Street Cleaning Top Ten: Toulouse Street (#8)

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The holiday weekend is almost over. Tomorrow people go back to work....and buy more online. As Warren Zevon once sang, “You buy everything you want, and then you want more.” But this isn’t about any of that. It’s about songs with “street” in the title, part four of my countdown series dealing with travel kinda things in songs. Here’s a sort of surprise....I suppose a lot of people thought the band would be on this list. They are, just not the song you were thinking. #8: Toulouse Street - Doobie Brothers What? No “Takin’ It to the Streets”? Hey, I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see! Nope, gotta go with the other “street” song that became an album title by the soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Famers (they’d better be!) the Doobie Brothers. And what is is about New Orleans and brothels? The album’s cover was shot in a brothel, and this song is obviously about a house in New Orleans (but not the Rising Sun). If you were anticipating Michael McDoobie, sorry. Hope you enjoy this other street the Doobies traveled on. Toulouse Street Written by Patrick Simmons Recorded by the Doobie Brothers From Toulouse Street, 1972 I just might pass this way again: