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Mardi Gras In New Orleans by Allen Toussaint album cover

Mardi Gras In New Orleans

by Allen Toussaint

About This Song

About "Mardi Gras In New Orleans" by Allen Toussaint

A rollicking, brass-heavy celebration of Carnival, but Toussaint's piano adds a bittersweet edge. The joy is raucous, the streets crowded, yet the melody carries a hint of exhaustionβ€”the knowledge that every parade ends, every mask comes off. Ecstatic and elegiac at once.