Mac Rebennack, widely known as Dr. John, changed the course of popular music starting with his 1968 debut, Gris Gris and pushed it further with each new album, infusing his recordings with exciting new directions and influences while throwing off hits like “Right Place, Wrong Time” and “Such A Night” in his wake.

We are fortunate that the music continued to pour out of him until the world lost him in 2019—five decades after we’d first been hoodood.

The Estate of Dr. John and Omnivore Recordings are pleased to present Live At The Village Gate, a previously unheard performance (unless you were lucky enough to be there), recorded on the evening of March 5th, 1988.

The set features classics like “Mess Around,” “Georgia On My Mind,” and “Mardi Gras Day” — and even a crowd request for “Mama Roux” from his aforementioned debut album, Gris Gris—all, of course, played to perfection.

With mastering and restoration by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves, Live At The Village Gate also includes new and informative line notes from The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese. It’s over 90 minutes of prime, live Dr. John, and as he says, “Let The Good Times Roll.” Experience Live At The Village Gate.

Disc One:
1. Renegade
2. Qualified
3. Life Is A One Way Ticket
4. Keep That Music Simple
5. One Dirty Woman
6. I’ve Been Hoodood
7. Rain

Featuring previously unissued performance from 1988 by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Dr. John opens his live show on the rhythmically melodical Renegade and the timeless grooves of Qualified, and then he brings forth the formidable Life Is A One Way Ticket, the Dr Johnny Fever-hued funky brilliance of Keep That Music Simple, the rocking blues of One Dirty Woman, and then come both the organ-driven beauty I’ve Been Hoodood and the soulful balladry of Rain.

Disc Two:
8. Let The Good Times Roll/Ooh Poo Pah Doo
9. Mess Around
10. Georgia On My Mind
11. Mama Roux
12. Mardi Gras Day

Along next is the soulful R&B of the combined Let The Good Times Roll/Ooh Poo Pah Doo and the piano-driven musical frenzy of Mess Around and they are in turn backed seamlessly by a slow n’ easy rendition of Georgia On My Mind and the low ebb, psych flow of Mama Roux, this classic live set coming to a close on a harmoniously cultured Mardi Gras Day.

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