He’s a Louisiana-hoodoo man, a jittery gris-gris doctor prescribing syncopated second-line fonk (his idiosyncratic funk) as a cure for his patients. After years of gigging around the city as a studio ...

Mac Rebennack — aka Dr. John, the alligator-clad medicine man bandleader and ambassador of New Orleans music — makes a rare appearance during a season in which he typically reigns as king. On May 3, ...

The pop music world is full of survivors, and it would be fair to call Mac Rebennack Jr., aka Dr. John, one of them. But it is the rare survivor who continues to create vital music well into his 70s.