Dr. John Nightstage Aug. 18 1987

 

Dr. John is an old favorite of mine, I have lots of his old albums where favorites like Gris Gris and Desitively Bonnaroo are on regular rotation on my Thorens TD 316.
This concert from Nightstage is from a double bill with The Rhode Island band, Roomful of Blues, I'll get back to two alumnis from Roomful later, most notably Ronnie Earl and Duke Robillard. This tape catches the Doctor in great voice and making the Kawai Baby Grand piano dance around the stage like a feather on the Big Chiefs headdress , great crowd too. I also got a chance to work with Dr. John a couple of years later at the Cruise Cafe, I'll get there... Anyhow I remember Dr. John had a woman travelling with him that was a tour manager of sorts and she carried with her the same Sony TCD 5 tape deck that I used, we daisy chained them, I ran into her once in NYC but have forgotton her name...anyone? Doctor John is still active, do catch him live if you can.



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