With Halloween and Voodoo both on the way, this month’s playlist looks at the subject of voodoo—not surprisingly, a topic that’s fueled more than a few local classics.

Dr. John “Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya”: You could put anything from Dr. John’s early albums—or for that matter, his whole damn catalogue—on this list. But when he released this track—the opener to his first album, Gris-Gris