Disc One: 1. Home Boy, Show Me The Way Back, 2. Free From The Beast, 3. Headin’ A Little Closer To My Home, 4. Jungle, 5. Trip City, 6. Strictly Off The Wall, Look What You’ve Done, 7. Unknown Jam, 8. Fish Dance, 9. Catfish Soiree Medley, 10. Burning, 11. Numerology, 12. Where Ya At Mule, 13. Tipitina, 14. Craney Crow (Chaney on cover), 15. Look What You’ve Done.

Disc Two: 1. Tipitina, 2. Craney Crow (Chaney on cover), 3. Look What You’ve Done, 4. Iko Iko, 5. Tipitina, 6. Television, 7. Cerebral, 8. Such A Night, 9. Quantify, 10. Born Under A Bad Sign, 11. Wang Dang Doodle.

This release documents a 2 days jam held at Trident Studios in London in early July 1970 with Malcom Rebennack a.k.a. Dr. John and a bunch of English musicians among which Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Carl Radle, Bobby Keys, Jim Price, Bobby Whitlock, Chris Mercer, P.P. Arnold along with the Memphis Horns, Doris Troy, Fuzzy Samuels Shirley Goodman, Jim Gordon, Tammy Lynn, Joni Jonz and many others.  On July 17, 20921 a 3 LP set from Dr.John was officially released for Record Day, the expanded version of The Sun, The Moon & Herbs on its 50^th anniversary, which featured 2 LPs of unreleased tracks from these sessions except for Strictly Off The Wall, Look What You’ve Done that had come out on another vinyl album: Professor Bizarre’s Funknology (ROGV 020), however there were complaints from Stones collector about Jagger vocals being hard to hear. Jagger can be heard at the end of Free From The Beast on the chorus fading away, but for these sessions he was just a back-up singer. The music is the usual New Orleans funky we get from Dr. John, however some songs surprise, like Trip City that reminds the Meters sound and Catfish Soiree Medley which is a 16 minutes jam pleasure. Here we het more stuff not present on the 3 LP set, like Tipitina, Craney Crow alternate take (which is the song referred at on the MM article and Look What You’ve Done; anyway, according to that article the July 9^th session lasted from 3 through 8 am, so there should be more than these 72 minutes around. The 2^nd disc presents the Ronnie Scott 1996 concert with Eric Clapton guesting and this is a nice soundboard recording too, that should be of interest to Clapton fans since it was available before just in audience quality.

Packaging is weird, as this double discs set is housed in a gatefold cover whose front picture is the reproduction of an article from Melody Maker 18 July 1970 issue, which is yellowed by time, nevertheless able to describe the sessions that originated these recordings with many interesting details; the back cover lists all songs of disc one, just three of disc two, so it seems the bonus tracks from January 1996 to have been added following an impromptu decision after the back cover was already made; as a matter of fact the last 3 tracks (Tipitina, Craney Craw and Look What You’ve Done) are replicated at the beginning of Disc Two. There is however inside a small piece of paper that lists location and songs played, as far as personnel we have Dr. John and his band, while the special guest Eric Clapton is said to have provided guitar and vocals, rest of the line-up is unknown. Apparently When The Levee Came Crashing Down too was played, but is not here. According to the OBI on almost all songs there are Jagger, Clapton & P.P.Arnold and on one track all members of Derek & Dominoes. Ot seems the original idea of Dr. John was to release a 3LP, something has happened now. The sound on this release is great anyway.