THE HAND THAT CRADLES THE ROCK CAN CERTAINLY ROLL THE WORLD

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DR. JOHN — GRIS GRIS GUMBO YA YA

Mac Rebennack started his career as a studio musician in LA in the early 60s working for Sonny & Cher, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and Canned Heat. Originally from New Orleans he’d always been fascinated with his hometown’s Voodoo/Hoodoo history. In 1968 he took up the monicker Dr John The Night Tripper, after Dr John Creaux, an infamous voodoo prince and started fusing New Orleans R&B with psychedelic rock and blues.

Here is the first track from his debut album, a broody psychedelic number in which he introduces himself and his dark practice. Imagine a misty swamp at night, with a small island in the middle. On this island there’s ahis now wife decided to elope, marrying on the city courthouse lawn. He wore white linen; she wore a Hawaiian shirt. Shortly after, the newlyweds decided to move across the country and buy a stucco house in suburban Scottsdale. Nineteen eighty-six also happened to be a turning point in the history of guns in this country.

The first restrictions on gun ownership came in the late 1960s, when the federal government put firearms beyond the reach of a certain few, such as felons and the mentally ill, and “the political lines began to be drawn in a way we would recognize today,” says Craig Whitney, author of Living With Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment. At first the NRA went along with some of the regulations, and,