[UPDATED] The Historic New Orleans Collection shared this amazing photo today of Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John, as a Mardi Gras page during a Carnival children’s ball in 1947. HNOC says Rebennack is second from the left in the photo, in the shorts. Born in November 1940, Rebennack would have been six and a half [...]
Tag Archives: Dr. John
Historic New Orleans Collection Finds Photo of Dr. John As 6-Year-Old Carnival Page
February 9, 2012 – 1:50 pm
James Booker, The Piano Prince of New Orleans (Black Sun Music)
January 1, 2012 – 12:57 am
reviewed together with James Booker’s Blues & Ragtime from New Orleans. There are around 15 James Booker albums on the market, but in fact the Piano Prince released only five LPs of music during his lifetime. Four of these five should be considered the very best of his work. The easy-to-find ones are New Orleans [...]
James Booker, Blues and Ragtime from New Orleans (Black Sun Music)
January 1, 2012 – 12:57 am
reviewed together with James Booker’s The Piano Prince of New Orleans. There are around 15 James Booker albums on the market, but in fact the Piano Prince released only five LPs of music during his lifetime. Four of these five should be considered the very best of his work. The easy-to-find ones are New Orleans [...]
How Coco Robicheaux Turned Up in Dr. John’s “Splinters”
November 27, 2011 – 8:39 am
In 2008, writer/musician Ned Sublette interviewed the late Coco Robicheaux for Bomb Magazine. In it, he speculates on how Dr. John came to sing Coco’s name in “I Walk on Guilded Splinters”: There’s a spot on “I Walk on Guilded Splinters,” the track that put Dr. John on the map in 1967, where you can [...]
YouTube du Jour: The Meters
November 1, 2011 – 11:29 am
One of the high points of this Meters reunion at Voodoo was the inclusion of Cyril. Here they are with Cyril in 1974 on a Dr. John special playing “Look-Ka Py Py” and “Jungle Man.”
Peter Novelli, Peter Novelli (Chalet Music)
November 1, 2011 – 12:52 am
How does a little-known if perfectly-capable blues guitarist get heavyweights Dr. John, Texas Tornado Augie Meyers, Baton Rouge blues great Raful Neal and ace drummer Big Johnny Thomassie—the latter two long deceased—to play on his debut album? The answer is a little tricky, but the liner notes explain. Neal and Thomassie’s tracks were cut an [...]
Obituary: Wardell Quezergue (1930-2011)
October 1, 2011 – 12:12 am
On the bright late summer morning of September 12 the crème fraiche façade of Corpus Christi-Epiphany Church gleamed optimistically amid this still-blighted Seventh Ward neighborhood along St. Bernard Avenue. Inside the packed church, many of the surviving players from the glory days of New Orleans R&B gathered to send off Wardell Quezergue, an arranger so [...]
YouTube du Jour: Wardell Quezergue
September 7, 2011 – 9:27 am
In 2007, the Arts Council of New Orleans honored Wardell Quezergue at its Community Arts Awards. Here is the tribute video that Robbie Denny and Donna Schlaudecker created in his honor, focusing on Quezergue’s “Creole Mass” project. Here’s a second video with Quezergue, this from a recording session for After the Math: The St. Agnes [...]
Bobby Charles, Bobby Charles (Rhino Handmade)
September 1, 2011 – 12:52 am
Bobby Charles’ 1972 self-titled album is his masterpiece, an album recorded in Woodstock, New York with members of The Band, Amos Garrett, Dr. John and David Sanborn backing him. The tracks have the loose grooves of The Band as they pull together country, rock and R&B, all of which suits the subtle wit and sly [...]
Bobby Charles Boxed by Rhino
July 7, 2011 – 9:54 am
The late Bobby Charles wrote and recorded a number of classic songs starting with “See You Later Alligator” and “Walking to New Orleans,” but only one classic album – 1971′s Bobby Charles, recorded in Woodstock, New York for Bearsville Records with a talent roster that includes Dr. John, pedal steel player Ben Keith, guitarist Amos [...]
