Illustrated Snooks Eaglin discography

Snooks Eaglin 1958/59
source: Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40165
photographer: Harry Oster "He's a singer / entertainer
who can do almost anything
you want to request,
even including a few blues"
Sam Charters 1972

Snooks Eaglin
Fird [sic] Eaglin Jr. a.k.a. "The Human Jukebox"
b. January 21, 1937 in New Orleans, Louisiana
d. February 18, 2009 at Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana
buried at Providence Memorial Park, Metairie, Jefferson Parish, LA (same as James Booker)
discography

Snooks Eaglin c. 1987
source: Black Top press foto; photographer: Rick Olivier

year
of release

title / label / notes

1953?

BLIND GUITAR FERD And THE NEW ORLEANS WONDERS

- Jesus Will Fix It For You @ youtube
- Traveling On @ youtube

rec. 1952/53 (?) in New Orleans, LA; Ford Eaglin, voc; p; dr; voc group

Wonder 7606

2/1954

SUGAR BOY and his Cane Cutters

- Jock-A-Mo (U 7581; later remastered 9420) @ youtube @ Spotify
- You, You, You (U 7582; later remastered 9421) @ Spotify

rec. c. November 1953 in New Orleans, LA; James Crawford, voc, p; Big Boy Myles, tb; Alfred Bernard,, David Lastie, saxes; Snooks Eaglin, g; Frank Fields, b; Eric Warner, dr; Sylvester Saunders, voc chant

Checker 787

Chess 2ACMB-209
= Chess CH-2-9215

- Love, Love, Love (9416) @ Spotify
- Troubled Mind Blues (9417) @ Spotify
- Oo Wee Sugar (9418) @ Spotify
- There Goes My Baby (9419) @ Spotify
- You Call Everybody Sweetheart (9422) # @ youtube @ Spotify
- If I Love You Darling (9423) # @ youtube @ Spotify

prob. same session as above (= rec. c. November 1953 in New Orleans, LA); James Crawford, voc, p; Big Boy Myles, tb; Alfred Bernard,, David Lastie, saxes; Snooks Eaglin, g, # voc; Frank Fields, b; Eric Warner, dr; Sylvester Saunders, voc chant

Checker unissued

Chess 2ACMB-209
= Chess CH-2-9215

- Please Believe Me (9365) # * @ Spotify
- Long Lost Stranger (9366) # * @ Spotify
- Rollin' (9367) @ Spotify
- Night Rider (instr.) (9368) * @ Spotify
- For Me (9369) * @ Spotify
- You Know I Love You (9373) * @ Spotify
- Stop (9374) * @ Spotify
- Watch Her, Whip Her (9375) * @ Spotify
- Oh No (9376) @ Spotify

rec. 1954 in New Orleans, LA; James Crawford, voc, p; unkn. tp; Big Boy Myles, tb; Alfred Bernard, David Lastie, saxes; Snooks Eaglin, g, # voc; Frank Fields, b; Eric Warner, dr; # Slim Saunders, voc

Checker unissued

* Chess 2ACMB-209
= Chess CH-2-9215

1958

Music Of The World's Peoples Vol. 4

Boys' Circumcision Song - Ituri Forest Pygmies
Gamelon
Yodelling Solo
Yaqui Dance: Instrumental
Folk Song
Vocal and Instrumental
Dance: Instrumental
Ceylon
Vocal and Instrumental
Vocal
Vocal
Christmas Song
Dance: Instrumental
Dance: Vocal and Instrumental
Walking Tune: Instrumental
Classical Song: Vocal and Instrumental
Classical Song: Vocal and Instrumental
Wedding Song
Blues "This Mean Old World" (3:50) - Snooks Eaglin # @ youtube

# rec. 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

Music of Venezuela, Ituri Pygmies, Borneo, U.S.S.R., Switzerland, Mexican Yaqui, Estonia, Ceylon, Austria, Rumania, Samoa, Bretagne, Portugal, Java, Armenia, Korea, Sweden, USA, Kurdistan; compiled by Henry Cowell

2 records boxed set
notes by Henry Cowell

Folkways FE 4507 (US 1958)

= Folkways FE 4507 (US 1967)

= Folkways CD 4507 (US 2012)

