Dr. John – The Brightest Smile In Town (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:53 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Harmonic
The second of back-to-back solo albums cut in the early ’80s, 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.
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Dr. John – Plays Mac Rebennack (Expanded Edition) (1981/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:18 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sundazed Music
“With this solo piano performance, he romps, he stomps, he lays back, he makes the keys cry and he makes them jump for joy.” – Randy Lewis (Los Angeles Times) This expanded look at his landmark album features a bonus LP of tracks appearing on vinyl for the very first time. Three of the songs had yet to be released on any format!
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Dr. John – Dr. John: The Montreux Years (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:52 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
A collection of Dr. John’s finest Montreux Jazz Festival live performances! The audio has Expertly restored and remastered in superlative HD audio; The Montreux Years is released on superior audiophile heavy weight vinyl, MQA quality CD and in HD digital. The release includes brand new liner notes and rare photos from his Montreux shows.
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Dr. John – The Night Tripper (1977/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:00 minutes | 349 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crimson
Newly remastered! Dr. John – who, for over sixties years until his death at the age of seventy-seven on June 6th, 2019 pursued a career in music that was, at its core, all about bringing the music of New Orleans to the world at large. This collection (first released in 1977) brings together a number of recordings from the mid-’60s which find Dr. John honing the New Orleans style that he would perfect in the ‘70s on classics including ‘Such A Night’ and ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’.
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Dr. John – The ATCO Studio Albums Collection (1968-1974) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:20:20 minutes | 10,03 GB | Genre: R&B, Jazz, Blues, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
Dr. John is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Known throughout the world as the embodiment of New Orleans’ musical legacy, Dr. John is a true icon in American culture… New Orleans pianist and singer whose blend of snaky rhythms, Crescent City funk, and voodoo flair made him one of the city’s prime musical ambassadors. Enjoy now seven of his best albums remastered in High Definition!
Enjoy these seven studio albums by Dr. John, recorded for ATCO Records and available now in hi-res!
GRIS-gris (1968)
Babylon (1969)
Remedies (1970)
The Sun Moon & Herbs (1971)
Dr. John’s Gumbo (1972)
In the Right Place (1973)
Desitively Bonnaroo (1974)
Dr. John – Ske-Dat-De-Dat…The Spirit Of Satch (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:31 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Blues, R&B, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Music Group
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch is a 2014 album by American musician Dr. John. Produced by Dr. John and Sarah Morrow, it was released in August 2014. It features many guest musicians, such as The Blind Boys of Alabama and Bonnie Raitt.
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Dr. John – One Night Late (1977/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:52 minutes | 588 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Karate Records
Probably recorded a year or so before the sessions for his first major label debut as Dr. John on the 1967 ATCO LP, Gris Gris, “Shoo-Ra” is from sessions Mac Rebennack cut in Los Angeles, where he had gone to seek work as a musician, songwriter, and producer and to escape lingering legal problems back in New Orleans. As he relates in his autobiography, Under A Hoodoo Moon, a number of his sessions from that era, many of which where simple songwriting demos not intended for release, were later appropriated and sold to cash in on the success he had as Dr. John. An aggregation of hustling shysters, including Mac’s former manager in the 1960s, Charile Green, Charlies Underwood (engineer on some of the sessions), and Huey Meaux of (aptly named) Crazy Cajun Records, who Mac worked for off and on, were the perpetrators. Many of the tunes that just had Mac playing paino and singing were even overdubbed to add other musicians; and, in a few cases, instrumental tracks had a “sound-alike” singer added. P-i-t-i-f-u-l. The cobbled together, random results were released on various low-rent LPs over the years and are still coming out in CD versions. The unauthorized LP I picked up long ago, One Night Late, is just one example (I have several more – one of which strangely has some uncredited Ronnie Barron tracks on it, too). Green and Underwood share “producer” credit here; and most of the songs on the record are Rebennack/Jessie Hill collaborations, as the two friends were writing/publishing partners out in LA, CA in the pre-Dr. John days.
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Dr. John – Things Happen That Way (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:03 minutes | 426 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rounder
Over the course of his six-decade-long career, Dr. John embodied a near-mythic multitude of musical identities: global ambassador of New Orleans funk and jazz and R&B, visionary bluesman, rock and roll innovator, one-time top 10 hitmaker, self-anointed and massively revered high priest of psychedelic voodoo. On ‘Things Happen That Way’, the six-time Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer otherwise known as Malcolm John ‘Mac’ Rebennack Jr. reveals yet another dimension of his cosmically vast musicality: a lifelong affinity for classic country & western, whose songs he first encountered via the 78 rpm records frequently spun at his father’s electronics shop.
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Dr. John – The Brightest Smile In Town (1983) [DAD Reissue 1998]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:57 minutes | 1035 MB | Genre: Funk
DAD to Hi-Res FLAC – Source: Classic Records’ DAD 1017 | Artwork
Doctor John’s second solo piano album finds him combining country, blues, and New Orleans standards with originals, half of them instrumentals, and half of them containing vocals that sound like they were recorded off the piano microphone. This is not a high-tech recording, by any means, but in its unadorned way it does capture the flavor of Doctor John as directly as any record he’s made. (more…)
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