Last week Allen Toussaint came to Bilbao, played, and then died the next day, in Madrid. We want to pay a little homage to this outstanding musician, born in New Orleans, in which town he lived the changes in black music of the last 70 years. We have listened to some of the collaborations he took part in from the fifties until his death: Lee Dorsey, Elvis Costello, Betty Harris or Labelle, and some covers by the likes of Warren Zevon or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Songs list:
The Flamingos – Kokomo
Allen Toussaint – Java
Jessie Hill – Ooh pooh pah dooh
Ernie K Doe – Mother-in-law
Lee Dorsey – Ya-ya
Lee Dorsey – Working in the coalmine
Betty Harris – Mean Man
Allen Toussaint – Soul sister
Dr. John – Right place, wrong time
Labelle – Lady Marmalade
Frankie Miller – Play something sweet (Brickyard blues)
Glenn Campbell – Southern nights
Warren Zevon – A certain girl
Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello – International echo
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant – Fortune teller
Allen Toussaint – Bright Mississippi
