Malcolm John Rebennack a.k.a. Dr John

[johncorrigan]

Sad to see the passing of the great New Orleans voodoo man, Dr John at 77. Great tunes and rasping voice but New Orleans through and through.

Here he is in 'The Last Waltz' with The Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRrXZP8b0I

[Serial_Apologist]

Sad to see the passing of the great New Orleans voodoo man, Dr John at 77. Great tunes and rasping voice but New Orleans through and through.

Here he is in 'The Last Waltz' with The Band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRrXZP8b0I

Great boogie woogie player, introducing some of us to the Spanish-influenced rhythms and metres that came into the music before the railroad shuffle more-or-less usurped the genre in the 1930s. Gosh - he was only 3 years older than myself: I thought he'd been around forever!

[Padraig]

Great boogie woogie player, introducing some of us to the Spanish-influenced rhythms and metres that came into the music before the railroad shuffle more-or-less usurped the genre in the 1930s. Gosh - he was only 3 years older than myself: I thought he'd been around forever!

What Jelly Roll Morton called 'the Spanish Tinge'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGjDbKauVo

Great number John. I recorded The Last Waltz at the time - full of great numbers.

[johncorrigan]

Apparently the good Doctor once played a gig in Blairgowrie...before I came to these parts; but the Bard o' Dundee, Michael Marra, wrote a song about it called 'Mac Rebennack's Visit to Blairgowrie'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLQU04KVmk

[eighthobstruction]

....A favourite piece of vinyl in days of yore.... r.i.p.

[zola]

Saw him at Tipitina's in New Orleans in 1981 with the Neville Brothers ( not Gary and Phil ) Goin' Back To New Orleans my favourite CD ( I never did ! )

[Padraig]

Goin' Back To New Orleans my favourite CD ( I never did ! )

They came out for him! A little of the Second Line send-off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbzmnuI7Sk