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RIP to the Night Tripper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT4RainY-lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRrXZP8b0I
Yesterday we lost another of the great ones. RIP Mac, see you on the other side.
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Never heard of him.
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Never heard of him.
That is not surprising. A lot of folks never heard of him or his music. Mac’s career started as a studio musician and even though he had a number of hits his music never seemed to hit mainstream. But he was a “musician’s musician” rubbed elbows with some of the best jazz, blues and rock musicians to ever hit a note.
I happened to hear him at a concert in the late ’70s (I went to see Leon Russell I think) and was fascinated by his live performance. If you ever ran into anybody that had any of his albums in their collection you knew were in the presence of a real non-mainstream music fan. His “Nawlins” style piano and energy never left an audience uninspired.
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Revered and respected in Louisiana….West Coast and Northeast too.
R&R Hall of Fame
multiple Grammy awards through decades.
cut his chops on Bourbon Street as a teen in the nascent days of r&r and r&b
here is the local obit from the prominent New Orleans music writer.
part of the lineage of legendary New Orleans piano players…Huey Piano Smith, Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Fats Domino. He took New Orleans music of r&b, Mardi Gras music including Mardi Gras Indian chants then funkified it with a touch of psychedelic rock.
Also he had great respect for the American standard songbook.
One of a kind. Can’t be copied or imitated.
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_a962e500-8877-11e9-991d-2f4782c02ae0.html
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.. He took New Orleans music of r&b, Mardi Gras music including Mardi Gras Indian chants then funkified it with a touch of psychedelic rock..
Your remark reminded me of this ditty. Love it, but it’s hard to paint a picture of the man with just one song.
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.. He took New Orleans music of r&b, Mardi Gras music including Mardi Gras Indian chants then funkified it with a touch of psychedelic rock..
Your remark reminded me of this ditty. Love it, but it’s hard to paint a picture of the man with just one song.
Exactly. New Orleans R&B, Mardi Gras music that was all derivative of Professor Longhair. Fess introduced the Afro- Caribbean beat along with mambo rhythms in the Fifties. Some musicologists say that this was the early birth of R&R…along with Chuck Berry’s piano player for the upbeat chord changes.
Red Beans written by Muddy Waters and Fess
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Seems I saw him once at the Portland Blues Festival, very unique style!
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Sorry to hear.
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