VA - The Allen Toussaint Touch (2000)
BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists
- Title: The Allen Toussaint Touch
- Year Of Release: 2000
- Label: RPM Shout [RPMSH 211]
- Genre: Early R&B, Soul, Funk
- Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
- Total Time: 60:11
- Total Size: 230 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
This is a good if rather scattershot compilation of early Allen Toussaint productions for various artists, focusing solely on his 1960-65 work, when he was at the helm of the best rock and soul recordings to come out of New Orleans. About half of the 22 tracks are devoted to the most well-known artists in his charge, including a few well-known cuts, like Benny Spellman's "Fortune Teller," Ernie K-Doe's "A Certain Girl," and Irma Thomas' "Ruler of My Heart." The rest of the names might be strange even to New Orleans experts, encompassing as they do the likes of Curly Moore, Willie West, and Zilla Mayes. So it's almost as though this can't make up its mind whether to be a best-of for his vintage years, or an overview mixing classics with rarities. Nonetheless, it's a good if slightly uneven patchwork, usually boasting Toussaint's inimitable blend of fine pop melodies, lazy bluesy funk, and a certain light production touch in which the music sounds both spontaneous and cleverly arranged. If you've already picked up the best early sides by Thomas, Aaron Neville, Spellman, K-Doe, and Hill, you're likely to be most intrigued by the dozen cuts by the no-names, some of them quite good, and most of them with a more modern soul sound, indicating that they were cut in the mid-1960s rather than the dawn of the decade. John Williams' "Blues Tears Sorrow" is a typically melancholy yet melodic Toussaint ballad, while Willie Harper's "Here Comes the Hurt Again" is exuberant southern pop-soul with an over-recorded lead vocal. Most of those secondary cuts are fetching combos of blues and pop-soul sass, even if some have an oddly unfinished feel. Overall it's a nice secondary pickup for the 1960s New Orleans soul fan.
TRACKLIST:
01 Aaron Neville - I'm Waiting At The Station
02 Aaron Neville - Wrong Number
03 Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)
04 Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
05 Ernie K-Doe - A Certain Girl
06 Ernie K-Doe - T'aint It The Truth
07 Irma Thomas - It's Raining
08 Irma Thomas - Ruler Of My Heart
09 Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo
10 Jessie Hill - Scoop Scoobie Doobie
11 Chick Carbo - In The Night
12 Art Neville - All These Things
13 Curly Moore - Get Low Down
14 John Williams - Blues Tears Sorrow
15 Willie West - Fair Child
16 Sonny Fisher - Oh Love This Is Sonny
17 Willie Harper - Here Comes The Hurt Again
18 Eldridge Holmes - Lovely Woman
19 Warren Lee - Star Revue
20 Diamond Joe - Gossip Gossip
21 Zillia Mayes - All I Want Is You
22 The Stokes - Whipped Cream
Soul | R&B | Pop | FLAC / APE | CD-Rip
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