Dr. John & Willie Nelson Release “Gimme That Old Time Religion”
During his remarkable six-decade run in popular music, Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., known to countless music fans around the world as Dr. John, put his inimitable stamp on many spirituals and Gospel-influenced songs.
Willie Nelson, one of Mac’s close friends and most treasured musical collaborators, lent a voice to Rebennack’s final album Things Happen That Way with a soul-stirring, exuberant duet of the beloved Gospel standard “Gimme That Old Time Religion.”
Three years after Rebennack’s untimely passing the album, which features three original new compositions, a mesmerizing reworking of “I Walk on Guilded Splinters, and new interpretations of songs by Willie Nelson, Cowboy Jack Clement, Hank Williams, and the Traveling Wilburys, will be released on September 23 and is now available for pre-order.
