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Dr John

September 2022

  • New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2010 - Day 2<br>NEW ORLEANS - APRIL 24: Dr John performs with Davell Crawford in the Blues Tent on day two of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 24, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns)

    The music essay
    Gris-gris enigma: can a new posthumous release shed light on the elusive genius of Dr John?

    How did a middle-class white kid break into New Orleans’ feverish 1950s R&B scene and enjoy a wildly eclectic six-decade career? As a new release puts it: things happen that way

July 2019

  • Dr John performing in London in 2012.

    Letter: Dr John obituary

    Giles Oakley writes:

7 June 2019

  • ‘Authentically ominous and disturbing’ ... Dr John.

    Dr John: the voodoo-fuelled showman who beat his own path through rock

    The trailblazer who injected New Orleans R&B with sinister psychedelia will live on as an icon of curdled idealism
  • Dr John performing at the Primavera Sound festival, Barcelona, in 2014.

    Dr John obituary

    Pianist, singer and songwriter steeped in the musical forms and voodoo culture of his native New Orleans
  • FILE - In this July 6, 2004 file photo, the legendary American Jazz performer, Dr. John, performs on the Auditorium Stravinski stage, during the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland. The family of the Louisiana-born musician known as Dr. John says the celebrated singer and piano player who blended black and white musical influence with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, has died. He was 77. A family statement released by his publicist says Dr. John, who was born Mac Rebennack, died early Thursday of a heart attack. (Photo/Keystone/Sandro Campardo, File)

    Dr John, legendary genre-bending New Orleans musician, dies aged 77

    Family thanks ‘all who have shared his unique musical journey’ after Rock & Roll Hall of Famer suffers heart attack

September 2016

  • Eleanor Barooshian with Otis Redding, left, and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey pop festival in 1967

    Other lives
    Eleanor Barooshian obituary

    Other lives: Singer who duetted with Tiny Tim and sang backing vocals for Dr John

November 2013

  • Photo of James BOOKER

    Cocaine boogie: James Booker, the tragic piano genius of New Orleans

    Sean O'Hagan: He was a one-eyed, drug-addicted piano genius who wore a wig stuffed with marijuana and once held a gun to his head on stage – now a new film tells James Booker's extraordinary story

October 2012

  • BB King trailer

    BB King: The Life of Riley – film trailer

    Watch the trailer to the new documentary BB King: The Life of Riley, directed by Jon Brewer. The film tells the story of the life of the great bluesman and features contributions from, among others, Bono of U2, Dr John, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana

September 2012

  • david byrne roundhouse

    How Music Works by David Byrne – review

    The former Talking Head delivers a lucid exploration of all matters musical, from Pythagoras to the MP3, writes Mark Ellen

July 2012

  • SummerTyne Americana – review

    Cajun music and cooking come together in a soulful celebration of American roots music, writes Alfred Hickling
  • Caravan Palace perform at the Paleo Festival in Switzerland

    The week in music
    The week in music - in pictures

    From Lenny Kravitz to LMFAO, and Macy Gray to Morcheeba, here are some of this week's musical highlights

  • GZA

    This week's new live music
    This week's new live music

    Wu Legends | Dr John | Neneh Cherry & The Thing | Jazz At Cafe Society | John Surman | Götterdämmerung

June 2012

  • Some of our favourite albums …

    The best albums of 2012 (so far)

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Guitar Zero: can science turn a psychologist into Jimi Hendrix?

April 2012

  • dr john

    Dr John: Locked Down – review

    Dr John adds another feather to his cap, with a little help from Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, writes Kitty Empire

March 2012

  • Dr John

    Dr John: Locked Down – review

    The collaboration with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach is an inspired way to update Dr John's sound – and no one makes music like him, writes Dave Simpson

March 2011

  • Tom Waits and Neil Young

    Tom Waits inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    Singer with 'no hits' joins all-star cast including Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond and Dr John

December 2010

  • Tom Waits

    Tom Waits to enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    Singer named as one of the official 2011 inductees alongside Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr John and Darlene Love

June 2010

  • Dr John: Tribal

    Spooky swamp blues and strutting funk from the presiding spirit of New Orleans, writes Neil Spencer

April 2006

  • Dr John, Mercenary

    (Parlophone)

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