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Dr. John's Gumbo | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dr. John
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $9.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 5313
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 7006
UPC: 075678039829
EAN: 0075678039829
ASIN: B000002I6P
Release Date: June 28, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Iko Iko | | • | Blow Wind Blow | | • | Big Chief | | • | Somebody Changed The Lock | | • | Mess Around | | • | Let The Good Times Roll | | • | Junko Partner | | • | Stack-A-Lee | | • | Tipitina | | • | Those Lonely Lonely Nights | | • | Huey Smith Medley: High Blood Pressure/Don't You Just Know It/Well I'll Be John Brown | | • | Little Liza Jane |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
After the studio bloat of 1971's The Sun, Moon & Herbs, Gumbo is a tightly focused return to Rebennack's musical roots. His band is full of Louisiana legends (Harold Battiste, Lee Allen) plus lesser known but equally important 'Nawlins heroes: Ronnie Barron, Alvin Robinson, and a wonderful trombonist known simply as Streamline. Together, they rage through a dozen New Orleans classics, not only the work of Professor Longhair and Huey Smith, but also Earl King and Ray Charles, who lived in the Crescent City while leading the house band at the Dew Drop Inn. Many of these songs are closely associated with the '50s, but Gumbo never sounds forced or nostalgic; it's great work from start to finish. --Keith Moerer
Amazon.com
After earning a name for himself as a high priest of psychedelic voodoo, the man baptized Mac Rebennack returned to his New Orleans roots with this 1972 concoction. Gathering tunes and players he'd encountered in his many years as a Crescent City session pro, Dr. John assembled a loving tribute to the city and the sounds he loved. Tunes such as "Iko Iko," Big Chief," and "Junko Partner" have become roots-music standards over the last quarter century in significant part due to this venerable valentine to the long-lost likes of Sugar Boy & the Cane Cutters, the Spiders, Paul Gayten, and Huey Smith. --Steve Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Six Stars February 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this album. The songs, the piano, the vocal, the band, uh is there anything else? This is all day music. I say it is his best and one of the best from the 70's.It's got soul and funk and it's real. Nuff said yall.
 Good Dr John August 2, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good CD. It has essentially none of the voodoo sound sometimes associated with Dr John. I love it for its honest New Orleans sound. The version of 'Let the Good Times Roll' is one of his best. Not a bad cut among them all.
Essential Dr. John, essential New Orleans December 23, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There isn't a bad track. Hell, there isn't a bad note. Dr. John covers icons such as Professor Longhair and Huey Smith to plug us into the funk, the stride piano, the gutter humor and alien dialect of New Orleans, which, amazingly enough, is part of America. It's hard to pick just one, but 'Big Chief' starts with an organ riff like a circus calliope, then a thudding drum and bass, then Dr. John's ripsaw voice, then, a little later, a crazy female choir. Should've been a hit.
spicy gumbo February 1, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
here's the doctor's gumbo, a spicy dish of new orleans favourites. if you like good time music this one for you, but those gourmet lookin fo gris gris voodoo music should look elsewhere, no traces here of the fantastic cacophony that the doctor revealed in his first 3-4 records.
A Great Desert Island Disc June 10, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not only is it a classic and timeless...it is real happy and upbeat and can get you out of any gloom..The New Orleans feel is only part of the story, Dr. John must have influenced The Clash when they were doing London Calling..Stagger Lee, Junko Partner etc...are all on this CD..you can not go wrong if you like King Oliver,Professor Longhair,Jelly Roll Morton etc....take a chance on a classic from close to 35 years ago...
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