New Orleans Street Singer

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New Orleans Street Singer
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1 January 1959
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 guitar player and a gospel-influenced singer who much preferred playing R&B with a band. When folklorist Harry Oster heard Eaglin busking with his guitar on a street in the French Quarter in 1958, he whisked him over to Louisiana State University and recorded the tracks collected here, either assuming that Eaglin was a folk artist or possibly even asking him to portray one fo… read more
Ford "Snooks" Eaglin's first released recordings, the ones collected here, suggested to the world that Eaglin was a great lost country… read more
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, a… read more

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1 Play track Looking For A Woman
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2 Walking Blues
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3 Play track Careless Love
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4 Play track Saint James Infirmary
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5 Play track High Society
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6 Play track I Got My Questionnaire
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7 Play track Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
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8 Mama, Don't Tear My Clothes
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9 Play track Trouble in Mind
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10 The Lonesome Road
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11 Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles Away From Home)
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12 Play track One Room Country Shack
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13 Play track Who's Been Foolin' You
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14 Play track Drifting Blues
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15 Play track Sophisticated Blues
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16 Play track Come Back, Baby
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17 Play track Rock Island Line
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18 Play track See See Rider
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19 Play track One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
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20 Play track Mean Old World
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21 Play track Mean Old Frisco
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22 Play track Every Day I Have the Blues
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23 Careless Love 2
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24 Drifting Blues 2
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25 The Lonesome Road 2
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Snooks Eaglin (born January 21, 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died February 18, 2009) was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. His real name was Fird Eaglin, Jr. He has also been referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin. His vocal style is reminiscent of Ray Charles; indeed, in the 50s, when he was in his late teens, he would sometimes bill himself as "Little" Ray Charles. He is generally regarded as a New Orleans R&B artist playing a wide range of music from blues, rock 'n' roll, jazz, country to Latin music. In his early years, he also played some straight ah… read more
Snooks Eaglin (born January 21, 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died February 18, 2009) was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. His real name was Fird Eaglin, Jr. He has also been referr… read more
Snooks Eaglin (born January 21, 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died February 18, 2009) was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. His real name was Fird Eaglin, Jr. He has also been referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin. His vocal style … read more

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