Allen Toussaint: Introspective Funk
Joe McEwen, Real Paper, The, 2 October 1974
PRODUCER ALLEN TOUSSAINT hunches forward over the expansive 16-track control board and stares impassively through the glass at two singers in the orange studio beyond. His right hand, slightly raised, suddenly drops. The engineer seated at his right quickly halts the tape.
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