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 01. "Looking for a woman" 02. "Walking blues" 03. "Careless love" 04. "Saint James Infirmary" 05. "High society" 06. "I got my questionnaire" 07. "Let me go home, Whiskey" 08. "Mama, Don't Tear My Clothes" 09. "Trouble in mind" 10. "The lonesome road" 11. "Helping hand (A thousand miles away from home)" 12. "One room country shack" 13. "Who's been foolin' you" 14. "Drifting blues" 15. "Sophisticated blues" 16. "Come back, baby" 17. "Rock island line" 18. "See see rider" 19. "One scotch, one bourbon, one beer" 20. "Mean old world" 21. "Mean old Frisco" 22. "Every day I have the blues" 23. "Careless love 2" 24. "Drifting blues 2" 25. "The lonesome road 2"
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Reissue W/ 8 Bonus Tracks |
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| Description: | Snooks Eaglin had a reputation as a â??Human Jukeboxâ? 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 Louisianaâ??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. - REISSUE W/8 BONUS TRACKSRecorded and produced in New Orleans, March, 1958.
Originally issued in 1959 by Moses Asch on the Folkways label as 'Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer' (FA 2476).
Tracks 2, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 23 & 25 are previously unreleased.
?© 2005 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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