And with Dr. John’s death near New Orleans at age 77 on June 6th ... While working on the album, Dr. John came up with a plan for his live shows that would transport Mardi Gras to the stage.

Dr. John “created a unique blend of music which carried his home town, New Orleans, at its heart, as it was always in his heart,” she wrote. According to the Grammy website, Dr. John began his ...

The studio scene in New Orleans was beginning to dry up ... but it inaugurated several years of extroverted live shows that established Dr. John as a unique under-the-radar performer.

New Orleans musicians and hundreds of people paid tribute to the late Dr. John with a traditional “second line” parade through the Big Easy Friday. Fans first assembled outside the city’s ...

Dr. John would emerge on stage dressed in sparkling robes and shoot glitter out over the audience. A troupe of dancers performed to his band's music, which fused New Orleans rhythms with acid rock.

Much of Dr. John’s knowledge of such matters, it appears, was inspired from literary sources of highly dubious scholarly merit written by first-rate mythologizers of New Orleans history like ...

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