Still Tripping Far and Wide.

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  • Author(s): Pareles, Jon
  • Source:
    New York Times. 4/7/2012, Vol. 161 Issue 55734, p1. 0p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      VOTIVE offerings; BROOKLYN Academy of Music; DR. John, 1941-2019; SINGERS; INSIDES Out (Music)
    • Subject Terms:
      NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)
    • Abstract:
      A skull sat alongside votive candles on the grand piano when Dr. John performed on Thursday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, midway through a three-week residency titled ''Insides Out.'' Physical and spiritual, earthly and supernatural, a memento mori and a promise of transcendence -- all were aspects of Dr. John's music for the night. The keyboardist Mac Rebennack, 71, invented his Dr. John character in the 1960s, when he was already well into a career as a songwriter and studio musician, a master of elaborate New Orleans piano and sly R&B. Dr. John embodies the history, funk and mysticism of New Orleans past and present -- a multifarious role that Mr. Rebennack has been exploring in three programs at the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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