He has become a poster child. You cannot separate Dr. John from New Orleans. He's like Louis Armstrong. He's like a cultural ambassador. He's basically packaged this culture he came out of with a lot of nuances that are pretty subtle. |
It seems like he was rediscovered, perhaps in the last decade and a half. A lot of new New Orleans music, his stamp is on it. |
One thing you can say is that as for the voodoo stuff, no one had ever done anything like that before. The stuff sounds very weird to us. I don't even know if it would make it today. |