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re: Allen Toussaint...
Posted on 4/3/14 at 11:54 am to ForeLSU
Posted on 4/3/14 at 11:54 am to ForeLSU
Only in New Orleans (Metairie) can you walk into a Barnes and Noble and Allen Toussaint is playing a free show with 5 people watching. Incredible. Asked him to play Sweet Dreams and he looked at me like "what you know about Sweet Dreams white boy?"
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:03 pm to DreadDub
One of the all-time greats, and the man most responsible for the N.O. r&b boom during the 60's through the early 70's. Artists that he shaped/influenced include: Ernie K-Doe, Benny Spellman, Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Tommy Ridgley and god knows who else. He still performs and is about to release a new album. One of the nicest damn people you will ever have a chance of meeting. In my younger days, I had a confrontation with a then new orleans politico, and he saved me from getting my arse busted and arrested. For a modern take on some of his classic tunes, look up the album Occapella by Jon Cleary.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:04 pm to DreadDub
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Only in New Orleans (Metairie) can you walk into a Barnes and Noble and Allen Toussaint is playing a free show with 5 people watching. Incredible. Asked him to play Sweet Dreams and he looked at me like "what you know about Sweet Dreams white boy
I met him in City Park on a random afternoon. I was stoked to shake his hand.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:23 pm to DreadDub
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Only in New Orleans
Yup
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