1-CD with 16-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns

Although he has been the presiding genius of New Orleans R&B since the late Fifties, Allen Toussaint has made relatively few recordings under his own name. These are his first sides; they were made for RCA and Sevile in 1958-1959. Toussaint assembled a crack New Orleans band, including Red Tyler, Roy Montrell, Melvin Lastie and Hungry Williams, and led them through a program of wonderfully inventive instrumentals that includes the original version of Java and 26 other songs, like Whirlaway, Po Boy Walk, Cow Cow Blues, and Real Churchy. The roots of Sixties New Orleans R&B are here.

Track Listing

• Whirlaway
• Happy Times
• Up The Creek
• Tim Tam
• Me And You
• Bono
• Java
• Wham Tousan
• Nowhere To Go
• Nashua
• Po Boy Walk
• Pelican Parade
• Chico
• Back Home Again In Indiana
• Second Liner
• Cow Cow Blues
• Moo Moo
• Sweetie Pie (Twenty Years Later)
• You Didn't Know, Did You
• Up Right
• A Blue Mood
• A Lazy Day (without organ)
• Naomi
• Al's Theme
• Real Churchy (without organ)
• A Lazy Day (with organ)
• Real Churchy (with organ)

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: R & B

Run Time: 77 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127156419