Influential New Orleans songwriter, musician and producer Allen Toussaint died Monday of a heart attack, his son said in a statement Tuesday.
Toussaint, 77, had been touring in Madrid, according to Clarence Toussaint.
Numerous major artists recorded Toussaint’s songs, including the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Herb Alpert, Glenn Campbell, Robert Palmer and Alison Kraus.
They included the widely covered “Fortune Teller,” Campbell’s chart-topping crossover version of “Southern Nights” and Leo Dorsey’s 1966 version of “Workin’ in a Coal Mine.”
