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Among the better known songs of the album, “Southern Nights” was Toussaint’s tribute to evenings spent with his Creole family on a porch in the songwriter’s native Louisiana. The song that would become Toussaint’s signature song was brought to the attention of Glen Campbell by Campbell-collaborator Jimmy Webb. Campbell released it on an album he titled Southern Nights in February 1977, whereupon it spent four weeks at the top of the country, pop and adult contemporary charts. Toussaint’s version of the song was very different from the “cheerful catchiness and…bright, colorful feel” of Campbell’s; AllMusic comments in its album review on the “swirling, trippy arrangement that plays like a heat mirage” of Toussaint’s version, while The Times-Picayune remarked in 2009 on its “strange psychedelic-swamp-water sound.” In 1994, Toussaint came out of a lengthy hiatus as a performer to record the song in duet with Chet Atkins for the compilation album Rhythm, Country and Blues.Toussaint frequently performed the song in concert.