RESPITE NIGHT SPECIAL

Like most people my age, I first heard Dr. John from his one hit, "Right Place, Wrong Time", back about a thousand years ago. I knew vaguely about his whole Night Tripper persona and his roots in New Orleans. That was about it. Piano wasn't my thing. I didn't know then that he had started out as a guitar player. If I remember the story correctly, he switched to piano after having a part of a finger shot off at a rough gig in a rough club in a rough neighborhood. Something like that. That's neither here nor there, other that it proves Dr. John the Night Tripper was good at making lemonade.

I came across a Dr. John song that I hadn't heard before at Melting Pot, "What Goes Around Comes Around". It's a damn good song, good enough to just add some others that have been posted in the past and call it a night. Distractions are everywhere tonight, not the least of which is the election results dribbling in. I can still feel the pit of my stomach after hearing the election results the morning after the last Presidential election. As bad as I felt that day, it was before knowing just how badly the newly elected president would fuck things up, and just how fucking inept he would prove to be. Dude hasn't even looked at home plate, let alone step up to it. He didn't spend time even trying to do the job, any job really. He wakes up, does his little teenage Twitter thing and then calls his friends on the Fox morning show, and then waits for them to spill the latest crackpot conspiracy theories, tell him what Democratic governor to rag about, again all in teenage fashion. Then he golfs. That's not the end of my rant. [Exhale.]

I will now chill to Dr. John. But before I forget, the other distractions tonight are the Red Kelly Index, a rabbit hole I'm going right back to after I'm done here, and Melting Pot, the site that's hosting the cut. Bookmark them, both sites are exhaustive.Another distraction is the burritos that are cooking right now. I'm starving, distracted, anxious and lazy tonight. But, hey, I could wake up tomorrow with the four year nightmare nearly over.

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Listen:
Dr. John - What Goes Around Comes Around mp3 at Melting Pot
Mac Rebennack - Storm Warning (streaming) at YouTube Dr. John, age 18. on guitar.
Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time mp3 at Billy Chic (?)
Dr. John - Big Chief mp3 at Le Mellotron
Dr. John - Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya mp3 at Essentially Eclectic
Dr. John - Quatre Parishe mp3 at David Fullmer (?)