Allen Toussaint’s debut as a solo artist. In the 60s, he established himself as a songwriter, producer and arranger
for a number of labels  and generated hits like ‘Working In The Coal Mine’ for Lee Dorsey that got to #8 in the
Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.

It was only in 1970 that he found time to record another solo album, aptly entitled “Toussaint”. As well as serving
up his own version Of ‘Working In The Coal Mine’, Toussaint recorded other originals like ‘From A Whisper To A
Scream’ and ‘Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Funky’. There were also four instrumental tracks – ‘Pickles’, ‘Louie’,
‘Either’ and a sublime version of ‘Cast Your Fate To The Wind’  listed as ‘Allen Toussaint at the piano’.