Snooks Eaglin

Let Me Go Home Whiskey: Snooks Eaglin

Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008

List (Almost Final)

Honey, Where You Been So Long? (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008

These are the tracks that have come in since the last list was posted, I’ve made a few corrections to the first list as well. I still need help tracking dates, especially on the primary list - any help would be wonderful. I haven’t decided if I’m going to separate The Gambler’s Blues away from [...]

Ready for action

The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008

It's just two weeks until my girlfriend and I go off to the States and things are looking good. In fact there's so much going on that we will need a rest when I get back by the look of it. I've been checking out the New Orleans music scene while we're there and keep unearthing more and more goodies. Quite apart from the juicy line ups at the Ponderosa Stomp http://www.ponderosastomp.com/ and Jazzfest...

S4,E23: 11/19/07 (SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED BY ROB WALKER; Nothing but Saint James Infirmary!

DATA news (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008

(SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED BY ROB WALKER ST. JAMES INFIRMARY EPISODE!) In this episode, prolific writer Rob Walker ( NO Notes , NY Times Magazine: Consumed Columnist , murketing.com , and book ) takes us on a guided tour of his favorite song: "Saint James Infirmary." First up, the quintessential rendition of "St. James Infirmary" by Louis Armstrong which can be found on any umber of compilations ( eMusic...

Celebrity Birthdays

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 20-26:

The Wild Magnolias - Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right) (Barclay 30)

the "A" side (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007

Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right) When my partner Dan Phillips emailed me just three days ago to tell me that Willie Tee was hospitalized with terminal cancer, I couldn't believe it. As Dan had reported only five weeks before, Willie's brother Earl Turbinton (aka the African Cowboy ) had lost his long battle with cancer himself on August 3rd. It seemed positively unthinkable that this could be happening....

AL COPLEY & HAL SINGER: Royal Blue

BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 28/07/2007

Review by Jason Ankeny Royal Blue pairs Al Copley, an original member of Roomful of Blues, with Hal Singer, who worked with Duke Ellington, Wynonie Harris and T-Bone Walker and notched some hits during the 1940s. Recorded in New Orleans with Duke Robillard and Snooks Eaglin on guitar, the record flirts with both small-band, jazzy tunes like "That's Hal" and "Morning, Noon and Night" and grittier ensemble...