1958

Folk Music USA. Vol. 1

- John Henry - Virgil Perkins, Jack Sims
- Grizzly Bear: Negro Prison Camp Worksong
- Blowing The Train - Percy Randolph @ Spotify
- Six Thousand Miles From Nowhere [= One Room Country Shack] - Snooks Eaglin # @ Spotify
- Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson
- Amasee: Children's Ring Game Song

- Spooky Drums - Warren "Baby" Dodds
- Black Jack Davy - Mary Jo Davis
- Drunken Sailor: Dulcimer Medley
- Ellen Smith - Pete Steele
- Run, Run - Elizabeth Cotton [sic]
- Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Rolling River: Country Dance

- Allons Danser Colinda: Cajun Dance - Roy Brule
- Sourwood Mountain: Square Dance Tune - Hobart Smith
- Diamond Joe: Cowboy Song - Cisco Houston
- Siete Leguas: Corrido - Peter Hurd
- Matachines Dance
- Moonlight Song: Taos Indian Serenade

- War Dance Song
- Esta Navidad: Puerto Rican Christmas Song
- Aguinaldo Cagueno: Puerto Rican Song
- Rocky Road: Shape-Note Singing - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- If We Never Meet Again
- Inviting-In Dance Song

# rec. January 21, 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

edited by Harold Courlander

DLP
notes by Charles Edward Smith

Folkways FE 4530 (US 1958)

- Mean Old Frisco []
- Careless Love #
- Careless Love (alt tk) *
- Come Back, Baby #
- Come Back, Baby (alt tk) *
- High Society (instr) #
- Let Me Go Home Whisky #
- Trouble In Mind #
- St. James Infirmary #
- I Got My Questionaire #
- Driftin' Blues (The Drifter Blues) #
- Drifting Blues (alt tk) *
- Rock Island Line #
- Every Day I Have The Blues #
- Sophisticated Blues (instr) #
- See See Rider #
- One Scotch, One Bourbon (One Beer) #
- A Thousand Miles From Home #
- I'm Looking For A Woman #
- Look Down That Lonesome Road #
- The Lonesome Road (alt tk) *

rec. February 1/2 or March 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

[] Folkways FA 2461

# Folkways FA 2476

* Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40165

1959

The Music Of New Orleans Volume One
The Music of the Streets: The Music of Mardi Gras

Vegetable Peddlers - Street Calls: Watermelons, Bananas
Sister Dora Alexander - Let God's Moon Alone
Sister Dora Alexander - Times Done Changed
Percy Randolph - Street Calls: Watermelons, Black Berries, Peaches # @ youtube @ Spotify
James Mitchell - Musical Saw: What A Friend We Have In Jesus, My Old Kentucky Home, When The Saints Go Marching Home
Percy Randolph - Shoe Shine - Shine @ youtube @ Spotify

Frank Amica - Guitar Solo - Liebestraum
Shoeshine Boy - Shoe Shine - Hambone
Blind Snooks Eaglin - Mean Old Frisco # @ youtube @ Spotify
The Indians - Dawn: To-Wa-Bac-A-Way, The Indian Race
The Indians - Early Morning: Red, White, And Blue Got The Golden Band
Hank - Noon: On Mardi Gras Day
Brass Band - Late Afternoon: The Uptown Dances, Bourbon Street Parade
Unknown Artist - Night: The Parade Of The Krewe Of Momus, When The Saints Go Marching In, Margie, And South Rampart Street Parade

rec. 1956-1958; prod. by Samuel Barclay Charters
# rec. February 1/2 or March, 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

notes by Samuel Barclay Charters

Folkways FA 2461 (US 1959)

= Topic 12T53 (UK 1959)

= Disques Ricordi FA 2461 (Serie Folkways) (Fr 196?)

1959

Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer

- Careless Love
- Come Back, Baby
- High Society
- Let Me Go Home Whisky
- Trouble In Mind
- St. James Infirmary
- I Got My Questionaire
- The Drifter Blues

