Live at Rockpalast 1999

Live at Rockpalast 1999

Stylish Lorelei – Rockpalast performance from 1999 by six-time Grammy Award winner Dr John – for fans of Neville Brothers, Willy DeVille, The Meters, Exuma, Van Morrison, Booker T Jones.

Dr. John, also known as “The Nighttripper,” is a musical high priest of voodoo rock. Born Malcolm “Mac” John Rebennack Jr. on November 20, 1941, in New Orleans (USA), he is a six-time Grammy Award winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

That’s enough by way of introduction; everything else is music history. It began in 1968 with the release of his first album, “Gris-Gris” (Atco Records), a sometimes eerie-sounding mixture of voodoo spells, rhythm and blues, and Creole soul music. With his colorful and picturesque stage performances, he stylized himself as Dr. John (Creaux) the Night Tripper, becoming an icon of psychedelic rock. Dr. John’s true love, however, was the blues influenced by his hometown of New Orleans. He collaborated with numerous blues musicians such as Charles Brown and roots rocker Willy DeVille, as well as jazz musicians such as Maria Muldaur and Bennie Wallace, and rock musicians such as Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. He appeared in Martin Scorsese’s film “The Last Waltz,” a film adaptation of Bob Dylan and The Band’s farewell concert, as well as in the film “Blues Brothers 2000.”

On July 9, 1999, Dr. John performed at the Loreley as part of a Rockpalast festival. He was accompanied by three outstanding session musicians: David Barard (bass), Bobby Broom, and Herman Ernest (drums). The set list included Dr. John classics such as “Iko, Iko,” “Right Place, Wrong Time,” and “I Walk On Guilded Splinters,” which became a global hit in 1969 in Marsha Hunt’s version and was later covered by Cher, Humble Pie, and the Neville Brothers, among others. This Rockpalast recording is a moving legacy of the extraordinary musician and human being Dr. John, who passed away in the summer of 2019 in his beloved hometown of New Orleans.