Locked Down

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AlbumMar 30 / 201210 songs, 42m 31s
New Orleans R&B
Popular Highly Rated

Dr. John goes on the attack in *Locked Down*, an utterly uncompromised 2012 collaboration with coruscating Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach. The 71-year-old hoodoo guru foments rebellion in \"Revolution\" and attests to his salvation in \"God\'s Sure Good,\" riffing and jiving like his life depends on it. The music, a relentlessly rocking assemblage of R&B, funk, rock, and soul, sounds ageless and agile, like all of Louisiana distilled into a heady reborn brew.

7.5 / 10

Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys produced the New Orleans legend's newest, a weird-ass mix of grotty funk and R&B.

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Dr. John’s new Dan Auerbach-produced album Locked Down has been hyped and hailed as a throwback record: one of those back-to-basics efforts that have been staples of nearly every music year since Rick Rubin first met Johnny Cash. But what are “the basics” when it comes to Dr. John? The New Orleans legend’s one big…

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To live and breathe in the sketchiest part of the Quarter…to hustle and flow, to let go…to get saved and find a funky kind…

Check out our album review of Artist's Locked Down on Rolling Stone.com.

Between 1968 and 1972, New Orleans-cum-L.A. session musician Mac Rebennack transformed himself into Dr. John, The Nite Tripper.

8 / 10

When Dr. John, the master of voodoo blues, was given a Black Keys album by his granddaughter, a pan-generational connection was initiated.

<p>Dr John adds another feather to his cap, with a little help from Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong></p>

7 / 10

The collaboration with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach is an inspired way to update Dr John's sound – and no one makes music like him, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>

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