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Dr. John made blues, funk and jazz sound like one language rather than three. Born Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack Jr., he left behind a catalog running past forty releases, and the records that mark the arc are the ones that kept circling back to his own city: Goin' Back to New Orleans, which took the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1993, City That Care Forgot, which won Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2009, and Locked Down in 2012, which won Best Blues Album the following year. Six Grammy Awards in total, spread across blues, jazz vocal, pop collaboration and rock instrumental categories, which is about as wide a spread as the trophy shelf allows.
He came up in it. Rebennack grew up in New Orleans, immersed in the R&B and jazz scene, and his first professional years were spent as a guitarist and session musician backing local artists rather than fronting anything. The solo persona, Dr. John the Night Tripper, arrived in the late 1960s, after the apprenticeship was already done.
The collaborations tracked that range. He shared a Grammy with B.B. King for "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" in 2001, toured as part of Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, and worked under his own banners with Dr. John and The Nite Trippers and The Louisiana Gator Boys. He returned to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival across multiple years, the kind of repeat booking a festival only makes for an act it trusts with a crowd. That combination of catalog, credentials and range made him a fit for festival and fair lineups, college events, casino stages, and private engagements.
