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PLAY QUEUE 1 Victims Of The Darkness		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Am I Expecting Too Much		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 My Baby Is The Real Thing		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Goin' Down		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 She Once Belonged To Me		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Out Of The City (Into Country Life)		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Soul Sister		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Fingers And Toes		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 I've Got To Convince Myself		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 On Your Way Down		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Gone Too Far		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 Electricity		save

MOG Editorial Review

Few artists ever embodied the eclectic spirit of New Orleans better than Allen Toussaint, and Life, Love and Faith just might serve as his most cohesive collection. Despite shifting between R&B ("Victims of the Darkness"), soul ("Soul Sister"), and the blues ("Out of the City (Into the Country)"), the songs and styles seem natural side-by-side thanks to Toussaint's delivery and arrangements, feeling lively even in its downbeat moments. The Big Easy always felt special because it could juggle so many kinds of music with its own swampy aesthetic, and Toussaint's work here manages to capture it in one funky, pleasing package.
AMG Review of Life, Love and Faith

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

When Allen Toussaint restarted his solo career in 1970 with Toussaint (aka From a Whisper to a Scream), he leaned heavily on songs he had written for other artists, as well as a couple of covers. It was a good way to jump-start his career, and with its elastic, elegant arrangements, it set the groundwork for 1972's Life, Love and Faith, his first album for Reprise/Warner. Toussaint seized the opportunity as a way to stretch out his sound, refining it and expanding it so it was grounded in New Orleans R&B but also encompassed hard funk and smooth soul. Though it was a soul album through and through, it also had the feeling of being part of Reprise's considerable singer/songwriter stable -- such artists as Randy Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, and Joni Mitchell -- and if anything, Life, Love and Faith feels more of a piece with this group than it does with most music coming out of New Orleans in the early '70s because it also captures an eccentric genius pursuing his idiosyncratic vision. Here, it seems as if Toussaint has found every permutation of his signature sound, which is pretty much the sound of New Orleans R&B. He revives the classic, easy-rolling groove on "Soul Sister"; turns it seriously, deeply funky on "Goin' Down" and "Victims of the Darkness"; gets trippy on "Out of the City (Into Country Life)"; treads nimbly with a Philly soul variation on "She Once Belonged to Me"; and crafts a tremendous, dramatic ballad with "On Your Way Down," one of the finest songs he ever wrote. It's a textured, multi-layered record that may not be the purest dose of Toussaint, but is the one album that truly exhibits how deep and wide his talents ran.