- Rock Island Line
- Every Day I Have The Blues
. Sophisticated Blues
- See See Rider
- One Scotch, One Bourbon
- A Thousand Miles From Home
- I'm Looking For A Woman @ youtube
- Look Down That Lonesome Road

originally unissued tracks from same 1958 session:
- Mean Old Frisco [Folkways FA 2461]
- Careless Love (alt tk) [Folkways CD 40165]
- Come Back Baby (alt tk) [Folkways CD 40165]
- Drifting Blues (alt tk) [Folkways CD 40165]
- The Lonesome Road (alt tk) [Folkways CD 40165]

rec. February 1/2 or March, 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g
Folkways FA 2476 ed. by Kenneth S. Goldstein
photos by Harry Oster
the photo used on the front cover of Storyville 670119 is flipped - see original photo at the bottom of this page

notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Folkways FA 2476 (US 1959) "New Orleans Street Singer"

notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

= Storyville SLP 119 (Denmark 1964) "New Orleans Street Singer"

notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

= Storyville 670119 (UK / Germany 1967) "Blues From New Orleans Vol. 1"

gatefold LP
notes (in French) "d'après" Kenneth S. Goldstein

= Le Chant Du Monde FWX 52476 (Fr 1968) "New Orleans Street Singer"

gatefold LP
notes (in French) "d'après" Kenneth S. Goldstein

= Le Chant Du Monde FWX 52476 (Fr 1977?) "New Orleans Street Singer"

(=) Storyville STCD 8023 "New Orleans Street Singer"

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40165

Storyville Records discography

- Possum Up A Simmon Tree #
- That's All Right || #
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop
- I Ain't Gonna Study War No More (Down By The Riverside)
- Model T And The Train #
- Jack O'Diamonds
- Death Valley Blues ||
- This Train
- Bottle Up And Go
- Mardi Gras Mambo
- Rock Me Mama ||
- John Henry
- Locomotive Train
- I Had A Little Woman ||
- Don't Leave Me Mama (Rock Me Mama)
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar ||
- This Train (alt tk) ||
- Bottle Up And Go (alt tk) ||
- Mardi Gras Mambo (alt tk) ||
- I've Had My Fun ||
- Bottle Up And Go (tk 4) ||
- Going Back To New Orleans ||
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes ||
- Walking Blues
- Mailman Passed (And Didn't Leave No News) ||
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans

rec. 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g, wb, tom-toms; Lucius Bridges, wb, voc; Percy Randolph, hca, voc, washb

# Folk-Lyric FL 107

# Folkways FA 2476

* Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40165

- Jack O'Diamonds
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop #

rec. 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Percy Randolph, voc, hca; unknown, tom toms, # slapping shoe-shine rag

Folk-Lyric FL 107

1959

Snooks Eaglin / Lucius Bridges / Brother Randolph
New Orleans Washboard Blues resp. Possum Up A Simmon Tree resp. New Orleans Blues

Folk-Lyric FL 107 / Arhoolie 2014 / Storyville SLP 179 tracks (15):
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree * @ youtube @ Spotify
- That's All Right ## @ youtube @ Spotify
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop {} @ youtube @ Spotify
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- I Ain't Gonna Study War No More (Down By The Riverside) # || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Model T And The Train () @ youtube @ Spotify
- Jack O'Diamonds [] @ youtube @ Spotify
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Death Valley Blues # || @ youtube @ Spotify
- This Train ### @ youtube @ Spotify

- Bottle Up And Go *** @ youtube @ Spotify
- Mardi Gras Mambo **** @ youtube @ Spotify
- Rock Me Mama || # @ youtube @ Spotify
- John Henry * @ youtube @ Spotify
- Locomotive Train (instr) () @ youtube @ Spotify
- I Had A Little Woman # || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Don't Leave Me Mama (Rock Me Mama no. 2) # @ youtube @ Spotify

Arhoolie CD 348 tracks (23):
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- I've Had My Fun || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Bottle Up And Go || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Walking Blues [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- That's All Right || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop {} [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Down By The Riverside || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Model T And The Train # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Jack O'Diamonds [] [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Rock Me Mama (Don't Leave Me Mama) || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- John Henry # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Locomotive Train # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- I Had A Little Woman || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Rock Me Mama # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Mailman Passed || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Going Back To New Orleans || [previously unissued in the U.S.] @ Spotify
- Mardi Gras Mambo # || [previously unissued take] @ Spotify
- Bottle Up & Go # || [previously unissued take] @ Spotify
- This Train # || [previously unissued take] @ Spotify

