Music Friday: Dr. John
First off, here is a link to a good New Orleans music site: ListenGood. Scroll down to find their review of Dr. John’s latest, City that Care Forgot.
And here's what The New York Times had to say about the CD.
That brings us back to last week’s topic: appropriate anger. It appears that Dr. John has a good amount of it. And it appears that he has focused it into a strong musical response to the outrage that is New Orleans.
President Bush came to town with enough lies to light up a cathedral.
That’s my line. The following one comes from Dr. John, quoted in yet another review of the CD, in The Gambit: “Say it's a job well done, say it's a job well done / Then you giggled like a bitch / and hopped back on Air Force One.”
The Internet has not caught up to this music yet. All I could find was this of it, complete with cameos by Ani Difranco, Terence Blanchard, Willie Nelson. Do they really belong in the same sentence? I don’t know, but they are all on this CD, and I am interested in checking it out.
Unfortunately, for this week’s song we have to go back to a less angry John. But it is still a good tune, and could be dedicated to our president. Behind the cut, “You Lie Too Much.”
