| City Lights | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
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| Length | 38:29 | |||
| Label | Horizon (SP-732) | |||
| Producer | Tommy LiPuma, Hugh McCracken | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
City Lights is an album by Dr. John, his first for Horizon Records. [4] It was released in 1978. [3] [5]
Neon Park provided the album artwork.[ citation needed ]
Doc Pomus collaborated with Dr. John on a few of the album's songs. [6]
The Globe and Mail wrote that Dr. John's "honky-tonk piano sounds especially fine and strange against the lushness of strings - the title song virtually drips with sweet decadence." [7]
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "established Dr. John as a skilled songwriter." [8] Phoenix New Times deemed "He's a Hero" " the ultimate hipster-in-the-night song." [9] Writing after the musician's death, Billboard thought that the title track, "combining stride piano, strings and an evocative lyric, displays a subtlety Dr. John wouldn’t fully commit to again." [10]
All songs written by Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) except where noted
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