There's no Allen Toussaint Appreciation thread

thanks for sharing !

Terrible formatting but amazing story, thanks for posting!

Wow, that’s wild. Hope some of that can be released someday

just adding that The Bright Mississippi is a bloody great album.

I wanna hear from that stuff in LA (x-post) well lots of it :

Among the stacks was a demo recorded by Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli, dated 7/1/75. Ten songs, just voice and guitar. It sounds like Jimi Hendrix doing “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” alone in a hotel room. The world doesn’t know it exists, let alone that it’s residing in a garage in southwestern Los Angeles.

This is “Black Samson,” Toussaint’s unreleased 1974 soundtrack to the blaxploitation film of the same name. The music is in a class with Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly” and Marvin Gaye’s “Trouble Man.” Reginald Toussaint confirmed that the only existing copy is currently in Nishita’s garage.

Heck yeah.

The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Thursday evening to rename Robert E. Lee Boulevard for Allen Toussaint.

https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_62ba3370-6f37-11ec-9817-c3bfd02cbdb5.html

Wow that’s awesome.

I recently discovered how many cover versions there are of one of my all-time favorite songs (by any artist) — “What Do You Want the Girl To Do?” I listened to most of them; they’re all good, but nothing beats the original (IMO).

I have to listen to Toussaint's again. I probably hear Boz Scaggs and Bonnie Raitt's version of that song more than anyone else's.

xp And very happy about that news. Back in 2010, Toussaint played a FREE show at Prospect Park and I'm very glad I went - I even snagged a seat very close to the stage. Good crowd, but it didn't fill up completely - I remember having brunch with some friends including one music major and inviting them along, but they all passed. Guy's a f-ing legend but he still felt underappreciated in his lifetime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsFnSzS87w

I had missed Bonnie's version! That's a really nice one (though the gender switch is hard to mentally adjust to)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOD2PdaBGE

nearly a half century old and this shit still slaps

Amazing songwriter, pianist etc., so glad the Boulevard is renamed after him