Primal Information is your news, entertainment, music fashion website. [19][20], Rebennack decided to produce a record and a stage show based on this concept, with Dr. John serving as an emblem of New Orleans heritage. John continues to appeal the conviction but has so far been denied a retrial. In June 2010, Dr John played at the Glastonbury festival, Shepton Mallet, UK.
Washington and Crooks also contributed to the project. On February 8, 2006, he joined Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, The Edge, and Irma Thomas to perform "We Can Can" as the closing performance at the Grammy Awards of 2006. His next album, Dr. John's Gumbo, with drummer Fred Staehle serving as the band's backbone, proved to be a landmark recording and is one of his most popular to this day. But you can find him on Twitter as @jlayke.

They noticed that during the car journey there that he was scraping his knuckles on the mesh divider – was he trying to hide injuries on his hands? In 2012, Dr. John released Locked Down, a collaboration with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, who produced the record and played guitar on it. "Mac" dropped out of school in the 11th grade … "Mac" dropped out of school in the 11th grade in 1956, at the age of 16, to become a blues piano player. 10.

From Dr. John Emerson, Fort Armstrong Medical Officer, and His Slave, Dred Scott. While it is no time to rejoice his fame, the health official has been doing his part in minimizing the COVID-19 crisis. | 

He toured with Willy DeVille and contributed to his albums Return to Magenta (1978), Victory Mixture (1990), Backstreets of Desire (1992), and Big Easy Fantasy (1995). [14] His family announced through his longtime publicist Karen Dalton Beninato that he died at break of day, and "He created a unique blend of music which carried his home town, New Orleans, at its heart, as it was always in his heart." In 1981 and 1983, Dr. John recorded two solo piano albums for the Baltimore-based Clean Cuts label. As a Rock N Roll Hall of Fame inductee, six-time Grammy winner, songwriter, composer, producer, and performer, he created a unique blend of music which carried his home town, New Orleans, at its heart, as it was always in his heart.

8.

", Dr. John's birth date was corrected in 2018 when his hometown newspaper, The Times-Picayune, discovered in their records that he was actually born on November 20, 1941, as opposed to the commonly listed November 21, 1940.

— John Torres (@DrJohnTorres) March 19, 2020.

He is married to his wife, Linda Torres for several years.

Rebennack was born in New Orleans on November 20, 1941.

Here are some interesting facts about Dr. John Torres.

[21] Gris-Gris became the name of Dr. John's debut album, released in January 1968, representing his own form of "voodoo medicine".[22]. He performed on the March 19, 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He currently resides in Colorado.

6. Dr. John Death.

Doctor John (Korean: 의사요한; RR: Uisayohan; lit. During this period, he got to know some of the city’s most influential keyboardists, including Professor Longhair and the eccentric virtuoso James Booker (who taught him to play organ and later joined Dr. John’s touring band). The statement said: “Towards the break of day on June 6, iconic music legend Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., known professionally as Dr. John, passed away of a heart attack. "I think my wife is dead." In his early teens, and his father introduced him to Cosimo Matassa, whose studio J&M Music spawned major R&B hits by Domino and other local R&B stars. Who would kill her with such brutality? The name of the festival was taken from the 1974 Dr. John album, Desitively Bonnaroo.

John claimed he had returned home and discovered Susan, 55, in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor. Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) and Jack Rummel (1994). It did produce the single "(Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away," which peaked at #92 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and to date is the last time he hit the Hot 100. John brutally killed his wife Susan, then went back to the surgery to perform an op, When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. In 1970, when Howard Smith asked him where the name "Dr. John the Night Tripper" came from, he responded, "Before that I was Professor Bizarre. In the 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog, Dr. John sang the opening tune, "Down in New Orleans". Dr. John had an estimated net worth of $12.7 million.

Dr. John born Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., was an American singer and songwriter. He is currently 61 years old.

He also contributed the song "More and More" to Simon's Playing Possum album. pic.twitter.com/6rDRFwzhSR.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Rebennack gained fame as a solo artist after adopting the persona of "Dr. John, The Night Tripper". His ancestry included German, Irish, Spanish, English, and French. A version of "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" Dr. John played keyboards and had a major role in shaping Gregg Allman's 2011 album Low Country Blues, which was produced by T-Bone Burnett.

Do you have high blood pressure?

In 1996, he performed the song "Cruella de Ville" during the end credits of the film 101 Dalmatians.

Dr. John is a member of the following lists: American singer-songwriters, Grammy Award winners and Warner Records artists. The tour produced the 1990 live album Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band.

To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript!

He is also an emergency physician.

[40], Dr. John had a heroin addiction; however, in December 1989, he completed his final rehabilitation stint with the help of Narcotics Anonymous and remained clean the rest of his life. The couple has two children together, whose identity is not public. Also performing Allen Toussaint compositions were New Orleans artists Irma Thomas, Cyril Neville, the band Galactic, and the Allen Toussaint Band.

View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, (? John was soon head over heels in love.

His supporters still believe he’s innocent and that he loved his wife too much to hurt her.

Susan’s blood and skin were found on John’s steering wheel. The same year he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Tom Waits. Dr. John delivered one of a number of eulogies and performed with singer Jimmy Scott at Pomus' funeral on March 17, 1991, in New York City. In 1997, he appeared on the charity single version of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day".

