Biography

Allen Toussaint is a towering figure in the musical history of New Orleans. As a pianist, producer, arranger, songwriter, and A&R man, the ubiquitous Toussaint had a hand in countless 1960s and '70s hits by New Orleans musicians. He emerged as a solo artist in the '70s, the decade in which his song "Southern Nights" went to number one for Glen Campbell. Toussaint stood as a figure of hope after 2005's Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans; his collaborative album with Elvis Costello shortly thereafter was the first major work recorded in the city after the disaster.

Top Tracks

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• A Certain Girl

• Am I Expecting Too Much?

• Brickyard Blues

• Bright Mississippi

• Broken Promise Land

• Chokin' Kind

• Country John

• Dear Old Southland

• Either

• Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky

• Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (from Now On)

• Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky

• Fortune Teller

• From A Whisper To A Scream

• Hercules

• I Like It Like That, Pt. 1

• It Will Stand

• Java

• Last Train

• Man Of The Street

• Mother In Law

• Night People

• Omar Khayyam

• On Your Way Down

• Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Pt. 1

• Over You

• Shoo-ra

• Soul Sister

• Southern Nights

• The Chokin' Kind

• The Optimism Blues

• The River In Reverse

• Victims Of The Darkness

• Viva La Money

• Walking With Mr. Lee

• West End Blues

• What Do You Want The Girl To Do?

• What Is Success

• Who's Gonna Help A Brother Get Further?

• Working In The Coal Mine

• Working In The Coalmine

• You Will Not Lose

Discography

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• The Bright Mississippi

  Nonesuch

  2009

• The River in Reverse

  Verve Forecast

  2006

• A Taste of New Orleans

  NYNO Records / Valley Entertainment

  1999

• Connected

  NYNO Records / Valley Entertainment

  1996

• Mr. New Orleans

  Charly UK

  1995

• Motion

  Warner Bros.

  1978

• Southern Nights

  Water Music Records

  1975

• Life, Love and Faith

  Charly Records

  1972

• Allen Toussaint

  Varèse Sarabande

  1971

• From a Whisper to a Scream

  Kent

  1970

• The Wild Sound of New Orleans

  Edsel

  1958