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" I Walk on Guilded Splinters " (sometimes " I Walk on Gilded Splinters " or " Walk on Gilded Splinters ") is a song written by Mac Rebennack using his pseudonym of Dr. John Creaux. It first appeared as the closing track of his debut album Gris-Gris (1968), credited to Dr. John the Night Tripper. The song has subsequently been performed and recorded by many other musicians, including ...
Ton-Ton Macoute! is a blend of blues rock and Southern rock. It notably included covers of Dr. John 's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters", Bob Dylan 's "Down Along the Cove", and J.D. Loudermilk 's "Bad News". [1]
Dr. John's Gumbo released in 1972 is the fifth album by New Orleans singer and pianist Dr. John, a tribute to the music of his native city. The album is a collection of covers of New Orleans classics, played by a major figure in the city's music. It marked the beginning of Dr. John's transition away from the eccentric stage character that ...
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore is the 1971 live double-LP/single-CD by the English blues-rock group Humble Pie, recorded at the Fillmore East in New York City on May 28–29, 1971. It reached #21 on the Billboard 200, #32 in Canada, [5] and entered the UK Top 40.
We walked on gilded splinters to shove my point across to you whom I will communicate with shortly through the smoke of deaux-deaux the rattlesnake whose forked tongue hisses pig Latin in silk and satin da-zaw-ig-day may the gilded splinters of Aunte Andre spew forth in your path to light and guide your way through the bayous of life on your ...
Stanley Road is the third solo studio album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted it the 46th greatest album of all time. The album took its name from the street in Woking where Weller grew up. [1] [2] Weller's cover version of the song "I Walk on Guilded Splinters" was featured in the series ending montage of The Wire ' s fourth series end, Final Grades .
Babylon is the second album by New Orleans R&B artist Dr. John. In his autobiography, Under A Hoodoo Moon, Dr. John describes the origins of the album in detail: "Our second album was cut in late 1968—the year of the Tet offensive, and of the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. It was a heavy time for me: Not only was ...
With Phil Walden concentrating on Redding's flourishing career, Jenkins was sidelined, and it was not until after Redding's death in 1967 that Walden again concentrated on Jenkins's career. [2] In 1970, Jenkins released the album Ton-Ton Macoute!. [3] The opening track, a cover of Dr. John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters", [2] has been sampled by numerous musicians, including Beck ( Loser ...