P-Vine PCD-93733 tracks (all in all 26):
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree #
- That's All Right ||
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop {}
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- I Ain't Gonna Study War No More (Down By The Riverside)
- Model T And The Train #
- Jack O'Diamonds []
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Death Valley Blues ||
- This Train
- Bottle Up And Go
- Mardi Gras Mambo #
- Rock Me Mama || #
- John Henry #
- Locomotive Train #
- I Had A Little Woman ||
- Don't Leave Me Mama (Rock Me Mama)
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar || [bonus track]
- This Train (alt tk) || [bonus track]
- Bottle Up And Go (alt tk) || # [bonus track]
- Mardi Gras Mambo (alt tk) || # [bonus track]
- I've Had My Fun || [bonus track]
- Bottle Up And Go (tk 4) || [bonus track]
- Going Back To New Orleans || [bonus track]
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes || [bonus track]
- Walking Blues [bonus track]
- Mailman Passed (And Didn't Leave No News) || [bonus track]
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans [bonus track]

rec. 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster & Richard Allen

# Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g
## Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g; Percy Randolph, hca; Lucius Bridges, wb
### Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g; Percy Randolph, hca; Lucius Bridges, voc, wb

* Lucius Bridges, voc; Snooks Eaglin, 6-str g; Percy Randolph, wb
** Lucius Bridges, voc, g, wb; Snooks Eaglin, 6-str g, || 12-str g, wb; Percy Randolph, wb, ** hca
*** Lucius Bridges, voc; Percy Randolph, hca; Snooks Eaglin, wb
**** Lucius Bridges, voc; Snooks Eaglin, voc; Percy Randolph, hca

{} Percy Randolph, voc, slapping shoe-shine rag
[] Percy Randolph, hca, voc; unknown, tom tom (actually the head of a banjo)
() Percy Randolph, voc, hca; Snooks Eaglin, 6-str g, hca; Lucius Bridges, wb

Folk-Lyric FL 107 (I) drawing by Norman Gross
Folk-Lyric FL 107 (II) drawing by Malcolm Quantrill
Arhoolie/Storyville photo by Harry Oster

notes by Harry Oster "Folk-Lyric Records, 1945 Bay St., Baton Rouge, LA"

Folk-Lyric FL 107 (I) (US 1959) "New Orleans Washboard Blues"

notes by Harry Oster "Folk-Lyric Recording Co., 3323 Morning Glory, Baton Rouge, La."

Folk-Lyric FL 107 (II) (US 1960) "Possum Up A Simmon Tree"

notes by Harry Oster with some editing by Chris Strachwitz

= Arhoolie 2014 (US 1971) "Possum Up A Simmon Tree"

notes by Harry Oster

= Storyville SLP 179 (Denmark 1975) "New Orleans Blues"

(=) Arhoolie CD 348 (US 1991) "Country Boy Down In New Orleans"

notes by Harry Oster with some editing by Chris Strachwitz

(=) P-Vine PCD-93733 (Jp 2013) "Possum Up A Simmon Tree"

Folk Lyric / Harry Oster discography
Storyville Records discography
Arhoolie Records discography
Percy Randolph discography

1960

Ford Eaglin

- Yours Truly (IM 2618) @ youtube @ Spotify
- Nobody Knows (IM 2619) @ youtube

rec. April 25, 1960 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; prob. Frank Fields, b; Robert French, dr

Imperial 5671

1960

Ford Eaglin

- That Certain Door (IM 2620) @ youtube
- By The Water (IM 2621) @ youtube

rec. April 25, 1960 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; prob. Frank Fields, b; Robert French, dr

Imperial 5692

1960

Snooks Eaglin: Message From New Orleans

- Mamma, Don't You Tear My Clothes
- Walking Blues
- Mean Old World
- Give Me The Old Box-Car [] @ youtube
- Every Day Blues °° @ youtube
- I Had My Fun °
- Blue Shadows Blues °° @ youtube
- She's A Black Rat °

- Who's Been Foolin' You?
- I Must See Jesus || °
- Fly Right Baby ||
- That's All Right || °
- Bottle Up And Go || °
- Who Can Your Good Man Be ||
- Don't You Lie To Me ||
- Malaguena || ° @ youtube

rec. 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g; [] unknown, washb

° never re-released on CD

°° never released anywhere else, neither on LP nor on CD

notes by Tony Standish

Heritage HLP 1002 (UK 1960)

Heritage Records discography

1961

Snooks Eaglin And His 12-String Guitar
Blues Anthology Vol. 6

- That's All Right [Folk-Lyric 107]
- I Had A Little Woman [Folk-Lyric 107]

- Death Valley Blues [Folk-Lyric 107]
- Rock Me Mama [Folk-Lyric 107]

rec. 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 12-str g

review in Jazz Journal 2/61 by Tony Standish

7 inch 45 rpm EP

Storyville SEP 386 (Denmark 1961)

7 inch 45 rpm EP

= Storyville SEP 386 (UK 1961)

Storyville Records discography

11b

196?

