Allen Toussaint Life, Love And Faith – Speakers Corner 180g Vinyl

“Life, Love And Faith” marks his launch into his solo career, and quite rightly so. In the songs, Toussaint amalgamates all he had mastered with a rocking R&B, funky rhythms and expressive soul to create his highly personal sound.

Although it is a soul album through and through, one has the feeling that one is listening to an album from Reprise’s stable of singers/songwriters – including such artists as Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and Joni Mitchell – rather than what usually came out of New Orleans in the early Seventies.

And also because “Life, Love And Faith” captures an eccentric genius who pursues his own idiosyncratic vision. It is a structured, multi-layered album, which does not show Toussaint in his purest form, but it is his only album that shows just how widely ranged and profound his many talents were.

Track Listing

Side A
A1 Victims Of The Darkness
A2 Am I Expecting Too Much
A3 My Baby Is The Real Thing
A4 Goin’ Down
A5 She Once Belonged To Me
A6 Out Of The City (Into Country Life)

Side B
B1 Soul Sister
B2 Fingers And Toes
B3 I’ve Got To Convince Myself
B4 On Your Way Down
B5 Gone Too Far
B6 Electricity