Dr. John with Rickie Lee JonesBest Dr. John with Rickie Lee Jones Albums Ranked
7.5
Avg Score
8
Opinions
10
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Dr. John with Rickie Lee Jones's catalog across 10 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated Dr. John with Rickie Lee Jones album is Gris-Gris (1968) with a 8.7/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Goin' Back to New Orleans and Tribal. The discography on Wavelength spans 1968 to 2010.
Gris-Gris
“Put on Dr. John’s 1968 debut, Gris-Gris, and no matter where you are, it becomes nighttime on a lonely bayou and you are the unwelcome, painfully out-of-place tourist. Every living thing is moving stealthily and slowly. Along comes a croaky old critter, snake-oil-selling the power of his gris-gris, talking about the way he gonna make […]”
Goin' Back to New Orleans
“Though his career has stretched from session musicianship to gris-gris psychedelia and supper-club standards, the music of Dr. John has never strayed far from its roots. And those roots have never been more joyously, bawdily or playfully celebrated than they are on this album. A sequel of sorts to Gumbo (1972), Goin' Back to New Orleans digs deeper than that collection did. If this isn't the defin”
City That Care Forgot
“He’s not talking about Cleveland. City That Care Forgot is the New Orleans soulman’s impassioned lament about the natural destruction of Hurricane Katrina and the man-made tragedy of the aftermath. Over ominous funk ("Land Grab"), gospel-inflected blues ("You Might Be Surprised") and horn-boosted R&B ("Time for a Change," featuring Eric Clapton), Dr. John’s bourbon-and-sandpaper vocals […]”
Sippiana Hericane
“The centerpiece of Dr. John’s requiem EP for his drowned town is a mostly instrumental suite in which he pours his love and anger into his organ and piano playing. There isn’t much sweetness in the vocal hymn "Sweet Home New Orleans," but the closing second-line chorus keeps coming ’round in hope: "We’re gonna be […]”
Plays Mac Rebennack
“Mac Rebennack and James Booker have a lot in common: both were born in New Orleans within a year of each other; found work there as precocious rhythm & blues piano aces in the mid-Fifties; developed reputations as crack studio sidemen and streetwise eccentrics in the early Sixties; and have been carrying on the grand […]”
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