Dr. John - Things Happen That Way

Released 19th August 2022. Vinyl Expected 14th October 2022.

Over the course of his six-decade-long career, Dr. John embodied a near-mythic multitude of musical identities: global ambassador of New Orleans funk and jazz and R&B, visionary bluesman, rock and roll innovator, one-time top 10 hitmaker, self-anointed and massively revered high priest of psychedelic voodoo. OnThings Happen That Way, the six-time Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer otherwise known as Malcolm John Mac Rebennack Jr. reveals yet another dimension of his cosmically vast musicality: a lifelong affinity for classic country & western, whose songs he first encountered via the 78 rpm records frequently spun at his fathers electronics shop.Things Happen That Wayarrives as the latest and final studio album from an artist who remained wholly unpredictable, alchemizing the charmed simplicity of traditional country into a