{"id":1038,"date":"2010-08-17T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:02:06","slug":"dr-john-and-the-lower-911-tribal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/dr-john-and-the-lower-911-tribal\/","title":{"rendered":"DR. JOHN AND THE LOWER 911 + Tribal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tribal-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1039\" title=\"Tribal-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tribal-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"Tribal\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tribal-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tribal-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>D<\/strong><strong>R. JOHN AND THE LOWER 911<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tribal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[429]<\/p>\n<p>The advance hype on <em>Tribal<\/em> posited it as Dr. John\u2019s funkiest and earthiest in years, as if anything Mac Rebennack touches could possibly not be funky and earthy. But there is something to be said for the rest of the hype. The album more than vaguely recalls those early records when he was still billed as \u201cDr. John the Night Tripper\u201d\u2014a time when his mesh of otherworldly, slinky voodoo and the deepest of indigenous New Orleans rhythms was still so far off the grid that few knew what to make of it. <em>Tribal<\/em> isn\u2019t a throwback\u2014Dr. John knows that in post-Katrina NOLA there\u2019s no going back (borne out by the anthemic \u201cOnly in Amerika\u201d). But on several tracks, particularly the mid-album triad of \u201cJinky Jinx,\u201d \u201cManoovas\u201d (featuring Derek Trucks on slide guitar) and the title cut, the Doc finds that familiar, ancient place and lives in it long enough to reawaken a mood he created long ago. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR. JOHN AND THE LOWER 911 Tribal [429] The advance hype on Tribal posited it as Dr. John\u2019s funkiest and earthiest in years, as if anything Mac Rebennack touches could possibly not be funky and earthy. But there is something to be said for the rest of the hype. The album more than vaguely recalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[631,196,629,623,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}