Dr. John
Cellar Door
Washington DC
11.10.1978
EN FM remaster
01 Swanee River Boogie
02 Dance the Night Away with You
03 Wild Honey
04 He's a Hero
05 City Lights
06 Street Side
07 Mama Roux
08 Snake Eyes
09 Right Place, Wrong Time
10 Let's Make a Better World
11 Rain
12 Fire of Love
13 Such a Night
14 Iko Iko
Total time: 1:09:24
Dr. John - vocals, piano
David Sanborn - alto saxophone
Kim Hutchinson - alto saxophone, woodwinds
Buzzy Feiten - lead guitar
Jim Calhoun- bass
Neil Larsen - organ
Hugh McCracken - guitars
Steve Gadd - drums
Joyce Kaye - vocals
Tami Lynn - vocals
EN remaster notes
11.21.2014
This smokin' set of N'awlins-style mayhem was apparently captured under who knows what kind of conditions from FM radio back in the 1970s, but suffered from innumerable disturbances and fluctuations in the stereo image that were ultra-distracting. Since it's Dr. John's 74th birthday today, I took yesterday and worked on the show, eventually using an old stereo-mono matrixing-type trick to dial the fluctuations back to semi-tolerable levels and some Sound Forge 9 Graphic Dynamics pixie dust to bring some of the high end out from beneath the murk. It is still a flawed and imperfect recording, but it's a devastating performance with a ridiculous all-star band backing Mac here and I dug the energy of the set... so much so I decided to try to excavate it's essence as best I could. Enjoy and a Happiest of B'days to the Gris-Gris Man his-self.
The Doctor will see you now...
original lineage: WHFS-FM (Bethesda, MD) > low gen cassette? > CDR > EAC > dBPowerAmp > FLAC
updated lineage: FLAC files from original seed > Sound Forge 9 > Vegas 7 > FLAC w/DB PowerAmp > DIME > you