Conference napalm::guitar

    Snooks Eaglin has been recording recently for the Black Top label.  He
    has at least three titles out on that label.  He's one of those guys
    like Doc Watson who can't really be pegged; as you said, he isn't
    "pure" blues at all.  Highly recommended to anyone who likes
    blues-based guitar but wants to hear something out of the ordinary.
    
    George Porter is also bassist for the Meters (who recently reformed and
    started touring again).  He has a solo album out on Rounder which
    features Eaglin and Earl King on a few tracks.  He is less well known
    than comtemporaries like Chuck Rainey and Jerry Jemmott, but still an
    awesome fingerstyle funk player who is *extremely* understated.
    
    Both Eaglin and Porter are in the backing band for the Bo Dollis and
    the Wild Magnolias (a N.O. Mardi Gras Indian tribe) album on Rounder.
    
    							Brian
    

    
    I'd said this in AFTER_HOURS, but it bears repeating: one
    of the best CDs I've bought in the last year was Black
    Top Records "Blues-A-Rama". They call it a bargain sampler;
    some 70 minutes of blues by various artists on Black Top
    and its priced around $8. Such a deal. It includes a couple
    of cuts by Snooks as well as Ronnie Earl, James "Thunderbird"
    Davis, Mike Morgan and the Crawl, etc.
    
    Great listening!! Cheap Price!! What'cha waitin' for??!! :-)
    
    DAP
    

    Snooks Eaglin was first recorded by folklorist Harry Oster in New
    Orleans.
    
    I used to have two albums by him, the first made at least as far back
    as 1964, recorded on his back porch by the sound of it (birds singing,
    traffic going by) and the second called New Orleans Street Singer.
    
    Both were acoustic, six and twelve string guitar and show him to be one
    of the great new generation bluesmen.
    
    Much of these two albums is now available on cd. 
    
    Forget what he is doing now.... listen to his early stuff. You will be
    very impressed.
    
    
    andy 

    Re: .3
    
    I *was* impressed by his current stuff...should I lie down before I
    listen to those old Prestige sides?  8^)  8^)  8^)

    
    
    Re - .1
    
    If you have never heard his early stuff, yes I think you should.
    
    He is a great 12 player - listen to Maleguena (sp?) and his 6 string
    version of "When Shadows Fall".
    
    I was learning acoustic blues guitar in 1964 by listening to records
    and discovering Snooks was the best thing I did.
    
    Improved my playing no end :-)
    
    
    andy
    

Ditto .0, I was in NO in 1990 & went (fortuneatly got dragged by blues hound
tom collentine) to tippitina's for some black-top anniversary party. snooks was 
there (along with a host of other cookin' bands & musicians) & i was
knocked out by how cool this old goat was.   he was wailin.
the song that impressed me the most (believe it or not) was
his rendition of (i dunno the title, but milli-vanilli had it on their ill-fated
album) "it's your thing, do whatcha wanna do"...(whatever).

he got to rockin' back and forth so hard in this straight back chair he
was sitting in that the bass player came over & stodd behind him
ready to catch him!

anyway...next day i bought remastered snooks album on cd which wasn't as
good as live, but what the hey?

(that same night at tips i shared drinks with Mac Rebbenack, also known as
Dr. John...  if you call standing at the bar and having him burp in your
face sharing a drink...) :-)

    Yeah I heard him do that tune ("Its your Thing") and I 
    wondered if its the same tune that the Rebirth Brass Band
    plays called "Do Whatcha Wanna"? 
    
    It was definately rockin. 
    
    Dave