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When Dr. John's Gris-Gris hit the rock underground in 1968, it wasn't certain whether its master of ceremonies had landed from outer space, or just been dredged out of hibernation from the Louisiana swamps. The blend of druggy deep blues, incantational background vocals, exotic mandolin and banjo trills, ritualistic percussion, interjections of free jazz, and Dr. John's own seductive-yet-menacing growl was like a psychedelic voodoo ceremony invading your living room. You could be forgiven for suspecting it of having been surreptitiously recorded in some afterhours den of black magic, the perpetuators of this misdeed risking life-threatening curses for having exposed these secret soundtracks to the public at large. In fact Gris-Gris was recorded surreptitiously, but not in some New Orleans house of sin. It was laid down in the famed Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, where Phil Spector had cut many of his classics. It might have never come to pass at all had Dr. John and his co-conspirators not managed to wrangle some free studio time that had been originally earmarked for Sonny & Cher sessions. The resulting album nonetheless sounded as authentically New Orleans as a midnight Mardi Gras stroll though the French Quarter. Given the circumstances, that achievement was just as magical as anything the most powerful voodoo ritual could have wrought. Gris-Gris was the first record credited to Dr. John, and to most listeners he seemed to have dropped out of nowhere with his mystical R&B psychedelia and Mardi Gras Indian costumes. The album, however, was actually the culmination of about 15 years of professional experience, during which Dr. John -- born Mac Rebennack in New Orleans -- had absorbed the wealth of musical influences for which the Crescent City is famed. Gris-Gris 's roots reach back well beyond the dawn of the twentieth century, even as the album took in cutting-edge influences such as 1960s progressive jazz, and pushed into territory that no popular musician had ever explored in quite the same fashion. "Gris-Gris" itself is a New Orleans term for voodoo, and the name Dr. John taken from a New Orleans root doctor of the 1840s and 1850s. Also known as John Montaigne and Bayou John, he was busted in the 1840s for practicing voodoo with Pauline Rebennack, who may or may not have been a distant relative of our man Mac. One of Mac's grandfathers sang in a minstrel show, and the latter-day Dr. John adapted one of grandpa's favorite tunes, "Jump Sturdy," into the track on Gris-Gris of the same name. His onstage costumes and feathered headdresses, the source of shock and delight to audiences since the late 1960s, are similarly adapted from those worn by Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, famed for the infectious tribal percussive rhythms and chants they perform in local parades. By the mid-1950s Mac Rebennack, still in his mid-teens, was busy gigging around the New Orleans area, absorbing more contemporary influences from jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, and rock and roll. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the multi-instrumentalist participated in a myriad of New Orleans R&B and rock records as a session musician, songwriter, and producer. After battles with drug problems and the law, he moved to Los Angeles in 1965, joining an expatriate community of top New Orleans session dudes on the Hollywood studio circuit. Rebennack scrounged for survival by playing on L.A. pop and rock sessions, getting much of his work with the help of arranger (and fellow New Orleanian) Harold Battiste. Numerous recordings on which Rebennack played, sometimes as the featured artist, from the decade predating Gris-Gris have surfaced on compilations such as Medical School and Cut Me While I'm Hot . Though of historical interest, and sometimes of considerable musical worth, these enjoyable but journeyman R&B/rock sides gave little indication of the idiosyncratic genius unveiled on Gris-Gris . Ever since coming to L.A., Rebennack had hoped to make a concept album of sorts melding various strains of New Orleans music behind a frontman named Dr. John. Mac actually wanted New Orleans singer Ronnie Barron to be the Dr. John character, but when Barron was (fortunately) unavailable, Rebennack took on the Dr. John mantle himself. Harold Battiste, now a major Hollywood name as arranger for Sonny & Cher, got Dr. John some of the duo's studio time for free, and also helped get Mac a deal with Atlantic for an LP. Had Atlantic known what was up it probably would have pulled the plug on the project. However, the album was completed, with help from Battiste (who produced and played clarinet) and numerous side musicians. These included transplanted New Orleans veterans like Jessie Hill (renowned for "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"), Shirley Goodman (half of Shirley & Lee of "Let the Good Times Roll" fame), saxophonist Plas Johnson, and Richard "Didimus" Washington, a percussionist who was particularly skilled at devising Afro-Caribbean rhythms and textures. Two basses