• Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Sep 23, 2022
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

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  1. Sep 22, 2022
    70
    Things Happen That Way is solid, fun, and a bit sad, but a fitting, heartfelt sign-off from an American treasure. It's quite beautiful. One hopes, however, that the deleted tracks will surface on a later release.
  2. The Wire
    Sep 20, 2022
    80
    His final, posthumous recording isn’t exactly Norman Rockwell, but it does take The Night Tripper back to his country roots. This kind of twilight recording, with carefully staged surprises – see Johnny Cash’s sepulchral take on Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” – has become something of an industry cliche, but Dr John’s lifelong love for the music here is too well attested to seem like some kind of last minute A&R wheeze. [Oct 2022, p.41]
  3. 70
    Dr. John sounds in tip-top form here. [Oct 2022, p.73]