Double Elvis.

Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story about voodoo.

Not the Hollywood version of voodoo, because this isn't a story about pincushion dolls and needles.

Nobody worships the devil in this story.

Well, almost nobody.

This is a story about real Louisiana voodoo. The kind with the power not only to hurt and to hex,

but also to heal. This is a story of Dr. John, a pimp, a drug addict, an outlaw, and a piano man who made

great music. Unlike that music, I played for you at the top of the show, and that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called 9.5 Fingers, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to the lion's sleeps tonight by the tokens.

And why would I play you that particular slice of no-nut high-note cheese, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on December 24, 1961.

And that was the day that a musician named Mack Rebenack, who would later become known as Dr. John,

was shot outside a bar in Jacksonville, Florida, in an incident that kicked off a harrowing

journey through

the criminal underworld and ultimately to musical salvation.

On this episode, a shooting, a car chase, a drug bust, time in federal pen, musical healing,

and rebirth with Dr. John.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is disgrace. It was the night before Christmas in New Orleans.

In the city's third ward, It was the night before Christmas in New Orleans.

In the city's third ward in a tiny shotgun apartment, a creature was stirring and it definitely

was not a mouse.

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