Folkways Records released New Orleans Street Singer in 1959 and the album set the world of folk and acoustic blues fans on fire. Snooks Eaglin was in the early stages of his long R&B career when folklorist Harry Oster heard him playing solo on the streets of the French Quarter. That very recording, presented here with 7 previously unreleased tracks, captured Eaglin’s genius and elevated him to the pantheon of eccentric, uncategorizable guitar virtuosos. 32-page booklet. 25 classic tracks. 68 minutes.
1 Looking for a Woman
2 Walking Blues*
3 Careless Love
4 Saint James Infirmary
5 High Society
6 I Got My Questionnaire
7 Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
8 Mama, Don’t Tear My Clothes*
9 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(LP Take)
25 Look Down That Lonesome Road 2*