 "Dr. John has been balancing cultural ambassadorship with jive-talking nightclub hustle for decades."
- The Rolling Stone, April 2012
"The mythical voodoo pianist-conjurer is so intertwined with the stories, secrets and rituals of New Orleans that to suggest he is anything but the embodiment of the bayou borders on heresy."
- LA Times, April 2012
"…a master at conjuring up that wild stew of jazz, blues, rock’n’roll, creole and voodoo rhythms that is a natural outcome of New Orleans’ louche and humid atmosphere."
- The Times (UK), April 2012
"For over four decades, Dr. John has served as ambassador of New Orleans music, introducing outsiders to everything from Basin Street blues to second-line rhythms and Mardi Gras anthems. His two-dozen-plus albums often resemble a musical museum, taking music born in dangerous places - from drunken bacchanals to the Storyville brothels where Jelly Roll Morton misspent his youth - and making it safe for polite society."
- John DeFore, Washington Post, April 2012
"Dr. John always sounds exactly like Dr. John: a singer with heart and swagger in his gravelly drawl and magic powers in his piano-thumping fingers…He slurs words with New Orleans insouciance, toys with the beat, injects just the right amount of ego and attitude, and proves that now, as always, he's the ruler of American roots music."
- Marc Silver, NPR, April 2012 |
