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

There is an interesting story about the making of this album. Dr. John wrote several pages about it in his autobiography, Under a Hoodoo Moon. The short version of it is that Dr. John was in London and had only his regular drummer, Fred Staehle, and background singers to record with so he scrounged up some replacements. The large, diverse assortment of musicians on Sun, Moon, and Herbs include, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Graham Bond, parts of Stevie Wonder's band, Walter Davis, and about thirty African and Caribbean percussionists. He intended for this to be a three-album conceptual set but when Dr. John finally got the masters back from his crazy manager/producer he found that some of the original recordings were missing and others had been tinkered with. In the end, they only had enough good material for a single album.

Excerpt from a review in Rolling Stone, October 1971 

This album was recorded while Dr. John was stranded in London; it was clearly born of his intense homesickness for New Orleans. As on his first album, this is Dr. John the pseudo-folklorist squeezing local color out of a tube that is fast drying up. Without vulgarizing it or describing it explicitly, Dr. John manages to suggest the whole voodoo culture in all its aging, fading, exotic seedy Creole backroom glory.