Ton-Ton Macoute!

Personnel: Johnny Jenkins (vocals, guitar, harmonica, foot tapping); Duane Allman (guitar, slide guitar, dobro); Paul Hornsby (guitar, piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Pete Carr (electric & acoustic guitar); Jimmy Nalls (guitar); Robert "Pops" Popwell (bass, timbales, shaker, woodblocks); Berry Oakley (bass); Butch Trucks, Johnny Sandlin (drums); Johnny Wyker (shaker, woodblocks); Jaimoe (timbales); Eddie Hinton (cowbell); Tippy Armstrong (cabasa); Southern Comfort, Ella Brown (background vocals).
Engineers: Johnny Sandlin, Jim Hawkins, Tommy Compton, Jimmy Johnson, Larry Hamby, Terry Manning, Rick Hall.
Recorded at Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia; Fame Studio B, Muscle Shoals, Alabama between 1969-70. Originally released on Capricorn Record Series/Atco SD 33-331. Includes liner notes by Johnny Sandlin.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
Personnel: Johnny Jenkins (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Ella Brown, Southern Comfort (vocals, background vocals); Pete Carr (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Duane Allman (guitar, slide guitar, dobro); Paul Hornsby (guitar, piano, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards); Jimmy Nalls (guitar); Johnny Sandlin, Butch Trucks (drums); Eddie Hinton (cowbells, percussion); Robert "Pops" Popwell (shaker, timbales, wood block); Johnny Wyker (shaker, wood block, percussion); Jaimoe (timbales, percussion); Tippy Armstrong (percussion).
Audio Remixers: Johnny Sandlin; Jeff Coppage.
Liner Note Author: Johnny Sandlin.
Recording information: Capricorn Studios, Macon, GA; Fame Studio B, Sheffield, AL; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL.
Photographer: Jimmy Roberts.
Johnny Jenkins' Ton-Ton Macoute is a fine bowl of Southern gumbo. Aided and abetted by the likes of Duane Allman (this started as an Allman solo disc, but when he formed the Allman Brothers Band, Jenkins put his vocals over the tracks best suited), Dickey Betts, and those great guys from Muscle Shoals, Jenkins cooks on such cuts as "Down Along the Cove" from the pen of Bob Dylan, and Muddy Waters' "Rollin' Stone." But it is Dr. John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters" which shines here and is the one which folks will recognize as the basis for Beck's hit "Loser." On the slippery "Blind Bats & Swamp Rats" you can almost feel the heat and humidity rolling out of the bayou. This reissue also includes the mighty fine bonus cuts "I Don't Want No Woman" and "My Love Will Never Die." Great Southern funk & roll for the discerning listener. It even includes educational liner notes which tell the tale behind each cut. ~ James Chrispell