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Gris-Gris (CD)

By: Dr. John (Artist)

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Dr. John Artist Snapshot:

Cutting his teeth on New Orleans session work while still a teen in the 1950s, pianist and singer Dr. John (born Mac Rebennack) emerged in the late 1960s with GRIS-GRIS, a blend of snaky rhythms, Crescent City funk, and swampland voodoo flair. Since then, he has remained one of New Orleans's prime musical ambassadors, an artist with his own trademark sound and style.

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DISC 1 for Gris-Gris (CD) Album By Dr. John (Artist)
1   Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
2   Danse Kalina Ba Doom
3   Mama Roux
4   Danse Fambeaux
5   Croker Courtbullion
6   Jump Sturdy
7   I Walk On Guilded Splinters
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.128) - Ranked #143 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[A] swamp-funk classic. GRIS-GRIS blends New Orleans R&B, voodoo chants and chemical inspiration.'
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..."

Title Note

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.

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