SNOOKS EAGLIN

- Country Boy
- Alberta

rec. 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

review in Jazz Journal 2/61 by Tony Standish

7 inch 45 rpm

Storyville A 45056 (Storyville Blues Anthology Vol. 6) (Denmark 196?)

Storyville Records discography

1961

Ford Eaglin

- If I Could (IM 2882) (F. Eaglin & D. Bartholomew) @ youtube
- Guess Who (IM 2883) (J. Belvin & Joe Anne Belvin) @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- See See Rider (IM 2884) [Imperial LM-94001]
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter (IM 2885) [Capitol CDP 833918]

# rec. February 3, 1961 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; prob. James Booker, p; prob. Frank Fields, b; Robert French, dr

Imperial 5736

1961

Ford Eaglin

- My Head Is Spinnin' (IM 3037) @ youtube
- Travelin' Mood (IM 3039) @ youtube

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- I've Been Walkin' (IM 3036) [EMI-Am LP 17265] @ youtube
- Would You (IM 3038) [Capitol CDP 833918] @ youtube

rec. June 27, 1961 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; tp; prob. Meyer Kennedy, as; Clarence Hall, Warren Payne, ts; Clarence Ford, bs; James Booker, p; Frank Fields, b; Joe "Smokey" Johnson, dr

Imperial 5765

1962

Ford Eaglin

- Goin' To The River (IM 3207) # @ youtube @ Spotify
- I'm Slippin' In (IM 3208) @ Spotify

rec. October 30, 1961 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; tp; prob. Meyer Kennedy, as; Clarence Hall, Warren Payne, ts; Clarence Ford, bs; James Booker, p; Frank Fields, b; Joe "Smokey" Johnson, dr; # fem chorus

Imperial 5802

1962

Ford Eaglin

- Nothing Sweet As You (IM 3209) @ youtube
- Don't Slam That Door (IM 3210) @ youtube @ Spotify

Imperial 5823

1962

Ford Eaglin

- People Are Talking (IM 4245) # @ Spotify
- Reality (IM 4248) @ Spotify

rec. June 12, 1962 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; tp; prob. Meyer Kennedy, as; Clarence Hall, Warren Payne, ts; Clarence Ford, bs; James Booker, p; Frank Fields, b; Joe "Smokey" Johnson, dr; # voc group

Imperial 5866

11/1962

Ford Eaglin

- Long Gone (IM 4246) @ Spotify
- Willy Lee (IM 4247) @ youtube @ Spotify

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- If I Lost You Baby (IM 4897) [Capitol CDP 833918]
- You Call Everybody Sweetheart But Me (IM 4898) [Chess 2ACMB-209; Capitol CDP 833918]

Imperial 5890

1962

Blind Snooks Eaglin: That's All Right

- Don't You Tear My Clothes || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Mailman Passed || @ youtube @ Spotify
- I'm A Country Boy || @ youtube @ Spotify
- I Got A Woman @ youtube @ Spotify
- Alberta || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Brown Skinned Woman || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Don't You Lie To Me || @ youtube @ Spotify

- That's All Right @ youtube @ Spotify
- Goin' Down Slow || @ youtube @ Spotify
- Bottle Up And Go || @ youtube @ Spotify
- The Walkin' Blues @ youtube @ Spotify
- One More Drink @ youtube @ Spotify
- Fly Right, Baby || [omitted from Fantasy F24716 gatefold track list] @ youtube @ Spotify

rec. 1961 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein
Fantasy F24716 re-mastered 1973 by Mike Reese

notes by Harry Oster

Bluesville 1046 (US 1962)

notes by Harry Oster

= XTRA 5051 (UK 1968)

= P-Vine PCD-1046 (Jp)

= OBCCD-568-2

notes by Robert Shelton

= Fantasy F24716 (1973) (along with BVLP 1026 "Robert Pete Williams") "Rural Blues"

= Ace CD CHD 705 (UK) "Rural Blues"

Bluesville Records discography
XTRA Records discography
OBC Records discography
Robert Pete Williams discography

1962

Ford Eaglin: Un Nouveau Génie

- I'm Slippin' In [Imperial 5802]
- