DR. JOHN Remedies RIGHT PLACE GRIS SUN & MOON SEALED 4 LP SET + BLUES FIX TEE
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Dr. John - REMEDIES - IN THE RIGHT PLACE - GRIS GRIS - THE SUN MOON & HERBS WITH GATEFOLD COVER
Factory Sealed ORIGINAL LABEL ATCO RECORDS RE-ISSUES vinyl pressing - the way music was meant to be heard. -
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Dr.John’s REMEDIES is a great example of his earlier recordings - very late sixties/seventies influences. The musicians are top notch. The sound quality on this particular reissue is excellent! While there are only six songs on this, please be aware that tracks 5 and 6 have a running time of more than 27 minutes. Track 6 titled “Anglo Anthem” is over 17 minutes long and it provides for a non stop musical journey. Various tempo changes - lots of percussion sounds and effects - interesting vocal arrangements and great bass and drum playing. All songs written by Dr. John.
Tracks include: 1. Loop Garoo 2. What Goes Around Comes Around 3. Wash, Mama, Wash
4. Chippy, Chippy 5. Mardi Gras Day 6. Angola Anthem
THE SUN MOON & HERBS - This classic recording sees Dr John's transformation into the persona of the Night Tripper fully complete. Richly textured and sumptuous, this is a LP that must be owned.
Opening with Black John The Conqueror, wait for the thrill as the gospel-like tones of the backing singers and stabs of the brass lay down the framework for this recording. Where Ya At Mule follows and is perhaps the only weak point. A little light. A touch too whimsical. Fear not, for Craney Crow takes us firmly back into Night Tripper territory with its fusion of jazz, psychedelia and pseudo-Southern black magic. We are then propelled into Familiar Reality, and for me, one of the best intros ever. Something to enjoy. Again and again.
File Gumbo seamlessly picks up where Familiar Reality left off, before we journey into the loose jazz of Who I Got To Fall On (If The Pot Get Heavy) only to be transported back into Night Tripper territory and the excellent Zu Zu Mamou ... Then, just as the party seems to be over and you're left wanting more, solace can be found in the form of Familiar Reality (Reprise).
A monumental recording, in the dark days of vinyl you had to hunt this one out. Nothing is lost, where small print addicts could read the guest list that reads like a celebrity call-out that includes Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger. Second, one no longer has the thrill of a Side One and Side Two and the excitement of turning the record over and wondering if the opening to Familiar Reality really is as good as the last time that you heard it.
IN THE RIGHT PLACE - Funk, in its purest form, is hard to come by these days. That's because we don't have the kind of wreckless visionaries that the 70s had, like Dr. John and George Clinton. These guys were so far gone into their music that they bordered on being parodies of themselves, and somehow that translated into the kind of raw and unprecedented energy that makes their music so saturated in what one would ideally define as 'funky'. Take Dr. John: the dude is basically the white George Clinton, with his crazy head dresses and honky tonk muppet voice. Put him in front of a piano, get the Meters to lay down the tightest funk grooves you've ever heard, and add producer Alain Toussaint's canjun roots and you've got an exceptionally enjoyable album in "In The Right Place". The music is uplifting and listenable; The Meters take the house down with some thick bass riffs, brilliantly arranged horns and tight-as-hell percussions. Dr. John wails like a drunken canjun cartoon character, which is such an endearing and appropriate compliment to this musical experience that you will not know how to listen to this kind of funk without a voice as original and funky as this.
While the entire album provides a consistent line-up of quality jams, the two stand-outs that have become two of Dr. John's greatest hits are "Right Place, Wrong Time" and "Such A Night". "Right Place, Wrong Time" would fill any dance floor with its danceability factor, while "Such A Night" is a kind of honky tonk interpretation of a faster-paced soul ballad, with great backing vocals and a nostalgic, Bugsy Malone-sounding keys section.
This album is a must-have for any self-respecting fan of the funk. Dr. John is a true pioneer in the genre and, while most of his work is worth owning, this is nonetheless one of his best albums to prove it.
11. Cold Cold Cold
GRIS GRIS - If the only Dr. John stuff you've heard is his more trad New Orleans stuff, you may be unprepared for this amazing debut. This album sounds like it was recorded from the deep of a voodoo night! Specifically,it conjures up a gris gris(voodoo) ritual put on record with great percussion, spooky music that goes from something unbelievably funky(Mama Roux) to something almost barouque(the second and fifth tracks for instance) rooted in a different, darker side of New Orleans than, let's say, Fats Domino or Allen Touissaint! Swampy is a good adjective to describe it-echoey and delirious are two others! Vocally the arrangements are amazing with Dr. John taking center stage around both men and women singers weaving great lines and sometimes making animal sounds! The character of Dr. John (a real gris gris doctor from the 1800's) as well as all things hoodoo are the basis for all the lyrics. The musicians are playing very free and at times "out" so it may be a little too weird for some ears. But if you have adventerous tastes, this album belongs in your collection because there is definitley no album like it. It is evocative, funky, DANGEROUS, and, best of all, musically brilliant. You won't be disappointed.
1. Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 2. Danse Kalinda Ba Doom 3. Mama Roux 4. Danse Fambeaux 5. Croker Courtbullion 6. Jump Sturdy 7. I Walk on Guilded SplintersFor additional Rare, Out of Print, Factory-Sealed Audiophile Recordings, visit Mymusicfix E-Bay Store by hitting http://stores.ebay.com/Mymusicfix.
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