the wild sound of new orleans by tousan

180 gram LP
New Orleans native Allen Toussaint is one of the city's greatest living pianists and after over five decades on the city's music scene, he is still going strong! Born in 1938, he got his start playing at one of New Orleans' many night clubs and was soon signed to RCA where, on 29 January 1958 he took to the studio to record this album—with a line-up of local musicians that included two saxophones, guitar, bass and drums (although the names of these musicians is a subject of some debate). In 1963, a remake of the song "Java" from this album became a huge hit for trumpet player Al Hirt. In fact, in the decades that followed, many of Toussaint's songs ("Working In A Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Mother-In-Law", etc.) have become R&B standards, and Toussaint himself a living legend of New Orleans R&B.
Track listing - Side A: 1. Up The Creek 2. Tim Tam 3. Me And You 4. Bono 5. Java 6. Wham Tousan 7. Nowhere To Go 8. Nashua 9. Po Boy Walk 10. Pelican Parade 11. You Didn't Know, Did You 12. A Lazy Day Side B: 1. Chico 2. Back Home Again In Indiana 3. Second Liner 4. Cow Cow Blues 5. Moo Moo 6. Sweetie Pie (Twenty Years Later) 7. Up Right 8. A Blue Mood 9. Naomi 10. Al's Theme 11. Real Churchy