Toussaint Explores Life Outside Big Easy
Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2007
ALLEN TOUSSAINT never left New Orleans. He spent virtually his entire distinguished career playing piano, singing, writing songs and making records with other people in recording studios in New Orleans. Until Katrina.
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