Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer (blues acoustic)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

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SNOOKS EAGLIN NEW ORLEANS STREET SINGER
Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Original Year 1959
Format:Mp3@320

Ford Snooks Eaglins 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 RB 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 for the sake of the recording. Either way, New Orleans Street Singer was a revelation when it was released by Folkways Records a year later in 1959, presenting to the world a gifted guitar player and a naturally soulful singer who brought a kind of jazzy New Orleans feel and groove to the folk-blues standards he was covering. The album is no less a revelation in the 21st century, although hindsight allows listeners to realize that the folk stance was probably more Osters preference than Eaglins. The guitar work is quick and fluid, with lead bursts that surprise and delight, continually settling on unexpected but highly effective chordal resolves, and the singing throughout is steady and informed, sounding a bit like Ray Charles, with tinges of both gospel and jazz phrasing. In Eaglins hands traditional fare like Mama, Dont You Tear My Clothes (a variant of Baby, Let Me Follow You Down) become reborn and re-formed into definitive versions. ~ Steve Leggett


Tracklist:

01. Looking For A Woman (2:29)
02. Walking Blues (3:02)
03. Careless Love (2:36)
04. Saint James Infirmary (2:23)
05. High Society (1:37)
06. I Got My Questionnaire (3:24)
07. Let Me Go Home, Whiskey (2:56)
08. Mama, Dont Tear My Clothes (2:11)
09. Trouble In Mind (2:50)
10. The Lonesome Road (1:50)
11. Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles Away From Home) (2:15)
12. One Room Country Shack (3:06)
13. Whos Been Foolin You (2:26)
14. Drifting Blues (3:40)
15. Sophisticated Blues (2:09)
16. Come Back, Baby (2:09)
17. Rock Island Line (2:08 )
18. See See Rider (3:12)
19. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (2:46)
20. Mean Old World (3:51)
21. Mean Old Frisco (2:37)
22. Every Day I Have The Blues (3:57)
23. Careless Love 2 (2:34)
24. Drifting Blues 2 (3:50)
25. The Lonesome Road 2 (1:27)

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