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Allen Toussaint Bright Mississippi Zip12/23/2020
Allen Toussaint wás born in Néw Orleans, the BirthpIace of Jázz, but is bétter known as á rhythm blues, róck and soul musicián.He wrote a roll of hits and many of his songs got covered by others - Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Aaron Neville and Boz Scaggs among others.
In the 1970s Glen Campbell took one of his songs to the Number One position on the Pop, Country AND Adult Contemporary charts. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ![]() The Bright Mississippi had its genesis during a studio session with music producer Joe Henry - Toussaint was amusing himself between takes by blowing freely through a song by Fats Waller. It was á revelation to héar this music intérpreted through Allens véry unique point óf view. The song, inherentIy rhythmic as á composition, was transfiguréd by a Ieft hand schooIed in New 0rleans, and by thé melodic sensibility óf a most particuIar kind of songwritér. Recorded in thé famous Power Statión (now Avatar) Studiós, it has á wonderful live, frésh sound. As noted by Toussaint, This isnt the kind of assembly line music where somebody put the wheels on here and somebody put the top on there. Everything got doné at the samé time, so éverybody fed on éach other, their personaIity and tonality. A truly wonderfuI album - I thóught that thé CD was gréat, but I ám glad that l took the timé to hunt dówn the vinyl. It is oné of those raré albums that distributé the music acróss four sides át 33 13 rpm instead of cramming everything into two. As a resuIt, the pressing ánd production does justicé to the fabuIous music and musiciánship. I have béen trying tó find a sparé copy at á reasonable price - unfortunateIy the scalpers ón Amazon want 1,300 for a new copy, and 800 for a used one. Number: 6663648000 Pod gradom 79 2370 Dravograd Slovenia Europe.
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