Allen Toussaint – Get Out Of My Life Woman
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Allen Toussaint
Listen/Download – Allen Toussaint – Get Out Of My Life Woman MP3
Greetings all
The track I bring you today takes one of the most covered tunes of the New Orleans soul scene, right back to the source (though not the original recording).
Allen Toussaint wrote ‘Get Out Of My Life, Woman’ for Lee Dorsey who had a fairly substantial hit with it in 1965.
The tune became a popular soul standard, and was covered by all kinds of artists, from LA folk rocker the Leaves, to jazz vocal giant Joe Williams.
The various and sundry versions of the song have become popular with diggers because of the tune’s built-in drum break.
Toussaint went into the studio to record his own version of the song in 1968, and the results are typically fantastic.
He lays the song down in a relaxed New Orleans groove, stripping away most of the lyrics and wrapping it all up in an interesting arrangement, with lots of piano, horns, and in a touch that showed up in a bunch of Toussaint productions at the time, acoustic guitar accents.
It’s always struck me a shame that Toussaint didn’t record solo more often, especially in the 1960s. I always like his vocals (though you can hear him singing backup on a ton of other people’s records) and his interpretations of his own songs were always interesting.
This 45 doesn’t turn up too often, but when it does it tends to be inexpensive.
I hope you dig it and I’ll see you all next week.
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Keep the faith
Larry
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