Mac Rebennack was born in 1941. Dr. John was born in 1967. What happened in between would color his whole musical career.

“In New Orleans, everything—food, music, religion, even the way people talk and act—has deep, deep roots; and, like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren’t always obvious.”—Mac Rebennack