Dr John - Dr John Plays Mac Rebennack: Legendary Sessions 2
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Artist: Dr JohnEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Clean Cuts
Soundtracks:
- Saddled The Cow
- Boxcar Boogie
- The Brightest Smile In Town
- Waiting For A Train
- Monkey Puzzle
- Touro Infirmary
- Medley: Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Didn't He Ramble
- Your Average Kind Of Guy
- Pretty Libby
- Marie La Veau
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Suite Home New Orleans
- Key To The Highway
- Mississippi Mud
- Lowdown Worried And Blue
- Sippiana Midnight
- Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu
- Yesterdays
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Music Review: Rythm and Blues Master
Rating: 5 Stars
Somewhere in the mid-eighties Dr John released plays Mac Rebennack. Where a lot of the good doctor's studio work was at times plagued by mediocrity that release was suddenly a more than solid effort. Mac Rebennack is of course the Night Tripper himself, doctor John was suddenly playing out of his "own" songbook, although a lot of the compositions here are actually originated from some one else's pen. Plays Mac Rebennack gives you the good Doctor at his most pure, just the man and his rolling and funky piano, his rough and gruff voice and a great assortment of songs and instrumentals. The original release focussed on instrumental work, the vol. 2 companion of the re-release with outtakes from the original sessions focuses more on vocal outings of Dr. John from that time.
Plays Mac Rebennack was a highly intimate late night album; the outtake sessions featured here in vol. 2 are much in the same vein. This is not a bad thing at all, listening to this album one can only conclude that the Doctor is much more powerful and compelling when playing all by his lonesome. The album features a lot of different shades, from uninhibited joy to dark melancholy. With tracks like Marie La Veau some of the Night Trippers mystic creep into this album, Boxcar Boogie is a bar room brawl, Touro Infirmary is a strong adaptation of the familiar st. James, Come Rain or Shine is spine chilling.
Every single selection here is played in the Doctor's signature style, highly indebted to Professor Longhair yet very recognisable as Mac Rebennack. Doctor John has long been one of the most eccentric individuals in Rhythm and Blues; Plays Mac Rebennack shows us he's a master. There's not a note to many, during the record he plays his strengths en weaknesses very well. This release and the re-release of the original album were long overdue.
Description of Dr John Plays Mac Rebennack: Legendary Sessions 2
This is volume two of the solo piano recordings by the great Dr. John. A much expanded release of the album originally released back in 1979 under the title The Brightest Smile In Town. Contains some previously un-issed songs. Acadia. 2006.The second of back-to-back solo albums cut in the early '80s, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions Volume Two (originally released as The Brightest Smile in Town) presents a more balanced mix of vocal and instrumental tracks than its predecessor, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack. While it's fun to hear the great New Orleans pianist romp through "Box Car Boogie" and patiently work his way through the twilight blues of "Pretty Libby," the unexpected treats are the best: a heartsick version of Jimmy Rodgers's "Waiting for a Train;" a Doc Pomus cover, "Average Kind of Guy," that sounds like Randy Newman on a particularly good day; and "Marie La Veau," a highly syncopated bow to one of the Crescent City's many voodoo queens. By the time Rebennack ends Brightest Smile with two gorgeous instrumentals--a lovely take on Harold Arlen's "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Suite Home New Orleans"--you're reminded just how encyclopedic his knowledge of American music is. (The 2006 reissue adds six previously unreleased bonus tracks.) --Keith Moerer
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