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Posts tagged: Dr. John
Locked Down (Dr. John)
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I have been reading about this album for a while now, so when I heard it was released I was really excited to pick it up on iTunes. Dr. John's album Gris-Gris is one of the first albums I...
#138 - Rejuvenation (The Meters)
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Oh yeah, this groovy album by The Meters makes me feel gooood. I'm just saying! I thought I knew The Meters from somewhere, but had no idea where. When I got their album into my iTunes I realized that one of their tunes, 'Liver Splash', was on Jack Johnson's Thicker Than Water soundtrack, and so I already knew The Meters! Incroiable!...
#143 - Gris-Gris (Dr. John)
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Released January 22, 1968"][/caption] Dr. John ("the Night Tripper", as he was also referred to) released Gris-Gris in 1968 and it was his debut album. It plays of the late 60s psychadelic-rock movement and also adds in some really obvious New Orleans jazz and blues rhythms, and focuses on many associations...