were used on some songs, which together with the army of percussionists (eight are credited) created an especially deep and thick rhythm section. The opening track's title, "Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya," was itself an indication of the record's homage to New Orleans eclecticism: the gris-gris voodoo, the gumbo (the regional stew made from numerous ingredients), and "Ya Ya," the title of one of the biggest hits to ever come out of the city (by Lee Dorsey). Rebennack wasted no time in assuming his new identity, immediately declaring "they call me Dr. John, known as the Night Tripper," his half-sung growl a white swamp counterpart to Howlin' Wolf. The snaky rhythms, soulful backup choruses, and ghostly echoing percussion set an eerie mood that if anything got spookier on "Danse Kalinda Ba Doom," its speaking-in-tongues ensemble vocals and middle eastern-by-way-of-New Orleans melodies establishing a quasi-religious ambience that permeated the record. "Mama Roux," by contrast, was deep-fried soul-funk, Gris-Gris 's hit single-that-never-was. It was back to the Bayou jungle, though, for "Danse Fambeaux," with its potion of Mardi Gras Indianesque chants, minstrel strings, impenetrable spell-casting lyrics, and mysterious melody. The album's mischievous musical chairs were never as entrancing as they were on "Croker Courtbullion," with snake-charming flute and chants, Addams Family-styled keyboards (by Dr. John, who played all the keys on Gris-Gris ), and free jazzy interplay revealing Rebennack's little-known admiration of musicians such as John Coltrane and Elvin Jones. As if these weren't enough, there were also birdcalls and animal noises that sound like nothing so much as a futuristic mating of Professor Longhair and Martin Denny. "Jump Sturdy" was a relatively brief, and quite infectious, marriage of vaudeville and funk. The closing eight-minute tour de force, "I Walk on Gilded Splinters," would prove the album's most durable song, a creepy voodoo soup that both smoldered with ominous foreboding and simmered with temptations of sensual delights. Atlantic executive Ahmet Ertegun was initially reluctant to release Gris-Gris , exclaiming, according to Dr. John's autobiography Under a Hoodoo Moon , "How can we market this boogaloo crap?" Luckily, he relented, inaugurating an erratic career that saw Dr. John grow into an institution as a walking encyclopedia of New Orleans music. For the most part, his subsequent recordings were far more grounded in blues and R&B, never matching the versatile adventurousness of his debut full-length. Hard to find in its original form as an Atco LP, and only sporadically reissued since, Collectors' Choice Music is proud to make this classic available on CD for the first time in the United States. -- Richie Unterberger. MQS Albums Download.

Mastering Quality Sound,Hi-Res Audio Download, 高解析音樂, 高音質の音楽. Dr. John – The ATCO Studio Albums Collection (1968-1974) [2014] [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/192kHz] Dr. John – The ATCO Studio Albums Collection (1968-1974) [2014] 7 Albums | FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 260:50 minutes | 10,6 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front covers | Genre: R&B, Soul. Dr. John is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Known throughout the world as the embodiment of New Orleans’ musical legacy, Dr. John is a true icon in American culture… New Orleans pianist and singer whose blend of snaky rhythms, Crescent City funk, and voodoo flair made him one of the city’s prime musical ambassadors. Enjoy now seven of his best albums remastered in High Definition! Enjoy these seven studio albums by Dr. John, recorded for ATCO Records and available now in hi-res! GRIS-gris (1968) Babylon (1969) Remedies (1970) The Sun Moon & Herbs (1971) Dr. John’s Gumbo (1972) In the Right Place (1973) Desitively Bonnaroo (1974) Dr. John – Gris-Gris (1968/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:27 minutes | 1,21 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Dr. John’s Gris-Gris is among the most enduring recordings of the psychedelic era; it sounds as mysterious and spooky in the 21st century as it did in 1968. It is the album where Mac Rebennack established a stage identity that has served him well. A respected studio ace in his native New Orleans, Rebennack was scuffling in L.A. Gris-Gris was his concept, an album that wove various threads of New Orleans music together behind the character of “Dr. John,” a real voodoo root doctor from the 19th century. Harold Batiste, another ex-pat New Orleanian and respected arranger in Hollywood, scored him some free studio time left over from a Sonny & Cher session. They assembled a crack band of NOLA exiles and session players including saxophonist Plas Johnson, singers Jessie Hill and Shirley Goodman, and guitarist/mandolinist Richard “Didimus” Washington. Almost everyone played percussion. Gris-Gris sounds like a post-midnight ceremony recorded in the bayou swamp instead of L.A.’s Gold Star Studio where Phil Spector cut hits. The atmosphere is thick, smoky, serpentine, foreboding. Rebennack