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Southern Nights or Diamond Lights?
Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:29 pm
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:30 pm
Mellow vibe.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:30 pm
Hammond organ.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:31 pm
Rhymes "pleasure" with "treasure".
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:32 pm
Marvin Gaye-esque harmonies.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:32 pm
Last track - Cruel Way to Go Down. 
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:32 pm
This is one of my favourite songs of all time.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:32 pm
It's got everything.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:33 pm
It's got "bowowowowowowooowow" wahwah guitar licks.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:33 pm
It's got those high, reedy, uncanny saxamaphones.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:33 pm
Livening up a bit.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:33 pm
It's got THIS!!
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:34 pm
Sax player's going for it.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:34 pm
Nightjar wrote:It's got THIS!!
THE GREATEST saxamaphone solo of all of the and every one of the times.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:35 pm
Gorgeous, louche, elegantly wounded outro...
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:35 pm
Sax player's back for the climax.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:36 pm
Slightly jarring, upbeat "World Wide" leitmotif outro...
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:37 pm
It is over.
It was competent enough but the songs felt very pedestrian and the vocals lacked impact. The sax player was good.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
It was competent enough but the songs felt very pedestrian and the vocals lacked impact. The sax player was good.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:37 pm
I shall give it three stars.
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Re: Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)
by Nightjar Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:42 pm
It's not completely perfect.
However, it's an album I'm truly in love with.
All the best things about the various musical genres it encapsulates (a unique blend of brown and blue-eyed soul, blues, funk, rock, country, folk and roots specific to Southern US music) and the time it was recorded are aligned in a heavenly constellation of grooviness.
There are plenty of chugging, tastefully Southern funky toe-tappers, a couple of moments of perhaps lullingosity - but peppered with truly outstanding moments of deep, dark soulful genius...
Ultimately, the Man was a genius, and if he had had a more powerful singing voice, would've been more famed for his albums than as a keystone figure within the genre as a songwriter, arranger and all-round supremo.
Still, top marks from me.
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