PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Dr John and the Lower 911 at the Santa Monica Pier

The man-made disasters that have been foisted on Louisiana in the last five years are a microcosm of our nation's decline. On his new album, Tribal, the Crescent City's, Dr. John—aka Mac Rebennack—rails against current realities in "Only in Amerika" and comes on like a struttin' Karl Marx in "Big Gap" (the one twixt rich and poor). It's protest music you can dance to, created to help his neighbors transcend their relentless trials and provoke the rest of us into takin' action...

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