Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch

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Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 19, 2014 (2014-08-19)
RecordedDecember 2013
Genre R&B
Length58:24
Label Concord
Producer Dr. John, Sarah Morrow
Dr. John chronology
Locked Down
(2012)
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
(2014)
Things Happen That Way [1]
(2022)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 5/10 [4]
Paste 7.9/10 [5]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]

Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch is a 2014 album and the final studio album released by American musician Dr. John during his lifetime, and his penultimate studio album in total. Produced by Dr. John and Sarah Morrow, it was released in August 2014. It contains songs from the repertoire of Louis Armstrong ("Satch") and features many guest musicians, such as The Blind Boys of Alabama and Bonnie Raitt.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72% based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

The album was selected as a Downbeat Editor's Pick. The Los Angeles Times wrote that tribute albums come and go, "but it's a real rarity that can snap a listener to attention like Dr. John's new salute to jazz founding father Louis Armstrong. "Ske-Dat-De-Dat" turns many of the songs Armstrong recorded inside out and upside down, fast-forwarding them to 2014 with hip-hop beats, funk grooves and wildly inventive horn arrangements that are the work of John and his co-producer and arranger for the project, trombonist Sarah Morrow." [8]

Robert H. Cataliotti's review in Living Blues magazine underlines that Sarah Morrow's "dynamic, textured, and swinging horn charts play a big part in shaping all the different stylistic approaches into a unified soundscape". [9]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."What a Wonderful World"4:10
2."Mack the Knife"6:13
3."Tight Like This"4:51
4."I've Got the World on a String"4:04
5."Gut Bucket Blues"2:47
6."Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"4:45
7."That's My Home"3:55
8."Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"3:46
9."Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"6:36
10."Dippermouth Blues"4:27
11."Sweet Hunk O'Trash"4:18
12."Memories of You"5:02
13."When You're Smiling"2:41

Personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard 200 [10] 84
US Tastemaker Albums [11] 18
US Jazz Albums [12] 1

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