Dr. John, The Night Tripper - Gris-Gris flac album

John, The Night Tripper ‎– Gris-Gris. Label: Rhino Records (2) ‎– 8122797161, ATCO Records ‎– SD 33-234. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 gm. Country: Europe. Rhino 180gm re-issue with green custom sticker on front featuring "The debut album from Dr. John, The Night Tripper. Rear of sleeve states "Manufactured In The .

John – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya (The Atco/Atlanti. :36. Dr. John The Night Tripper – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya (1968). John The Night Tripper – I Walk On Guilded Splinters (1968). John The Night Tripper – 07 - I Walk On Guilded Splinters - 1968 . :38. John, The Night Tripper – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya. 7:38. John – I Walk on Guilded Splintеrs. John, The Night Tripper – Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya. 3:39. John & Night Tripper – I Walk On Guilded Splinters (ATCO 68) . :59. JOHN, The NIGHT TRIPPER - Gris-Gris (1968) – 05. Croker Courtbullion. John & Night Tripper – Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya (ATCO 68) . :21. JOHN, The NIGHT TRIPPER - Gris-Gris (1968) – 06. Jump Sturdy. JOHN - Gris-Gris (1968) – 03. Mama Roux. John The Night Tripper – 03 - Mama Roux - 1968 - Gris-gris.

Personnel: - Dr. John - keyboards, guitar, percussion, vocals - Harold Battiste - arranger, producer, bass, clarinet, percussion - Richard 'Didimus' Washington - guitar, mandolin, percussion - Plas Johnson - saxophone - Lonnie Boulden - flute - Steve Mann - guitar, banjo - Ernest McLean - guitar, mandolin - Bob Frasier, Bob West - bass - Mo Pedido - congas - John Boudreaux - drums - Dave Dixon, Jesse Hill, Ronnie Barron - backing vocals, percussion - Joni Jonz, Prince Ella Johnson, Shirley Goodman, Sonny Ray.

It is the album where Mac Rebennack established a stage identity that has served him well. A respected studio ace in his native New Orleans, Rebennack was scuffling in . Gris-Gris was his concept, an album that wove various threads of New Orleans music together behind the character of "Dr. John," a real voodoo root doctor from the 19th century. Almost everyone played percussion. Gris-Gris sounds like a post-midnight ceremony recorded in the bayou swamp instead of . s Gold Star Studio where Phil Spector cut hits. The atmosphere is thick, smoky, serpentine, foreboding. Rebennack inhabits his character fully, delivering Creole French and slang English effortlessly in the grain of his half-spoken, half-sung voice.

Gris-Gris, by Dr. John. Towards the end of 1965, after their meteoric rise to the top of the charts with I Got You Babe, Sonny and Cher were invited to perform at a private party in the penthouse apartment of mining tycoon Charles Engelhard Jr. at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The invitation came after Jackie Kennedy, a guest of the intimate party and on one of her first social outings following the tragic death of her late husband, expressed her wish to see the rising duo perform in the flesh at the event.

Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya. 05:35.

The gris-gris of the title is a small cloth bag of African origin that wards off evil spirits. For Rebennack, it was the start of a totally new career. Dr John would enter popular culture as the inspiration for a Muppet (Dr Teeth) and can be heard most mornings singing the theme tune of Curious George on Disney Junior. But Creaux was a far from child-friendly proposition in 1967 as he and his backing singers itemised the remedies in his little satchel