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News: Music Industry

Dr John's New Orleans

Dr John's New Orleans

He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He's Mad. Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, carries the city's lore in his fingers, his scratchy voice and his memory. He has lived in New York City and on Long Island since the 1980s, but when he revisits his ...

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News: Recording

Dr. John Offers Love Letter to Post-Hurricane New Orleans

Dr. John Offers Love Letter to Post-Hurricane New Orleans

Iconic American musician and unofficial ambassador to New Orleans, the legendary Dr. John (aka Mac Rebennack, Jr.) has signed a multi-record agreement with the Savoy Label Group's 429 Records which will release “City That Care Forgot" on June 3rd. With the help of guests such as Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ani Di Franco and Terence Blanchard, ...

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Mercernary

By Dr. John

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Blues In The Night; You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby; Personally; Hit The Road To Dreamland; I

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Right Place, Right Time

By Dr. John

Label: Skinji Brim/Hyena
Released: 2006
Track listing: Junco Partner; Renegade; I Walk on Guilded Splinters; Traveling Mood; Black Widow; Let the Good Times Roll; Kinfolks; Don

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Right Place Right Time: Live at Tipitina

By Dr. John

Label: Skinji Brim/Hyena
Released: 2006
Track listing: Junco Partner; Renegade; Walk On The Guilded Splinters; Travellin' Mood; Black Widow; Let The Good Times Roll; Kinfolks; Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'; Wang Dang Doodle; Such A Night.

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Song of the Day

Travelin' Mood

Album: Right Place, Right Time - Live at Tipitina's Mardi Gras '89
By Dr. John
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 0
Duration: 5:32

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Article: Album Review

Dr. John: Mercernary

Read "Mercernary" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

On Mercernary the good doctor, Mac Rebennack, performs a Voodoo mass on the music of Johnny Mercer, casting it in the gris-gris patois of his native New Orleans. This union of standards and Creole is a contentious one, showing that one cannot force a square peg into a round hole. “Blues in the Night, “I'm an ...

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Article: Album Review

Dr. John: Right Place, Right Time

Read "Right Place, Right Time" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

This 1989 performance at Tipitina's features Dr. John with his band playing a program of comfortable New Orleans favorites. Blues, gospel, voodoo and jazz merge evenly on this Mardi Gras concert, which feels like an all-night celebration. With “I Walk on Guilded Splinters, Dr. John sings about the prescription that he can provide for ...


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