something else

So maybe the last album I posted was a bit too intense to start with so I am sorry for hurting your heads. This one is much better; Dr. John’s debut album from 1968, Gris-Gris is a weird collection of voodoo, blues, psychedelia and creole. Unfortunately, his career went downhill from there into pretty ordinary blues in the 1980’s, but his early few albums were fantastic. I like that word, so I shall use it again: fantastic. 

I found this album with a friend in some horrible record store down the dirty end of Pitt Street, Sydney. It was a complete accident we bought it, we didn’t even listen to it before we did, but I do own some other Dr. John CD’s from the early 1970’s. This beats them all. If you’re going to listen to ONE thing I post then never come back because you hate me as I am a bastard and a horrible person who deserves to be taken into the yard and shot repeatedly in the back, then this is the one. Some of it is slightly frightening, but not in a Holy Modal Rounders kind of way

P.S. Listen to the album whilst medicated. YES.

1. Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
2. Danse Kalinda Ba Doom
3. Mama Roux
4. Danse Fambeaux
5. Croker Courtbullion
6. Jump Sturdy
7. I Walk On Guilded Splinters 

Listen: Danse Kalinda Ba Doom
Listen: I Walk On Guilded Splinters

Buy: Opens in iTunes