A decidedly mixed two-fer-one, veering between Mac Rebennack's Night Tripper persona on Remedies and a funksome New Orleans vibe on Desitively Bonnaroo helmed by Allen Toussaint. Even by his standards, Rebennack was in a dark place during the recording of Remedies, the third of his Dr John releases following Gris Gris and Babylon. The album was finished, it seems, by his management while he sojourned in rehab: the subsequent second side filler that is ‘Angola Anthem’ drones and groans and ultimately disappears up its own 18-minute groove. The sentiment was noble: an evocation of the hell that was the Louisiana State Penitentiary, but the result, like the prison, is an unholy mess. By contrast, for Desitively Bonnaroo the combination of Toussaint's production and the presence of the sublime Meters cooks up a fulsomely flavour-full Big Easy gumbo. The Porter/Modeliste funk axis lifts Rebennack's gravelled vox on the dirty drive of ‘Stealin” and the delirious funk of ‘What Comes Around’; by contrast, Neville's organ illumines the rhumba fuelled ‘Mos Scocious'. So skip the psychedelic smoke and mirrors of Remedies and get down with the dark and dance of Desitively Bonnaroo.