Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:31 pm

Fading out with a sax.

I thought that was a pleasant album, with surprising hints of Supertramp to it but that it didn't have anything about it that really leapt out at me. I think it was all a bit too relaxed for me.

Now to look back at the thread and see ~~the sheer carnage~~ what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:32 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Southern Nights was track 5. for me anyway.
I thought that was Basic Lady, even though it said it was Southern Nights?

I think that was my fav song. Whatever it's called. Bit like what John Lennon was going for, but never quite got there.

Does remind me of something.

I think it might be Kraftwerk or something, Franz Schubert maybe?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:33 pm

Nightjar wrote:I'd like it if we were all in sync tonight.

by Nightjar Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:33 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:This is a bit dull.

Cruel Way to Go Down?

Greatest sax solo of all time.

No exaggeration.

FACT.

by Nightjar Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:41 pm

Now I'm sad.

I failed all of you and Allen Toussaint.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:41 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Does remind me of something.

I think it might be Kraftwerk or something, Franz Schubert maybe?

This is what it sounds like.

Note for note.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:44 pm

Nightjar wrote:Now I'm sad.

I failed all of you and Allen Toussaint.

by Nightjar Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:50 pm

I doubt very much he wasn't aware of the fact.

Toussaint was composing and recording in the '50s as Tousan,

https://www.discogs.com/artist/758857-Tousan

Standards like 'Babyface" were riffed on as commonly as "Happy-bl*nking-Birthday and doubtless had their origins earlier in ragtime etc.

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Southern Nights or baggy tights?