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Gris Gris

Dr. JohnMP3 Music
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

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  • Original Release Date: December 20, 2005
  • Format - Music: MP3
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars GET THIS ALBUM! January 8, 2000
Format:Audio CD
If the only Dr. John stuff you've heard is his more trad New Orleans stuff, you may be unprepared for this amazing debut. This album sounds like it was recorded from the deep of a voodoo night! Specifically,it conjures up a gris gris(voodoo) ritual put on record with great percussion, spooky music that goes from something unbelievably funky(Mama Roux) to something almost barouque(the second and fifth tracks for instance) rooted in a different, darker side of New Orleans than, let's say, Fats Domino or Allen Touissaint! Swampy is a good adjective to describe it-echoey and delirious are two others! Vocally the arrangements are amazing with Dr. John taking center stage around both men and women singers weaving great lines and sometimes making animal sounds! The character of Dr. John (a real gris gris doctor from the 1800's) as well as all things hoodoo are the basis for all the lyrics. The musicians are playing very free and at times "out" so it may be a little too weird for some ears. But if you have adventerous tastes, this album belongs in your collection because there is definitley no album like it. It is evocative, funky, DANGEROUS, and, best of all, musically brilliant. You won't be disappointed.
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69 of 76 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Je suis la grande zombi... May 26, 2000
Format:Audio CD
There've been various reissues of this album over the years -- Alligator, Repertiore, and now Collector's Choice -- I have no idea how this particular CD edition stands up -- Alligator's was great, Repertiore's sounded like it was mastered off shoddy worn vinyl and then de-noised to such an extent that the sound lost nearly all of its booming depths, and Collector's Choice (though again, I haven't heard this particular version) have as a label distinguished themselves over the past 7 or 8 years by allowing cut-rate remastering talent to come in and ruin some of the 1960s best and most obscure albums (Skip Spence's OAR, the United States of America album, etc.) -- whatever: forewarned is five-armed. As for the album itself, I've safeguarded an original ATCO pressing through countless rent-strikes, burglaries and relocations, and it's one of the few I'd actually admit into that stupid Desert Island Disc rostrum. It's worth reading Rebennack's shambling autobiography to get the larger story, but to wit: a bunch of seasoned New Orleans 50s studio vets, relocated to Los Angeles after many difficult narcotics travails and incarcerations, take advantage of (a) their Atlantic/Ertugen Bros. studio connex, and (b) the ubiquitously gullible hippy thing happening all around them, and come up with a psychedelic voodoo medicine show which (no matter how much of a joke some of them may later make it out to be) is far too genuinely steeped in authenic New Orleans culture and real studio chops to relegate it to the wastebin destined for so many other 'novelty' acts of the time. Chinese-water-torture percussion, snake-slick slide guitar, and Dr. John, the feathered crock-o-the-block himself, chanting fluid paregoric incantations to astral entities the rest of us wouldn't want to come within a light-year of. Scary, and late-night, and positively medieval in places. There have always been certain albums which make evil seem downright fun, but this seething cauldron is their king.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A shadow play July 2, 1999
By "icb"
Format:Audio CD
Music to conjure memories I never had. Absolutely primal, the only things that I've heard to compare are maybe a couple of Hank Williams songs, and, oddly, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and Amon Duul II's Phallus Dei. Music that you feel has been around since the beginning, lurking somewhere, waiting to be played. The performances make me see shadows dancing across the New Orleans graveyards, where the tombs are above ground. "Walk On Gilded Splinters," forget about it - Humble Pie butchered it in a really fun way, so that's alright, and I think Johnny Jenkins did a version, but no one ever matched the smoldering mood that Mac Rebennack's band managed to give to it here. It's like they're playing it in a cave on the edge of a swamp or something. The rest of the album has the same mood: percussive, tribal, old European, very much a product of its place.

It's no surprise the album's out of print, obscure psychadelic classic that it is and record companies being what they are. Still, it's a shame. Gris-Gris is a masterpiece.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Viva La Dr. John
Buy It! The first song and the last song are my favorites. I love the voodoo New Orleans sound and Dr Johns got it down. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Lucas Cross
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr John the night tripper, indeed the CD is of its own creation and...
My boyfriend and I really love the cd, and will buy more of Dr. Johns music. I recommend this to people anybody who has an open ear to music!
Published 1 month ago by Katrina Deleon
3.0 out of 5 stars Poorly engineered CD? Yes. Highly influential music? Yes yes.
As other have already (rightly) pointed out, the CD version of Gris-Gris sounds like it was engineered by Mr. Microphone himself. Read more
Published 1 month ago by MacTonite
5.0 out of 5 stars love it
My boyfriend introduced me to this song. I downloaded it. I liked it. I would recommend this song to you.
Published 4 months ago by Lucy Elizabeth Wagner
5.0 out of 5 stars Voo-Doo tunes
I saw Dr. John play Mamaroo on Boss City when I was a kid, and it has stuck with me all this time. Brush up on your pidgeon French to catch the references in the lyrics of these... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mother Mac
5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. John Rocks!
"Gris Gris" is a distinct sound that I find a little spooky and quite entertaining. Nobody sounds like Dr. John and this is in a class all by itself. Read more
Published 5 months ago by PZio
1.0 out of 5 stars dated and druggy
I got excited being recommended this if I liked Shortly Rogers playing Afro-cuban. The Wuyyakajanga suite was a mind-blower.
Instead I got hippy music. Read more
Published 6 months ago by .fgd
2.0 out of 5 stars vinyl yes - cd no!
5 stars for my original vinyl album, which i still play, i am not happy with my newly received cd! as to the album itself & the selections, i love it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Birdman
1.0 out of 5 stars Good music, terrible recording
This disc has some early and delightful tunes on it. The early essence of the spooky "Night Tripper" in all his voodoo funk. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Peter Robbins
4.0 out of 5 stars neat!
Considering this is 1968, and considering that I've waited a long time to find out why many people admire Dr. Read more
Published 10 months ago by B. E Jackson
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