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Dr. John: Shadowy Singer Rises From Bayou

Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1968

AN UNEARTHLY sax pattern sets it off, yielding to bell-like guitar sounds, gently knotted rhythms of congas, bongos and drums and a mystically soothing female chorus as the grainy out-of-the-swamps voice begins its incantation:

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