Allen Toussaint’s ‘Songbook’ Live Album: Five Decades of New Orleans Music Reissued

Allen Toussaint (1938–2015) was a New Orleans treasure whose songs and productions defined the city’s sound for decades. His first live album, Songbook (2013), bottled that energy, recorded during two intimate 2009 New York shows where Toussaint wove stories between career-spanning performances of “Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette),” “Holy Cow,” and “Get Out of My Life, Woman.” Now, the GRAMMY®-nominated album returns via Craft Recordings with 20 previously unreleased tracks, including a cover