Aaron Neville: I Know I've Been Changed

"MR: Joe Henry produced it ... And you feature Allen Toussaint on piano — Toussaint, of course, being another New Orleans legend. AN: Well, not just that, but he's also my first producer, and we had like a fifty year anniversary. ... MR: Would you describe I Know I've Been Changed as, basically, a stripped down gospel album? AN: I think I would. It's like old time gospel stuff. There are a couple of things that I heard a long time ago, and some of it was new to me. ... One of the Sam Cooke things I did was 'I'm So Glad,' and that was one of the songs my boys and I would do walking down the streets in New Orleans as teenagers. We might have been going to get into mischief or whatever, but we'd be singing 'I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last)' trying to sound like Sam and The Soul Stirrers. 'I Am A Pilgrim' — I think Sam and them did that too back in the day, but I like the version that I'm doing on this record" (Mike Ragogna, "A Conversation with Aaron Neville," Huffington Post, 11/1/10).

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