{"id":2367,"date":"2010-06-02T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthologysd.com\/blog\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:23:28","slug":"a-hipster-is-hip-even-when-he-doesn%e2%80%99t-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/2010\/06\/02\/a-hipster-is-hip-even-when-he-doesn%e2%80%99t-try\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hipster Is Hip Even When He Doesn\u2019t Try"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Michael Kinsman | Frogger Dogger<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Street lore has it that Mac Rebennack started fooling around with drugs when he was 12 years old. He spent his teenaged years running the streets and playing music with hoodlums from New Orleans\u2019 Third Ward. But the entire time, he was having fun, even though he lost three of his lead singers to prison. Nights often ended up in brawls and he took a gunshot wound to hand that forced him to quit playing guitar and take up the piano.<\/p>\n

He created a music persona for himself at the age of 26 and became Dr. John Creaux, the Night Tripper. Along with that came a love of New Orleans culture that seeps through every second of his music. He became an ambassador of New Orleans music to the outside world, while he was just being himself. Even to this day, he speaks a Third Ward patois and regularly uses words like \u201cjivin\u2019\u201d and \u201ccats\u201d that sounds nothing short of authentic.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve probably seen Dr. John play at least 20 times, from cozy barrooms to huge outdoor festivals with thousands of people. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard him play \u201cTipitina\u201d twice the same way and every time he plays \u201cI Walk on Gilded Splinters\u201d it sounds more exotic than the last time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But to really appreciate him, you\u2019ve got to listen to a 1988 recording entitled \u201cDr. John Plays Mac Rebennack.\u201d It is the maestro on a grand piano playing 13 songs from the incredibly romantic \u201cDorothy\u201d to \u201cMac\u2019s Boogie\u201d to the rambling \u201cDreams of Professor Longhair,\u201d to \u201cSilent Night\u201d and Hoagey Carmichael\u2019s \u201cThe Nearness of You.\u201d There are no wild costumes here, no schtick, just authentic \u201cI got New Orleans in my bones\u201d piano playing.<\/p>\n

Dr. John and the Lower 911 play two shows Anthology in San Diego on June 10.<\/p>\n

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