Desitively Bonnaroo (Remastered) Dr. John

• 1 Quitters Never Win 03:15
• 2 Stealin' 03:29
• 3 What Comes Around (Goes Around) (2) 03:10
• 4 Me Minus You Equals Loneliness 03:03
• 5 Mos' Scocious 02:46
• 6 [Everybody Wanna Get Rich] Rite Away 02:42
• 7 Let's Make A Better World 02:55
• 8 R U 4 Real 04:14
• 9 Sing Along Song 02:41
• 10 Can't Git Enuff 02:59
• 11 Go Tell The People 03:03
• 12 Desitively Bonnaroo 02:29
• Total Runtime 36:46

Info for Desitively Bonnaroo (Remastered)

One of the Night Tripper's great Seventies albums. Features legendary New Orleans funksters The Meters as his backing band. Produced by Allen Toussaint.

Mac Rebennack - a musician better known by a moniker which paints him as one of the funkiest physicians in New Orleans - released an album which has gained considerable notoriety beyond the contents of its grooves due to its title inspiring the name of an annual music festival.

Released in 1974, Desitively Bonnaroo was an album which hewed very close in both style and substance to its predecessor, 1973's In the Right Place, which is hardly surprising when one considers that In the Right Place remains to this day Dr. John's most successful album on the Billboard Top 200, hitting #24. Unfortunately, lightning didn't exactly strike twice, or at least not in the exact same location: Desitively Bonnaroo still charted, but despite featuring arrangements and accompaniment from Allen Toussaint and quite a lot of contributions from The Meters, it only made it to #105, and the closest it came to earning a hit single was “(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away,” which limped into the Hot 100 but never made it out of the 90s.

In fairness, one might argue that it's impressive enough that the mainstream audience embraced Dr. John the first time, so it was always relatively unlikely that they'd be primed and waiting for a second round with the same level of enthusiasm. That said, however, the fact that Dr. John still has a substantial fanbase four decades later is a testament to the level of devotion his music has inspired over the years.

„When you latch onto a hit formula, don't mess with it, and that is just what the doctor ordered with Desitively Bonnaroo. With installment number three of Dr. John's funky New Orleans-styled rock & roll, trying to strike gold again proved elusive. There wasn't the big hit single this time around to help boost sales, and the tunes were starting to sound a little too familiar. While not a carbon copy of his previous releases, Desitively Bonnaroo was a disappointment to his fans. Good as it was, it was the end of an era for Dr. John and his type of music.“ (James Chrispell, AMG)

Dr. John, guitar, piano, sound effects, vocals
Allen Toussaint, keyboards, percussion, arrangements, background vocals
Leo Nocentelli, guitar
Art Neville, keyboards, organ
George Porter Jr., bass
Joseph "Ziggy" Modeliste, drums
Gary Brown, alto, soprano & tenor saxophone
Mark Colby, clarinet, tenor saxophone
Whit Sidener, baritone & alto saxophone
Peter Graves, trombone
Kenneth Faulk, trumpet, flugelhorn
Robbie Montgomery, background vocals
Jessica Smith, background vocals

Recorded 1974 atCriteria Recording Studios, Miami; Sea-Saint Recording, New Orleans
Produced by Allen Toussaint

Digitally remastered

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