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West End Blues by Allen Toussaint album cover

West End Blues

by Allen Toussaint

About This Song

About "West End Blues" by Allen Toussaint

Toussaint exhumes Satchmo's ghost, tracing a slow, humid Crescent City elegy. The piano coils like Spanish moss around a melody of loss—a tender, smoky meditation where the brightness of the Mississippi meets the shadow of memory.