Dr John - Dr John's GumboThe fifth album by Dr. John, aka The Night Tripper, is also heralded as his richest album to date. Dr John's Gumbowas released in 1972 and is in many ways a tribute to his hometown New Orleans. It features excellent interpretations of New Orleans traditionals ("Iko Iko", "Tipitina", "Junko Partner" and "Stack O Lee") and contemporary R&B written or played by the likes of Huey Piano Smith ("Blow Wind Blow" and "Huey Smith Medley") Earl King and Earl

What Brian Wilson doing a cover by Wire's 'The 15th' would feel like

the album eventually fell to the wayside

mixed with adesire to throw in big ESG-style dance beats and pop hooks like genius Kim Deal

Folk music personified

the vinyl edition boasts 28 tracks spanning the Eighties

Manic Revelations

no one else has ever fused the Canterbury sound with electronica in such a warm and human way

progressive and forward-looking

occasional highlights such as "The Suffering

Afrique‰۪s classic House of the Rising Funk and its funky wah wah frenzy to Hadley Caliman‰۪s deep jazz Flute ode

witty playing style

It was produced and recorded by Bobby Harlow at Studio B in Los Angeles