inhabits his character fully, delivering Creole French and slang English effortlessly in the grain of his half-spoken, half-sung voice. He is high priest and trickster, capable of blessing, cursing, and conning. On the opening incantation “Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya,” Dr. John introduces himself as the “night tripper” and boasts of his medicinal abilities accompanied by wafting reverbed mandolins, hand drums, a bubbling bassline, blues harmonica, skeletal electric guitar, and a swaying backing chorus that blurs the line between gospel and soul. On “Danse Kalinda Boom,” a calliope-sounding organ, Middle Eastern flute, Spanish-tinged guitars, bells, claves, congas, and drums fuel a wordless chorus in four-part chant harmony as a drum orgy evokes ceremonial rites. The sound of NOLA R&B comes to the fore in the killer soul groove of the breezy “Mama Roux.” “Croker Courtboullion” is an exercise in vanguard jazz. Spectral voices, electric guitars, animal cries, flute, and moody saxophone solos and percussion drift in and out of the spacy mix. The set’s masterpiece is saved for last, the nearly nearly eight-minute trance vamp in “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” (covered by everyone from Humble Pie, Cher, and Johnny Jenkins to Paul Weller and Papa Mali). Dr. John is brazen about the power of his spells in a slippery, evil-sounding boast. Congas, tom-toms, snaky guitar, and harmonica underscore his juju, while a backing chorus affirms his power like mambo priestesses in unison. A ghostly baritone saxophone wafts through the turnarounds. Droning blues, steamy funk, and loopy R&B are inseparably entwined in its groove. Remarkably, though rightfully considered a psychedelic masterpiece, there is little rock music on Gris-Gris. Its real achievement — besides being a classic collection of startlingly deep tunes — is that it brought New Orleans’ cultural iconographies and musical traits to the attention of an emergent rock audience. Tracklist: 01 – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 02 – Danse Kalinda Ba Doom 03 – Mama Roux 04 – Danse Fambeaux 05 – Croker Courtbullion 06 – Jump Sturdy 07 – I Walk On Guilded Splinters. Dr. John – Babylon (1969/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:19 minutes | 1,34 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Dr. John’s ambition remained undiminished on his second solo album, Babylon, released shortly after the groundbreaking voodoo-psychedelia- New Orleans R&B fusion of his debut, Gris-Gris. The results, however, were not nearly as consistent or impressive. Coolly received by critics, the album nonetheless is deserving of attention, though it pales a bit in comparison with Gris-Gris. The production is sparser and more reliant on female backup vocals than his debut. Dr. John remains intent on fusing voodoo and R&B, but the mood is oddly bleak and despairing, in comparison with the wild Mardi Gras-gone-amok tone of his first LP. The hushed, damned atmosphere and after-hours R&B sound a bit like Van Morrison on a bummer trip at times, as peculiar as that might seem. “The Patriotic Flag-Waiver” (sic), in keeping with the mood of the late ’60s, damns social ills and hypocrisy of all sorts. An FM underground radio favorite at the time, its ambitious structure remains admirable, though its musical imperfections haven’t worn well. To a degree, you could say the same about the album as a whole. But it has enough of an eerie fascination to merit investigation. Tracklist: 01 – Babylon 02 – Glowin’ 03 – Black Widow Spider 04 – Barefoot Lady 05 – Twilight Zone 06 – The Patriotic Flag Waver 07 – The Lonesome Guitar Strangler. Dr. John – Remedies (1970/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:51 minutes | 1,81 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Remedies is not rock and roll, it is something nearly otherworldly, and almost beyond comprehension. While it includes such standout Dr. John tracks as “Wash Mama Wash” and “Loop Garoo,” it also includes “Angola Anthem,” which is murky, mysterious and downright evil-sounding. Much of this very long cut is lost without headphones, for the music floats about in a smoky fog while Dr. John and his backup singers chant, moan, and cry out. Progressive radio loved this stuff, and it still sounds great during those late-night flirtations with the dark side of the psyche. Remedies must be heard to be believed. Tracklist: 01 – Loop Garoo 02 – What Comes Around (Goes Around) 03 – Wash, Mama Wash 04 – Chippy, Chippy 05 – Mardi Gras Day 06 – Angola Anthem. Dr. John – The Sun Moon & Herbs (1971/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:05 minutes | 1,61 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Originally intended as a triple album, The Sun, Moon & Herbs was chopped up, whittled down and re-assembled into this single-disc release, and while Dr. John never liked this version much, perhaps the single disc is testament to the “less is more” theory. The seven cuts are all quite lengthy and the spells Dr. John and his consorts weave are dark and swampy. “Black John the Conqueror” comes from old Cajun