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N'Awlinz: Dis Dat or d'Udda | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dr. John
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 30842
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 78602
UPC: 724357860222
EAN: 0724357860222
ASIN: B0001XQ6FE
Release Date: July 13, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Quatre Parishe | | • | When the Saints Go Marching In | | • | Lay My Burden Down | | • | Marie Laveau - Dr. John, Gurley, Robert | | • | Dear Old Southland - Dr. John, Layton, J. Turner | | • | Dis, Dat or d'Udda | | • | Chickee le Pas | | • | The Monkey - Dr. John, Bartholomew, Dave | | • | Shango Tango | | • | I Ate Up the Apple Tree - Dr. John, Williams, Dave | | • | You Ain't Such a Much - Dr. John, Joseph, Pleasant | | • | Life's a One Way Ticket - Dr. John, Joseph, Pleasant | | • | Hen Layin' Rooster | | • | Stakalee | | • | Eh Las Bas - Dr. John, Ory, Kid | | • | St. James Infirmary - Dr. John, Primrose, Joe | | • | Time Marches On - Dr. John, Willoughby, Joe | | • | I'm Goin' Home |
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Amazon.com
Mac Rebennack took his stage name from the voodoo healer Dr. John and became a '70s pop star by recasting New Orleans's myth and music in his own psychedelic image. At 63, he's again revamped the Crescent City sound, minus the acid-trip trappings, for his best album in decades. With its string, horn, and Afro-Latin percussion sections and its slate of re-imagined classics, N'Awlinz is a masterful summation of Dr. John's abilities as a leader and performer. Guests such as Willie Nelson, B.B. King, and Mavis Staples, plus a roster of Louisiana luminaries including Randy Newman, Nicholas Payton, Snooks Eaglin, Gatemouth Brown, Dave Bartholomew, and Earl Palmer, all make winning contributions. In Dr. John's grasp, "When the Saints Come Marching In" becomes a stately waltz that twines his elegant piano and gravel throat with Staples's rich, red-clay gospel singing. And he honors the spirit of standards like "Stackalee" and "St. James Infirmary" while spinning his own lyrics and melodies into them. "Time Marches On" (with King, Nelson, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band), "Life is a One Way Ticket," and several spirituals contemplate mortality, but never interrupt the graceful, upbeat flow of this late-career opus. --Ted Drozdowski
Album Description
Featuring special guests Mavis Staples, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Cyril Neville, Randy Newman, Willie Nelson, B.B. King and others.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dr J is the man November 11, 2008
Michaeljlewis
A strong effort from dr john at 68 he is still making some strong records
 Super Find February 19, 2007
D. Allen (McKinney Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm new to Dr. John, so I didn't know what to expect when I ordered this. I've listened to it several times now, and while I enjoyed the first listen, it keeps getting better. It's like a rich musical gumbo (sorry about that) with lots of texture. Yeah - that's the ticket - texture. It's not a particularly joyous album, but a rather somber and earthy one, with a quality of writing and musicianship that is rare these days. I plan to buy many more of his discs.
You would hope that music of this calibre was properly recorded and mastered, and fortunately N'Awlinz was. This disc has audiophile quality sound that would be difficult to improve upon. The soundstage is deep and wide, the tonal balance is perfect, and it wasn't mastered too loud, allowing full dynamics. They did push the volume to the point just before compression occurs, and I wish they'd given it a little headroom, but it works. Due to the fullness of the sound and lack of grain, I suspect it was mastered using DSD.
My New Fave Mac Recording May 7, 2006
Bruce Kendall (Southern Pines, NC)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed this guy for ages. He epitomizes NOLA music. He did learn at the knee of one of the giants of NOLA musicians, after all (the immortal Professor Longhair). This CD is the Doc's greatest expression of his N'Awlins (OK purists, quibble with my spelling and usage) thus far, and that is saying something.
He has gathered an unbelievable supporting cast for this CD. Mavis Staples' contribution on The Saints Come Marching In, for instance, lends that old saw an entirely new dimension of expression and soulfulness. Slow Drag New Orleans Jazz at it's rootsiest and one of the best modern examples I've heard in recent memory. The Dr has always been great at homework. The heritage is tatooed into his consciousness.
"Marie Laveau" is a pure Night Tripper gumbo and gris-gris homage to his former persona, with a contemporary, sardonic, tongue in cheek veneer.
Chikee Le Pas, Mardi Gras is pure purple, gold and green, and will take any former NOLA denizen straight back to St Charles Ave on Fat Tuesday in a heartbeat. How could it not, as it features Cyril Neville and The Mardi Gras Indians on backup vocals?
Fellow New Orleanean Randy Newman (another Crescent City genius) lends his considerable style and talent to another great track: I Ate up the Apple tree...usual satirical, farcical genius at work.
It's also fitting that Willie Nelson appears on a couple tracks, most notably on "Such a Much." Louisiana and neighboring Louisiana have long had an exchange of music and musicians... I can't recall the number of times I heard the late Stevie Ray Vaughan at Tipitinas...He was practically the Texas House band...Willie does a great job in preserving the "hands across the border" tradition.
Nice to hear the late Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown contributing, as well. He and the also posthumous James Booker were huge influences on Mac, as well.
Then you get a nice dose of BB King on "Hen-Layin Rooster" in the double entendre tradition of Bessie Smith, et al....who could resist? This is the in-crowd folks, makin' music like only true roots artists can. The assembled cast could knock off more soul-inspired melodies in their sleep than the current crowd of wannabes could struggle for in a lifetime of trying.
On my premiere list of recordings for the new decade.
For fans of NOLA or Dr John...please also give a listen and maybe buy the CD, Seppiana Hericane. All procedes go to victims of Katrina. He pours his heart out to his hometown on that one. He pours his soul out in this one. This has it over the more recent CD, musically, but the city, unique in the world, needs your bucks on the other.
BEK
Good stuff April 26, 2006
R. B. Wise (WV, formerly NOLA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good, solid album of the Doctor's music. I never thought St. James Infirmary could make me want to dance, but this one with Mavis Staples does.
Excellent January 18, 2006
D. Stichick (Heidelberg, Germany)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
it's a fantastic album! I've been playing it over and again ever since I received it. I'm so happy with my choice, not only Dr. John is superb, but the instrumentals, the back up singers and the talented performers that are also given the chance to sing by themselves. This album also features great songs like "When the saints go marching in" in a rendition that's brilliant and not often heard, as well as "Lay my burden down" with Dr. John and Mavis Staples that is all soul. The piano solos are superb, and I can truly say that there's not one song I don't like or that I like less. B.B.King and Willie Nelson are also featured. In my opinion this album is a real treasure.
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