A NY Times article profiling Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, drops an interesting piece of news: the artist recently recorded Randy Newman’s theme song for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, about old New Orleans. “They wanted his voice, which is not a bad idea if you’re going to do New Orleans,” said Randy Newman. “He’s the real thing in every kind of way.” Randy has known Mac Rebennack since the 1960s, when both men worked as Los Angeles studio musicians. “You don’t have to tell him much about music. He knows where he is, wherever he is.”