The Essentials: Dr. John

by Dr. John

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1.	Right Place Wrong Time 02:55	buy track
2.	Such a Night 02:58	buy track
3.	Iko Iko 04:09	buy track
4.	Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya 05:37	buy track
5.	Makin' Whoopee! (with Rickie Lee Jones) 04:10	buy track
6.	Mama Roux 03:00	buy track
7.	Tipitina 02:09	buy track
8.	I Walk on Guilded Splinters 07:46	buy track
9.	Accentuate the Positive 03:52	buy track
10.	Revolution 03:26	buy track
11.	Goin' Back To New Orleans 04:10	buy track
12.	(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away 02:43	buy track
13.	Wash, Mama, Wash 03:42	buy track
14.	Mos' Scocious 02:48	buy track
15.	Loop Garoo 04:42	buy track

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The man who's been known variously as Dr. John, Mac Rebennack, and The Night Tripper has inhabited an even greater variety of musical guises in his long career. For a single-album anthology, The Essentials does a great job of encompassing them. You get Dr. John the second-line Mardi Gras parade master on "Iko Iko" and "Tipitina," the salacious funkmeister on the indelible '70s smash "Right Place, Wrong Time," and the lovable duet partner of Rickie Lee Jones on the pair's GRAMMY®-winning version of "Makin' Whoopee." And that's just for starters. Even though The Essentials is just a dozen tracks long, numerous other identities reveal themselves before it's all over. Dr. John the mellow jazz piano stylist pops up on an urbane interpretation of Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood," and Mac the melancholy blues balladeer appears for a jazz-flecked take on the Ray Charles hit "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'." By the time the album closes with a funky, mostly instrumental version of Cole Porter's "Love for Sale," we've gotten a pretty good look at this musical maverick's many faces.

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released September 25, 2007

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