay, I don't usually take part in theme days but this one's for Kate, one of my favorite moggettes.It doesn't get much funkier than the good Doctor -Dr. JohnDr. John, born Malcolm Rebennack (born November 21, 1940, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a colorful pianist, singer, and songwriter, whose music spans, and often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll. Professor Longhair was an i...
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