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With \"Gris-Gris\" probably holding the record as \'first psychedelic voodoo album\', Dr. John is in a category \"all by hisself\" (to rip off a recent album title). Generally known as a consummate New Orleans piano man, he brings more than virtuousity to a session in which he\'s involved. The way Johnny Winter puts it, Mac (Malcolm) Rebennack is a walking library of old songs that few on the current scene have worked up, even if they DO know them. Although his first hit single didn\'t come until 1973 (Album: In The Right Place, song: \"Right Place, Wrong Time\", producer: Allen Toussaint), he\'d been a fixture as a west coast session man for about ten years, having been discovered by Phil Spector and other producers. Around 1965 he was able to create a unique persona, \"Dr John Creaux the Night Tripper\", around which he built the 1968 album \"Gris-Gris\", a sort of swamp-acid rock. And at about the same time (with such albums...