Desitively Bonnaroo
Desitively Bonnaroo is a 1974 album by New Orleans rhythm and blues legend Dr. John. The album was produced by Allen Toussaint and features sizable musical support from The Meters. The album mines the territory featured on his previous album In The Right Place. This album spent eight weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at #105 on June 1, 1974.
The Bonnaroo Music Festival was named after the album title, after the festival's founders looked through old albums for inspiration. Bonnaroo is derived from French bonne /bɔn/, the feminine form of bon /bɔ̃/ meaning "good," and French rue /ry/ meaning "street," translating roughly to "the best on the streets."Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
- Dr John – guitar, piano, sound effects, vocals
- Allen Toussaint – keyboards, percussion, arrangements, background vocals
The Meters
- Leo Nocentelli – guitar
- Art Neville – keyboards, organ
- George Porter Jr. – bass
- Joseph "Ziggy" Modeliste – drums
Additional musicians
- Gary Brown – alto, soprano & tenor saxophone
- Mark Colby – clarinet, tenor saxophone,
- Whit Sidener – baritone & alto saxophone
- Peter Graves – trombone
- Kenneth Faulk – trumpet, flugelhorn
- Robbie Montgomery, Jessie Smith – background vocals
Technical
- Allen Toussaint – producer
- Karl Richardson – engineer
- Ken Laxton, Roberta Grace – remix engineers
- George Piros – mastering engineer
- Larry Summers – design
- Bob Nall – illustration
