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Dr. John, The Night Tripper The Sun Moon & Herbs

€149,99

New, Still Sealed, Record Store Day 2021

Deluxe and limited 50th-anniversary edition of Dr. John’s fourth studio album for Atco Records. Three LP expanded release with deluxe packaging and new liner notes featuring over 70 minutes of previously unreleased material on two discs, recorded during the 1971 album sessions and making a physical debut for RSD Drops. Only one track from the bonus material was previously available on the limited Run Out Groove vinyl release: Dr. John: Professor Bizarre’s Funknology.

If you find yourself in need of a trip (trip is the right word) to the swamps of Louisiana might I recommend you take it with Dr. John’s 1971 The Sun, Moon and Herbs (this review is for the fairly recent 180 gram pressing). Even though this album doesn’t come close to tapping into the immaculate groove laid down by the Meters on the good Doctor’s 1973 funky magnum opus In the Right Place; it’s still hard to go wrong with PP Arnold (wish I had her solo albums) and Mick Jagger amongst others on back-up vocals and Eric Clapton on slide guitar. This is also one of the few rock albums featuring a tuba. Mick harmonizes so well with the girls I couldn’t pick out his vocals until I put on the Sennheisers powered by the Headroom amp. On a couple of tracks (like Black John the Conqueror & Where Ya at Mule) the background singers should be called foreground singers which is a good thing with talent like PP, Joni Jonz, Tammi Lynn, etc. Eric’s stand out track is Craney Crow. The rather disjointed Pots on Fiyo (filé gumbo) is the least appealing to my ear, but maybe that’s because I was rather stupidly expecting a hoodooed version of Jambalaya on the Bayou (Hank Williams and The Carpenters too), which is not what it is. My favorites are Craney Crow and the voodoo epic Zu Zu Mamou. If you are not familiar with Dr. John’s Night Tripper phase I am not sure what to refer you to to prepare you for it other than B-movie voodoo flicks (and maybe in a bit of a stretch Tony Joe White and Screaming Jay Hawkins) so I suggest you sample first before diving in the swamp, unlike me, you may not relish the creepy crawlies lurking under the surface. It could help your Cajun and Creole cooking though; Dr. John is one of my go-tos when I fire up the smoker/BBQ.

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ATCO Records,Run Out Groove 081227891992, ROGV-128 3xLP, Album, Dlx, RE, Tri 2021-07-17

Side 1.

1. Black John The Conqueror 6:20
2. Where Ya At Mule 4:55
3. Craney Crow 6:40

Side 2.

1. Familiar Reality-Opening 5:25
2. Pots On Fiyo (Filé Gumbo) / Who I Got To Fall On (If The Pot Get Heavy) 5:48
3. Zu Zu Mamou 7:57
4. Familiar Reality-Reprise 1:53

Side 3.

1. Home Boy, Show Me The Way Back Home (Take 1) 10:28
2. Free From The Beast (Take 1) 4:51
3. Headin’A Little Closer To My Home (Take 2) 5:15

Side 4.

1. Jungle (Take 2) (Instrumental) 2:17
2. Trip City (Edit of takes 4 & 7) 4:11
3. Strictly Off The Wall, Look What You’ve Done 3:57
4. Unknown Jam 6:39

Side 5.

1. Fish Dance (Instrumental) 2:49
2. Catfish Soirée Medley 16:16

Side 6.

1. Burning 6:54
2. Numerology (Instrumental) 2:49
3. Where Ya At Mule (Alt Take) 9:48

Credits:

Backing Vocals – Tami Lynn
Backing Vocals – Shirley Goodman
Backing Vocals – P.P. Arnold
Backing Vocals – Mick Jagger
Arranged By – Mac Rebennack
Backing Vocals – Joni Jonz
Baritone Saxophone [The Memphis Horns] – James Mitchell
Design Concept [Concept], Design – John Millerburg
Drums [Trap] – Freddie Staehle
Edited By, Remix [Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida] – Albhy Galuten
Edited By, Remix [Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida] – Tom Dowd
Electric Guitar [Slide] – Eric Clapton
Management – Grossman/Glotzer
Photography By – Gary Burgess
Producer – Charles Greene (2)
Producer – Mac Rebennack
Remix, Tracking By [Overdub, Criteria Studios] – Howard Albert
Remix, Tracking By [Overdub, Criteria Studios] – Karl Richardson
Remix, Tracking By [Overdub, Criteria Studios] – Ron Albert
Rhythm Guitar – Tommy Feronne
Tenor Saxophone [The Memphis Horns] – Andrew Love
Tenor Saxophone [The Memphis Horns] – Ed Logan
Trumpet [Pocket], Organ – Victor Brox
Trumpet [The Memphis Horns] – Roger Hopps
Trumpet [The Memphis Horns] – Wayne Jackson
Tuba, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Ray Draper
Vocals, Piano, Organ, Guitar, Vibraphone, Percussion – Dr. John
Written-By – Mac Rebennack

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

50th anniversary edition. Expanded release with deluxe packaging and new liner notes features over 70 minutes of previously unreleased material on two discs, recorded during the 1971 album sessions and making a physical debut for RSD. Only one track (“Strictly Off The Wall, Look What You’ve Done”) from the bonus material was previously available on the limited Run Out Groove vinyl release: Dr. John: Professor Bizarre’s Funknology (ROVG-020).
D4 “Unknown Jam” is on the backcover mistakenly numbered as “2. Unknown Jam”.
Made in the Netherlands.

 

 

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout (ST-C-712263)
Matrix / Runout 31417 1A 081227891992
Matrix / Runout 31417 1B 081227891992
Matrix / Runout 31417 1C 081227891992
Matrix / Runout 31417 2D 081227891992
Barcode 081227891992
Matrix / Runout 31417 1E 081227891992
Matrix / Runout 31417 1F 081227891992

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