folklore which the good Dr. has modernized and given a beat. The swampy “Craney Crow” is the younger sibling of his earlier “Walk On Guilded Splinters” and has a similar effect on the listener. “Pots on Fiyo (Fils Gumbo)” combines Latin American rhythms with lots of Cajun chants and spells. The vocals are nearly incomprehensible and actually serve as another instrument in the mix. “Zu Zu Mamou” is so thick that you can almost cut the music with a knife. Here, the atmosphere takes on a whole other meaning altogether. The Sun, Moon & Herbs is best listened to on a hot, muggy night with the sound of thunder rumbling off in the distance like jungle drums. Dr. John was definitely onto something here, but just what is left up to the listener. Tracklist: 01 – Black John The Conqueror 02 – Where Ya At Mule 03 – Craney Crow 04 – Familiar Reality-Opening 05 – Pots on Fiyo (File Gumbo)/Who I Got To Fall On (If The Pot Get Heavy) 06 – Zu Zu Mamou 07 – Familiar Reality-Reprise. Dr. John – Dr. John’s Gumbo (1972/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:36 minutes | 1,68 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Dr. John’s Gumbo bridged the gap between post-hippie rock and early rock & roll, blues, and R&B, offering a selection of classic New Orleans R&B, including “Tipitina” and “Junko Partner,” updated with a gritty, funky beat. There aren’t as many psychedelic flourishes as there were on his first two albums, but the ones that are present enhance his sweeping vision of American roots music. And that sly fusion of styles makes Dr. John’s Gumbo one of Dr. John’s finest albums. Tracklist: 01 – Iko Iko 02 – Blow Wind Blow 03 – Big Chief 04 – Somebody Changed The Lock 05 – Mess Around 06 – Let The Good Times Roll 07 – Junko Partner 08 – Stack-A-Lee 09 – Tipitina 10 – Those Lonely Nights 11 – Huey Smith Medley 12 – Little Liza Jane. Dr. John – In The Right Place (1973/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:40 minutes | 1,4 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. Dr. John finally struck paydirt here and was certainly In the Right Place. With the hit single “Right Place Wrong Time” bounding up the charts, this fine collection saw many unaware listeners being initiated into New Orleans-style rock. Also including Allen Toussaint’s “Life,” and a funky little number entitled “Traveling Mood,” which shows off the good doctor’s fine piano styling, and with able help from the Meters as backup group, In the Right Place is still a fine collection to own. Tracklist: 01 – Right Place Wrong Time 02 – Same Old Same Old 03 – Just The Same 04 – Qualified 05 – Traveling Mood 06 – Peace Brother Peace 07 – Life 08 – Such A Night 09 – Shoo Fly Marches On 10 – I Been Hoodood 11 – Cold Cold Cold. Dr. John – Desitively Bonnaroo (1974/2014) FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:52 minutes | 1,55 GB Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover. When you latch onto a hit formula, don’t mess with it, and that is just what the doctor ordered with Desitively Bonnaroo. With installment number three of Dr. John’s funky New Orleans-styled rock & roll, trying to strike gold again proved elusive. There wasn’t the big hit single this time around to help boost sales, and the tunes were starting to sound a little too familiar. While not a carbon copy of his previous releases, Desitively Bonnaroo was a disappointment to his fans. Good as it was, it was the end of an era for Dr. John and his type of music. Tracklist: 01 – Quitters Never Win 02 – Stealin’ 03 – What Comes Around (Goes Around) 04 – Me Minus You Equals Loneliness 05 – Mos’ Scocious 06 – (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away 07 – Let’s Make A Better World 08 – R U 4 Real 09 – Sing Along Song 10 – Can’t Git Enuff 11 – Go Tell The People 12 – Desitively Bonnaroo. Gris Gris. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at $9.99. Copy the following link to share it. You are currently listening to samples. Listen to over 70 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan. Listen to this album and more than 70 million songs with your unlimited streaming plans. 1 month free, then $14.99/ month. Dr. John Creaux, Composer - Dr. John, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Harold Battiste, Producer, Arranger. 1968 Elektra Records 1968 Atco Records. 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About the album. 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s) Total length: 00:33:27. 1968 Elektra Records 1968 Elektra Records. Marketed By Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. All Rights Reserved. Why buy on Qobuz. Stream or download your music. Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions. Zero DRM. The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like. Choose the format best suited for you. Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF. ) depending on your needs. Listen to your purchases on our apps. Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go. Chopin : Piano Concertos. Walking By the River. In The Right Place. Playlists. Back of My Mind. 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