The Sonet Blues Story - VERVE #1
Released: Apr 11, 2006
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Released: Apr 11, 2006
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This 1971 date by New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin was recorded in the Crescent City and produced -- insofar as such a thing exists on a solo date like this -- by Samuel Charters, who has...
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New Orleans Street Singer - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Aug 30, 2005
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Released: Aug 30, 2005
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Ford "Snooks" Eaglin's first released recordings, the ones collected here, suggested to the world that Eaglin was a great lost country-blues player when he was, in fact, an excellent electric...
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The Blues of Snooks Eaglin & Boogie Bill Webb
Released: Oct 5, 2004
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Released: Oct 5, 2004
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Although this release is titled The Blues of Snooks Eaglin, there isn't really a whole lot of blues here, which isn't a complaint, since most of Eaglin's output defies easy categorization anyway,...
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Soul's Edge - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Mar 6, 2003
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Released: Mar 6, 2003
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Give this New Orleans master enough studio time, and he'll redo the entire history of postwar R&B his own way. Here he lays his mind to Joe Simon's powerhouse soul ballad "Nine Pound Steel," the...
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Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Mar 6, 2003
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Released: Mar 6, 2003
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The first of the masterful guitarist Snooks Eaglin's amazing series of albums for Black Top is an earthly delight; his utterly unpredictable guitar weaves and darts through supple rhythms provided...
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The Crescent City Collection
Released: May 22, 2001
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Released: May 22, 2001
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In 1987, when Snooks Eaglin made his debut on the Black Top label with Baby, You Can Get Your Gun, few would have guessed that the legendary bluesman was embarking on a fruitful and creative second...
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Complete Imperial Recordings
Released: Oct 24, 1995
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Released: Oct 24, 1995
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Eaglin is apt to be classified as a blues singer with considerable New Orleans R&B influences. This collection of his early-'60s recordings for the Imperial label would be much more appropriately...
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