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Allen Toussaint: Toussaint

Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978

SO NOW the whole Toussaint catalogue is available again, enabling listeners of taste to trace for themselves the development of the New Orleans man's approach, resulting in the apogee of Southern Nights a few years back. And at a shade over £2, Toussaint, his first album, is an absolute gift.

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