If a Holy Trinity exists in New Orleans music, it’s all captured here. Toussaint is the Father, Mac Rebenack is the Son, and the Meters are the funky Holy Spirit and all are in the right place at the right time. Dr. John repurposed the title tune (penned for singer Ray J. earlier that same year), and the added punch of the Meters and Toussaint gave him his first hit song and record, all but assuring his legacy and inserting the man and the tune into American pop culture. The album balances between Saturday night party and Sunday morning repentance in equal measure. It also includes perhaps my favorite Toussaint tune of them all, “Life.”