In the Right Place by Dr. John

In the Right Place, Dr. John's sixth album, rolled out on Atco in 1973 with Allen Toussaint producing, and it's the moment Mac Rebennack's voodoo-flavored medicine show stepped out of the fog and onto the dance floor. The session man who had built a cult following with Gris-Gris finally found a mass audience, and this became the biggest-selling album of his career.

Toussaint gives the grooves a lean, springy New Orleans funk bounce, and Rebennack's rolling piano and gravelly drawl sit right in the pocket. "Right Place, Wrong Time" was the smash, a Top 10 hit in both the U.S. and Canada, while the slow-rolling charmer "Such a Night" later turned up in the Band's The Last Waltz concert, the one Martin Scorsese put on film. The album hung around the Billboard 200 for 33 weeks and peaked at No. 24, his best showing there.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.