Allen Toussaint was a name that kept cropping up on production credits (The Band, Little Feat etc) but it was sometime before I bought original music for him. It was then I realised some of my the great songs that were written by him. he cropped up again and again on Treme as one of the living classics. Some of his better known songs include Freedom for the Stallion but the Hues Corporation and On Your Way Down which I always thought was an old blues classic.
This was a pretty influential album - some gentle N'awlinz hussle from Allen Toussaint - it spawned mainstream hits for Glenn Campbell with the title track and Boz Scaggs with What Do You Want the Girl to Do. Its worth digging a bit deeper on the album for the other gems including Last Train and Back in Baby's Arms.
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