Biography

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.

Top Tracks

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• A Little Closer To My Home

• Angola Anthem

• Bad Neighborhood

• Bald Headed

• Big Chief

• Big Gap

• Black Gold

• Black John The Conqueror

• Blue Skies

• Blues In The Night

• Careless Love

• Cissy Strut

• City Lights

• City That Care Forgot

• Creole Moon

• Dance The Night Away With You

• Dancing Jones

• Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

• Dog House Blues

• Fire On The Bayou

• Food For Thot

• Goin' Back To New Orleans

• Going Back

• Goodnight Irene

• Gris Gris Gumbo Yaya

• Gris-gris Gumbo Ya Ya

• Hey Pocky A-way

• Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure/don't You Just Know It/well I'

• I Got Lonesome-itis

• I Like Ki Yoka

• I Pulled The Cover Off You Two Lovers

• I Walk On Guilded Splinters

• I Wanna Rock

• Iko Iko

• I'm An Old Cow Hand

• I'm Gonna Go Fishin'

• In The Night

• It Don't Mean A Thing (if It Ain't Got That Swing)

• Junco Partner

• Junko Partner

• Just Kissed My Baby

• Key To The Highway

• Let The Good Times Roll

• Loop Garoo

• Makin' Whoopee!

• Mama Roux

• Manoovas

• Marie Laveau

• Medley: Rockin Pneumonia/high Blood Pressure/happy Times/don't You ...

• Meet De Boys On The Battlefront

• Moon River

• Morgus The Magnificent

• Mos' Scocious

• New Orleans

• Only In America

• Over You

• Promises, Promises

• Quatre Parishe

• Right Place Wrong Time

• Right Place, Wrong Time

• Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu

• Saddled The Cow

• Shango Tango

• Shoo Fly Marches On

• Snake Eyes

• Somebody Tryin' To Hoodoo Me

• St. James Infirmary

• Stagger Lee

• Storm Warning

• Such A Night

• Swanee River Boogie

• Sweet Home New Orleans

• Tell It Like It Is

• The Ear Is On Strike

• Tipitina

• Traveling Mood

• Traveling Moon

• Tribal

• Voices In My Head

• Waiting For A Train

• Wash, Mama, Wash

• What Comes Around (goes Around)

• When The Saints Go Marching In

• You Swore

• Your Average Kind Of Guy

• Zu Zu Mamou

• Zu Zu Man

Discography

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• Tribal

  429 Records

  2010

• City That Care Forgot

  429 Records

  2008

• Mercernary

  Blue Note

  2006

• Sippiana Hericane

  Blue Note

  2005

• N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or d'Udda

  Blue Note

  2004

• Creole Moon

  Blue Note

  2001

• Duke Elegant

  Blue Note

  2000

• Down on the Bayou

  Timeless

  1999

• Anutha Zone

  Virgin

  1998

• Trippin' Live

  Surefire Distribution / Wind-Up

  1997

• Afterglow

  GRP / Universal

  1995

• Television

  GRP

  1994

• Goin' Back to New Orleans

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• On a Mardi Gras Day

  Great Southern

  1990

• In a Sentimental Mood

  Warner Bros.

  1989

• Such a Night! Live in London

  1984

• The Brightest Smile in Town

  Clean Cuts Records

  1983

• Love Potion

  Accord

  1981

• Tango Palace

  Acadia

  1979

• City Lights

  Acadia

  1978

• Hollywood Be Thy Name

  Beat Goes On

  1975

• Mardi Gras

  Atlantic

  1975

• Desitively Bonnaroo

  Label M

  1974

• In the Right Place

  Atco

  1973

• Dr. John's Gumbo

  Atco

  1972

• The Sun, Moon & Herbs

  Wounded Bird Records

  1971

• Remedies

  Wounded Bird Records

  1970

• Babylon

  Wounded Bird Records

  1969

• Gris-Gris

  Collectors' Choice Music

  1968