Dr. John has always been a superior songwriter. A master conceptualist, he envisions lyrics and music as part of an overall vision. He is one of the very few denizens of the fertile New Orleans R&B scene of the 1950s to translate the miniaturist art of the three-minute hit into the longplayer ethos of funk [...]
Tag Archives: Mac Rebennack
J&M Studio: House of Rock
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
A young Mac Rebennack, still in short trousers, was tagging along with his father who was visiting his friend, studio owner and engineer Cosimo Matassa in his tiny back room recording studio at the edge of the French Quarter. “I can tell you every musician [that] was there” recalls Rebennack—now Dr. John—over 50 years from [...]
Mac’s Wild Years
May 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
Mac Rebennack was born in 1941. Dr. John was born in 1967. What happened in between would color his whole musical career. “In New Orleans, everything—food, music, religion, even the way people talk and act—has deep, deep roots; and, like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, [...]
Dr. John: New Orleans’ Favorite Physician
April 1, 1989 – 12:01 am
If you haven’t been able to locate the elusive “Dr. Feel Good,” look no further. When you hear the pounding, driving, thumping, gutsy sounds erupting from the keyboard with New Orleans’ native son Dr. John at the helm, you know you’ve discovered the good doctor’s whereabouts and are experiencing the essence of New Orleans’ “magical [...]
