Desitively Bonnaroo

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{{Infobox album

| name = Desitively Bonnaroo

| type = studio

| artist = Dr. John

| cover = Doctorjohn.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 8, 1974

| recorded = 1974

| venue =

| studio = *Criteria (Miami, Florida)

• Sea Saint (New Orleans, Louisiana)

| genre = {{Flatlist|

• Rock and roll
• funk{{cite book |last1= Andrews|first1= Michael|editor1-last=Buckley |editor1-first=Peter |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides |location=London |isbn=978-1-84353-105-0 |pages= 301–302|edition=3rd|chapter= Dr. John}}

}}

| length = 37:12

| label = Atco Records

| producer = Allen Toussaint

| prev_title = In The Right Place

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Hollywood Be Thy Name

| next_year = 1975

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Desitively Bonnaroo

| type = studio

| single1 = (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away

| single1date = April 1974

| single2 = Let's Make A Better World

| single2date = July 1974

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r35573 |label="Desitively Bonnaroo - Dr. John" |first=James |last=Chrispell |accessdate=8 October 2011}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: D|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=D&bk=70|accessdate=February 24, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

}}

Desitively Bonnaroo is a 1974 album by the New Orleans rhythm and blues musician Dr. John. The album was produced by Allen Toussaint and features sizable musical support from The Meters. The album mines the territory featured on his previous album, In The Right Place. This album spent eight weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at #105 on June 1, 1974.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1974-06-01|title=Billboard 200 - June 1, 1974|magazine=Billboard |accessdate=July 21, 2017}}

The Bonnaroo Music Festival was named after the album title, when the festival's founders looked through old albums for inspiration.{{cite web|first = Leigh|last = Buchanan|url = http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/how-we-did-it-superfly-presents.html|title = The Founders of Superfly Presents and Brains Behind Bonnaroo|publisher = Inc.com|date = 2011-05-31|accessdate = 2019-06-07|quote=[Richard Goodstone]: When we were brainstorming names, we started flipping through old records and came across Desitively Bonnaroo, by Dr. John. We looked up bonnaroo and found out it was Creole slang for good stuff.}} Bonnaroo is derived from French bonne /bɔn/, the feminine form of bon /bɔ̃/ meaning "good," and French rue /ry/ meaning "street," translating roughly to "the best on the streets."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/bonnaroo-journal.html |title=Jon Pareles at the Bonnaroo Music Festival|first=Jon|last=Pareles|author-link=Jon Pareles|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2006-06-18|accessdate=2019-06-07}}