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

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.

Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
Studio album by
Dr. John
ReleasedAugust 19, 2014 (2014-08-19)
RecordedDecember 2013
GenreR&B
Length58:24
LabelConcord
ProducerDr. 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
Metacritic72/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Drowned in Sound5/10[4]
Paste7.9/10[5]
PopMatters[6]
USA Today[7]

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

References
  1. "Dr. John – Things Happen That Way". discogs.com. July 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. "Reviews for Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch by Dr. John". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. Jurek, Thom. "Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch - Dr. John". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  4. Doherty, Jack (25 August 2014). "Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat...Spirit of Satch". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 9 October 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  5. Speed, Tom (2014). "Dr. John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch Review". Paste. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  6. Stefano, George De (16 September 2014). "Dr. John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch". PopMatters. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  7. Shriver, Jerry (20 August 2014). "Listen Up: New tributes to Satchmo". USA Today. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  8. "Dr. John infuses Louis Armstrong tribute album with 'Spirit of Satch'". Los Angeles Times. 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  9. Robert H. Cataliotti (December 2014). "CD REVIEWS DECEMBER 2014: Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch Concord". Living Blues. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  10. "Dr. John - Chart history - Billboard 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  11. "Dr. John - Chart history - Tastemaker Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  12. "Dr. John - Chart history - Jazz Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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