Skip to product information
  • Allen Toussaint – Songbook (2-CD)
  • Allen Toussaint – Songbook (2-CD)

Allen Toussaint – Songbook (2-CD)

$ 27.95
$ 27.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
Secure Checkout

Product Details

Allen Toussaint spent decades as one of New Orleans' most essential behind-the-scenes architects, shaping the sound of countless artists who passed through Sea-Saint Studios, but Songbook strips all of that away and places him alone at the piano with the songs themselves. The 20 previously unheard recordings added to this edition offer a rare window into a 2009 performance that captured him at his most unguarded, just a few years before his passing in 2015.

Allen Toussaint’s critically acclaimed Songbook album is available for the first time on vinyl on this 2-LP edition. A new 2-CD format is also available featuring the original album plus 20 unreleased bonus recordings. Recorded at Joe’s Pub in New York City in 2009 the album brings together Toussaint, a piano and his extensive catalog of songs. With the spotlight on his originals, it includes "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)," "Holy Cow," "Get Out of My Life, Woman," and more.

Tracklist
1. Introduction
2. It's Raining
3. Lipstick Traces
4. Introduction to Brickyard Blues
5. Brickyard Blues
6. With You In Mind
7. Who’s Gonna Help Brother Get Further
8. Sweet Touch of Love
9. Holy Cow
10. Introduction to Get Out My Life, Woman
11. Get Out My Life, Woman
12. Freedom for the Stallion
13. St. James Infirmary
14. Introduction to Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed
15. Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed
16. (All Previously Unreleased Tracks) Lover of Love
17. What Do You Want the Girl To Do
18. Hi Lee Hi
19. I’m Gone
20. Singin’ The Blues
21. Long, Long, Journey
22. Chris Kenner Medley: How Far/Packin’ Up
23. An American Tune
24. Early Days: Spoken History/Sweet Georgia Brown/Stagger Lee/Junker Blues/Fess’s Inventions (Tipitina/Rhumba/Bald Head/Big Chief
25. Two Tables Away
26. I’m Waiting At The Station
27. With You in Mind
28. Happy Times
29. Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)
30. City of New Orleans
31. River Boat
32. The Greatest Love
33. Whirlaway
34. Java
35. Freedom for the Stallion

UPC: 888072741676
Label: Rounder
Release Date: 5.29.26
Format: CD