{"id":843,"date":"2012-04-04T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=843"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:47:25","slug":"dr-john-w-black-keys-auerbach-in-brooklyn-acad-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/04\/dr-john-w-black-keys-auerbach-in-brooklyn-acad-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John w\/ Black Keys’ Auerbach in Brooklyn Acad Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blind Boys of Alabama, conguero & Dr. John at BAM – Brooklyn Academey of Music<\/p><\/div>\n

Locked Down<\/a> is The Black Keys guitarist-songwriter Dan Auerbach’s collaboration with Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack — the two premiere it April 5 – 7 at Brooklyn Academy of Music<\/a>, second program of three the good Dr. presents there over three consecutive weekends.\u00c2\u00a0I bet it’ll be a better-produced show than his “Tribute to Louis Armstrong,” the all-star hodgepodge I’ve reported on in my new\u00c2\u00a0City Arts column<\/a>. Which was fun, but. . .<\/p>\n

On first listen: Locked Down<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0bluesy, hooky and kinda rad, more wry and martial than funky and celebratory. A retro-soul mix: Plenty of gtr-tremolo, cheesy organ, stiff-rockin’ rhythms, girls goin’ ooh and ahh while Mac croons, “Religious delusions . . . stone confusions . . .rebellion revolution . . \u00c2\u00a0Is this the final solution?” over riffing bari sax. He rues our current hard times in “Ice Age,” warns “the world’s loss is everybody’s business,” portrays an egomaniac in “Big Shot” then gets credibly humble in “God’s Sure Good.” Not about to replace “I Walk on Gilded Splinters”<\/a> in my playlist, but a strong followup, 45 years later, to that swamp mystic classic.<\/p>\n

Next week Dr. John hosts New Orleans homies Irma Thomas, Ivan Neville, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, alto saxist Donald Harrison and trumpeter Nicholas (“‘BAM’ not ‘jazz,’<\/a>“) Payton. Predicting that will be another loose, over-stuffed, fun-enough event.<\/p>\n

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