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AUDIO: Allen Toussaint (1985)

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1985

The New Orleans master talks about the music of his youth; the Second Line; the piano and Professor Longhair; black music in the south; the musicians he worked with, and what makes New Orleans music different.

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