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- Beginning in the late 1960s, Rebennack gained fame as a solo artist after adopting the persona of "Dr. John, The Night Tripper". Dr. John's act combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues with psychedelic rock and elaborate stage shows that bordered on voodoo religious ceremonies, including elaborate costumes and headdress.
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Jul 24, 2019 · Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.
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According to AllMusic, Dr. John "first became a star by taking the sounds and traditions of New Orleans blues, jazz, and R&B and twisting them into new forms". [1] Billboard described him as a soul, funk and boogie-woogie musician who "became a New Orleans musical icon not as a pop star of the present, but as a channeler of those who came before."
Jun 10, 2019 · His own innovations of incorporating psychedelia and slick funk into New Orleans music became part of the Big Easy tradition, which eventually gave him the air of an elder statesman—an ...
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Mar 11, 2011 · Dr. John would emerge on stage dressed in sparkling robes and shoot glitter out over the audience. A troupe of dancers performed to his band's music, which fused New Orleans rhythms with...
Jun 7, 2019 · Just take the opening moments of his first solo record, which came out in 1968. First, a miasmatic swamp-guitar lick. Then the man himself, half singing, half talking huskily: “They call...
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Jun 6, 2019 · Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., known around the world as Dr. John, initially aspired to be a professional songwriter, producer and sideman, like the utilitarian New Orleans musicians who forged his...
Jun 7, 2019 · In 1959 the magazine insert that the daily New Orleans Times-Picayune devoted to entertainment and other light fare ran a feature on 17-year-old Malcolm J. “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., “A Boy With...
