Covered in a variegated spray of New Orleans Mardi Gras feathers and shiny voodoo baubles, ... more
Mac Rebennack's highly personal mythology was finally made real on this 1968 album. This was his first appearance made under the new guise of Dr John Creaux, The...
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Well by now I am guessing that you have figured out I am a bit of a Benefit addict! After being shown High Beam and Dandelion a year or so ago that was it I was hooked!
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Anyway back to Dr. John!
My skin has been funny for a while really dry and irritated ! I must have spent loads on face creams!
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Advantages: Very emotional writing Disadvantages: Quite slow paced
Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on.
John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not ...
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Personnel includes: Dr. John (vocals, piano, percussion); Harold Battiste (arranger). Originally released on Atco (33-234). Includes reissue liner notes by Richie Unterberger. New Orleans-born pianist Mac Rebennack had been making a living as a Los Angeles session musician for years before he adopted the persona of Dr. John, a name taken from a 19th-century witch doctor. Under that guise, he crafted a sound that mixed the old world of New Orleans (the tribal rhythms of the Mardi Gras Indians, second-line grooves, swamp blues) with the new musical world of 1968 (funk, R&B, rock, free jazz). The resulting gumbo bears a deep, dark, mysterious flavor full of voodoo mysticism and ancient rites. GRIS-GRIS would have made the perfect soundtrack for a horror movie set in New Orleans, as Dr. John's raspy murmur weaves a hypnotic spell atop a bed of exotic-sounding string instruments, ominous keyboards, primal percussion stomps, and spooky background vocal chants. Few could have predicted that this fearsome medicine man would eventually metamorphose into a charming, accessible rock star.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/14/99, p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...the New Orleans appropriation of California psychedelia, dressed up in Mardi Gras finery and spiced like a gut-busting gumbo....it's everything you want in voodoo music..." Alternative Press (12/00, p.106) - "This uniquely possessed album took psychedelia to an equatorially humid, sensual place it's rarely since visited..."
Titles on disc 1
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Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
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Danse Kalinda Ba Doom
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Mama Roux
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Danse Fambeaux
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Croker Courtbullion
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Jump Sturdy
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Walk On Gilded Splinters
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