I have to admit that after Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds Dr. John wasn't quite doing it for me at first. I was also having trouble dealing with the crowdedness. I hung out just outside the room by the merch table where I could see and hear the band but it wasn't quite so crowded. Things took a turn with the "I Walk On Gilded Splinter" tease. I had already started making my way through the room shortly before that appeared. The rest of the show was great and I found a good spot on the other side of the stage with some dancing room.
It was good to see Shannon Powell behind the kit. I wanted to see Renard Poche, but it was a different guitar player. He was good, I'm just a big Renard fan.
Dr. John just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! I enjoyed reading the timeline
http://rockhall.com/inductees/dr-john/bio/
TIMELINE
November 21, 1941: Mac Rebennack, an esteemed musician better known as Dr. John, is born in New Orleans.
1957: Dr. John makes his first recordings for an instrumental album that is never released
1959: Dr. John releases his first single, “Storm Warning,” credited to Mac Rebennack (his birth name).
January 22, 1968: Dr. John’s first album, Gris-Gris, is released. Though it doesn’t make Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, it will sell steadily and become a cult classic.
June 20, 1970: “Wash, Mama, Wash,” by Dr. John bubbles under the Billboard singles chart. Though it misses the Hot 100, it is a high-charting regional hit in and around New Orleans.
August 31, 1971: The Sun, Moon & Herbs, the fourth in Dr. John’s voodoo-steeped series of albums (following Gris-Gris, Babylon and Remedies) is released.
April 15, 1972: “Iko, Iko,” by Dr. John, enters the Hot 100, marking his first appearance on the national chart. It is the first single from Gumbo, Dr. John’s groundbreaking tribute to New Orleans music.
February 25, 1973: In the Right Place, Dr. John’s sixth album – and the one that will make a household name of him – is released. It will peak at #24, his highest-charting album.
June 16, 1973: Triumvirate, an album of roots music by the trio of Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond Jr. and Dr. John, is released.
July 17, 1973: “Right Place, Wrong Time,” by Dr. John, reaches #9. His first (and only) Top Ten hit, it will spend a total of five months on the charts.
October 27, 1973: “Such a Night,” another hit from Dr. John’s In the Right Place album, just misses the Top Forty, reaching #42.
April 8, 1974: Desitively Bonnaroo, by Dr. John – his second collaboration with Allen Toussaint and the Meters – is released.
October 6, 1975: Dr. John releases Hollywood Be Thy Name, produced by Bob Ezrin.
1978: Dr. John releases City Lights, the first of several albums cut with producer Tommy LiPuma.
1981: Dr. John releases Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, the first-ever album on which he performs unaccompanied. The Brightest Smile in Town, a sequel in a similar vein, appears two years later.
May 27, 1989: In a Sentimental Mood, an album of standards by Dr. John, is released.
February 22, 1990: Dr. John wins a Grammy Award (his first) for “Makin’ Whoopee!,” a duet with Rickie Lee Jones, in the Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, category.
1992: Dr. John records Going Back to New Orleans in his hometown, surveying a century’s worth of New Orleans music. It will win a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.
March 29, 1994: Dr. John issues a new album (Television) and his autobiography (Under a Hoodoo Moon) simultaneously. Crescent City Gold, a collaboration between Allen Toussaint, Dr. John and other New Orleans legends, appears two weeks later.
August 11, 1998: Dr. John releases Anutha Zone, a return to the swamp-funk vibe of Gris-Gris.
October 9, 2001: Dr. John releases Creole Moon, an homage to the many musical strains – from Cajun to Creole, jazz to funk – that have flavored New Orleans music.
July 13, 2004: Dr. John’s N’Awlinz: Dis, Dat or D’Udda, an album recorded in New Orleans with some of its most esteemed musicians, is released on Blue Note Records.
June 3, 2008: Dr. John and the Lower 911 release City That Care Forgot, which will win a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
March 14, 2011: Dr. John is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 26th annual induction dinner in New York. John Legend is his presenter.
ESSENTIAL TRACKS
Right Place, Wrong Time
Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
Iko, Iko
I Walk on Gilded Splinters
Makin’ Whoopee! (with Rickie Lee Jones)
Such a Night
Wash Mama Wash
Junco Partner
Memories of Professor Longhair
What Comes Around (Goes Around)
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