Also in 2008, Dr. John released his Grammy Award-winning City that Care Forgot about Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans. [16], As a young man, Rebennack was interested in New Orleans voodoo, and in Los Angeles, he developed the idea of the Dr. John persona for his old friend Ronnie Barron, based on the life of Dr. John, a Senegalese prince, conjure man, herb doctor, and spiritual healer who came to New Orleans from Haiti. [42], On June 6, 2019, Dr. John died of a heart attack. [6] Growing up in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans, he found early musical inspiration in the minstrel tunes sung by his grandfather and a number of aunts, uncles, sister, and cousins who played piano. by John Douillard on October 20, 2020 | 11 Comments.

Also in 1969, Dr. John contributed to the Music from Free Creek "supersession" project, playing on three tracks with Eric Clapton. In late 1950s New Orleans, Rebennack gigged with local bands including Mac Rebennack and the Skyliners, (Paul Staehle/Dennis "Bootsie" Cuquet, drums; Earl Stanley, bass; Charlie Miller, trumpet; Charlie Maduell, sax; Roland "Stone" LeBlanc, vocals), Frankie Ford and the Thunderbirds, and Jerry Byrne and the Loafers.

Then police found the Valentine’s Day card Susan had given her husband that morning.

While a struggling student at Jesuit High School, he was already playing in night clubs, something the Jesuit fathers disapproved of. He is most remembered for Gris-Gris, Dr. John`s Gumbo. He was arrested on drug charges and sentenced to two years in the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Worth. In the mid-1970s Dr. John began an almost 20-year-long collaboration with the R&R Hall of Fame/Songwriters Hall of Fame writer Doc Pomus, to create songs for Dr. John's releases City Lights and Tango Palace, and for B.B. He currently works as an NBC/MSNBC medical correspondent.

Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Worth, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. In May 2013, Rebennack received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University. [30] In 2011, he collaborated with Hugh Laurie on the song "After You've Gone" on Laurie's album Let Them Talk. In 1979, he collaborated with the legendary Professor Longhair on Fess's (another nickname for Henry Byrd) last recording Crawfish Fiesta, as a guitarist.

Barron dropped out of the project, and Rebennack took over the role (and identity) of Dr.

Dr. John Torres covers a wide range of health-related issues on all of NBC’s broadcast on cable and digital platforms. It was his last pure funk album until 1994's Television,[26] although like his voodoo and traditional New Orleans R&B influences, funk continued to heavily influence most of his work to the end, especially his live concerts. He contributed three songs as writer or co-writer ("Washer Woman", "The Ties That Bind", and "That's My Home") and also played guitar and keyboards on Levon Helm's 1977 release, Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars. Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled!

photos, A second lineup formed later in the year for an extensive tour of the East Coast with Crooks and Johnson joined by Doug Hastings (guitar) and Don MacAllister (mandolin).

[10][6][18], Once settled in Los Angeles[8] he became a "first call" session musician in the Los Angeles studio scene in the 1960s and 1970s and was part of the so-called "Wrecking Crew" stable of studio musicians.

Contribute. [31] The album received very positive reviews for its raw, Afrobeat-influenced sound.

The time slot to kill between surgeries was tight, but when investigators discovered he’d been late for his second operation, he was charged and denied bail. Dr. John Wife – Dr. John Children.

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? He was the son of Dorothy (Cronin) and Malcolm John Rebennack. "After we cut the new record", he wrote, "I decided I'd had enough of the mighty-coo-de-fiyo hoodoo show, so I dumped the Gris-Gris routine we had been touring with since 1967 and worked up a new act—a Mardi Gras revue featuring the New Orleans standards we had covered in Gumbo.". The lead single from the album, "Iko Iko", broke into the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, eventually reaching #71.

Or is he ...", "The As It Happens Transcript for November 21, 2018", "Dr John, legend of New Orleans sound, dies aged 77", "Trumpeter Charlie Miller returns in time to celebrate 'Christmas in New Orleans, "Dr. John, New Orleans Music Icon, Dies at 77", "Dr. John, Hall of Fame Singer Who Brought New Orleans to the World, Dead at 77", "Conjure Doctor Profile: Dr. John Montenee", "Dr. John treats the blues with funky sound", "Hollywood Be Thy Name - Dr. John - Songs, Reviews, Credits", "New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund - a grass roots certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina", "Dr. John infuses Louis Armstrong tribute album with 'Spirit of Satch, "Dr. John, "Let 'Em In" from The Art of McCartney (2014)", "8 Praises For Foo Fighters 'Sonic Highways, "Various Artists: The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: Celebrating Mac and His Music", "Various Artists: The Musical Mojo of Dr. John -- Celebrating Mac And His Music « American Songwriter", "Recensie: The Musical Mojo Of Dr. John - Celebrating Mac And His Music", "Grammy-winning New Orleans musician Dr. John dead at 77", "Legendary New Orleans musician Dr. John, born Mac Rebennack, dies at 77", "Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas", "All by Hisself: Live at the Lonestar - Dr. John - Songs, Reviews, Credits", "Bluesiana Triangle - Bluesiana Triangle - Songs, Reviews, Credits", "Bluesiana II - Bluesiana Triangle - Songs, Reviews, Credits", "Let Me In - Johnny Winter - Songs, Reviews, Credits", "Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits", Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr._John&oldid=985202128, Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2019, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017, Articles needing additional references from June 2019, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Dr. John was featured in the third episode of the, Dr. John sings "Huggy Can't Go Back" in the TV series, ', Dr. John is also referenced in Reunion's 1974 pop song, Dr. John was featured in the sixth episode of the 2014 mini-series, Dr. John appears as himself in the first episode of the second season of, Dr. John's unexpected performance on June 20, 1986, in, 1989 Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group - "Makin' Whoopee" with, 1997 Best Rock Instrumental Performance - "SRV Shuffle" with, 2000 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals - "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" with B.B.