Snooks Eaglin - New Orleans Street Singer: Great R&B Sounds Of New Orleans

2019 UK CD collection.

Snooks Eaglin had a reputation as a "Human Jukebox" such was his vast knowledge of songs and in his early teens he performed in a group with Allen Toussaint. Discovered in his early 20s as a street busker in New Orleans, Eaglin went on to have a small but interesting career recording his first tracks with Louisiana's folklorist, Dr. Harry Oster. These initial recordings are featured on Disc 1 whilst the second disc covers his more blues and R&B style. This unique performer is long overdue a reappraisal and these early recordings are a must.

    - Disc 1 -

    1 Careless Love
    2 Come Back Baby
    3 High Society
    4 Let Me Go Home Whiskey
    5 Trouble in Mind
    6 St. James Infirmary
    7 I Got My Questionnaire
    8 The Drifter Blues
    9 Rock Island Line
    10 Every Day I Have the Blues
    11 Sophisticated Blues
    12 See See Rider
    13 One Scotch, One Bourbon (One Beer)
    14 A Thousand Miles from Home
    15 I'm Lookin' for a Woman
    16 Look Down That Lonesome Road
    17 Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes
    18 Mailman Passed
    19 I'm a Country Boy
    20 I've Got a Woman
    21 Alberta
    22 Brown Skinned Woman
    23 Don't You Lie to Me
    24 That's All Right
    25 Well I Had My Fun
    26 Bottle Up and Go
    27 The Walkin' Blues

    - Disc 2 -

    1 One More Drink
    2 Fly Right Baby
    3 Yours Truly
    4 Nobody Knows
    5 That Certain Door
    6 By the Water
    7 If I Could
    8 Guess Who
    9 My Head Is Spinnin'
    10 Travelin' Mood
    11 Going to the River
    12 I'm Slippin' in
    13 Nothing Sweet As You
    14 Don't Slam That Door
    15 People Are Talking
    16 Reality
    17 Long Gone
    18 Willy Lee