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Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, June 1972
WIPE YOUR MIND clean of all you have ever heard and read about Dr. John the Night Tripper. If you knew that once he was ...
Live Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, September 1997
COMPARED TO his tremendous gigs at Ronnie Scott's a year or two ago, when Dr John was accompanied by a horn section that included Alvin ...
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Interview by Charlie Gillett, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1971
From scuffling in the clubs and studios of late-'50s New Orleans, to his reinvention as Dr. John in mid-'60s L.A., Mac Rebennack tells the whole story - the gangsters, the drugs, the hard times and the high times. And, of course, the music, always the music.
File format: mp3; in 6 parts, total file sizes: 157.1mb, total interview length: 2h 51' 32" sound quality: ***
Dr. John with Jerry Wexler (1972)
Interview by Jerry Wexler, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1972
Kick back around the piano and let Dr. John and Jerry Wexler take you back to the R&B glory days of New Orleans: 'Fess, Guitar Slim and many more. (And be patient; Wexler becomes audible after a few minutes!)
File format: mp3; file size: 27.3mb; Interview length: 29' 50"; sound quality: ****
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Review by Miles, International Times, November 1968
THE ALBUM of huge underground word-of-mouth reputation in the States these days, an album far removed from the fashion changing ladder of the high chart ...
Dr. John, the Night Tripper: Steve Paul's Scene, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, July 1969
Dr. John Accents Drum's Rhythms. Afro-Cuban Music at Heart of Coast Musician's Songs ...
Dr. John From Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Interview by Danny Holloway, NME, April 1972
DR. JOHN'S contributions to pop music have been highly original and creative. Even if he claims that all the credit is due to the music ...
Dr John: The Mind And Music Of A Delta Voodoo Rocker
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, May 1972
ACCORDING to Dr. John almost everything started in New Orleans, from rock and rail to rhythm and blues to himself. ...
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, July 1972
GUMBO IS DR. JOHN'S fifth album, but it seems like his first. For once, the record and the recording both feel right, as though they ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, NME, March 1973
Out of the swamp, into the chart? ...
Retrospective and Interview by Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, June 1973
BY THE TIME you read this, Dr. John's 'Right Time, Wrong Place' will probably be in the American Top Ten. Which will be mighty gratifying ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, June 1973
PACK UP the voodoo, stash the gumbo, 'cuz Dr. John has gone legit. Used to be a time when he was Numero Uno Witch Doctor. ...
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, June 1973
MAC REBENNACK'S situation is Jekyll and Hyde reversed. Mac took something and turned into the Doctor, split from his identity as a New Orleans songwriter/session ...
The Dr. John Story part II: Los Angeles, The World
Retrospective and Interview by Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, July 1973
"It's O.K. Mac, you can come out now" ...
Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, July 1973
THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS ROCK 'N' ROLL ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, July 1973
COULD THAT possibly be Mac Rebennack peeping through the Dr. John persona? Just like, say, Sly Stone and Sylvester Stewart. ...
Report and Interview by Bruce Pollock, Sounds, October 1973
ON THE broadwalk at Asbury Park, New Jersey, you can hear the black waters of the Atlantic rippling against the rotted sides of the pier ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, NME, May 1974
Chance discovery yields delightful work ...
Dr John: Finally In The Right Place
Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1974
From Gris Gris to Gumbo to the Top of the Charts, with "goofer dust an' powders an' oils an' sachets an' lotions an' candles an' ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, November 1975
WHEN DR John was coming off heroin some time ago, it was suggested that a visit to a faith-healing meeting might help in the cure. ...
Dr. John: Cut Me While I'm Hot and Hollywood Be Thy Name
Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, November 1975
"DOCTOR JOHN THE Night Tripper, he's the King of New Orrlins". ...
The Meters and Dr John: Walking to New Orleans
Review by Don Snowden, Pasadena Guardian, December 1975
WHILE UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED as one of the birthplaces of jazz, New Orleans has never received its due as a rhythm and blues center in the ...
Dr John: Hollywood Be Thy Name (United Artists)
Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, December 1975
WHEN DOCTOR John failed to deliver a hit single (and album) to follow the success of 'In The Right Place' Atlantic promptly ditched him. That's ...
Bruce Springsteen & Dr. John: Fan Recalls First Close Encounter
Memoir by Don Snowden, Thunder, February 1978
WELL, IT WAS the summer of '74 and all in all life was reasonably comfortable but pretty boring. Home was the spacious second floor of ...
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, December 1978
DR JOHN is clean (and mean) and on the scene; so Hail on Mac 'cause it's a stone fact (y'all), the gritty gumbo hustler's back. ...
Ace Records: Dealing Aces Vols. 1 and 2
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, January 1979
THESE TWO volumes, together with the indispensable Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns collection in the same series (Ace CH 9) represent the first time ...
Dr. John: A Shot of Rhythm 'n' Snooze
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, March 1984
BACK IN New Orleans in the '50s, when he was one of the few white people involved in one of the last great watersheds in ...
Dr. John/The Meters: I Been Hoodood
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1984
THERE ARE GROOVES and there are grooves: that which is laid down by the Meters is definitely one of the latter. ...
Nights For Trippin' With Dr. John At The Lingerie
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, May 1985
DR. JOHN SHOULD feel right at home this weekend at the Lingerie in Hollywood. ...
Dr. John Comes Clean: Kicking Dope & Taking Names
Interview by John Sinclair, Offbeat, 1994
John Sinclair: First things first: everybody wants to know who did your hair for the record cover of Television? ...
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Jazziz, July 1994
MAC REBENNACK'S music continues a 40 year long mardi gras of the mind, a sound that never gets old, never gets tired. ...
Dr John: The Very Best Of (Rhino)
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, August 1995
IF THIS COMPILATION ULTIMATELY fails to live up to its title, it's at least partly due to the strain of trying to encapsulate a career ...
Doctor John: An Incantation to the Jollamallawalla Gods
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1995
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE MALCOLM Rebennack, trading under the sinisterly exotic stage name "Dr John The Night Tripper", descended the steps ...
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, September 1997
FUNK IS one of those words, like cool or hip, that is difficult to define. In music, it's an amorphous thing, an attitude, a looseness, ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 1997
Dr John: organic groover ...
The Return Of The Native: A Conversation With Dr John, The Night Tripper
Interview by Joss Hutton, Bucketful of Brains, 1998
NEW ORLEANS-bred musician Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr John, has seen a lot hair-curling sights during his forty year career on the fringes. ...
Dr John: Black Or White - Dr John's Shady Past
Interview by Bill Carpenter, Goldmine, April 1998
DR. JOHN is as much identified with New Orleans as gumbo is. In a May '97 interview with FI magazine, Dr. John, "Mac" to his ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, July 1998
MAC REBENNACK, IS SLUMPED ON A chaise longue in an elegant London hotel suite, the ubiquitous walking cane by his side, a straw Homburg tilted ...
The Doctor and the Duke: A Night with Mac Rebennack
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, July 1999
ON A WARM Saturday afternoon, in a studio just off 5th Avenue, in the downtown section of New York, Dr John is recording an album ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, January 2005
DR JOHN'S LONG journey to this concert hall has been faltering and nearly fatal. Born Mac Rebennack in New Orleans, he is as steeped in ...
Wade In The Water: Dr. John Weathers the Flood
Interview by John Sinclair, Honest Tune, 2006
THERE IS no native son of New Orleans more fiercely native than Mac Rebennack, known professionally now for almost 40 years as Dr. John. ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, April 2012
TO LIVE AND BREATHE in the sketchiest part of the Quarter...to hustle and flow, to let go... to get saved and find a funky kind ...
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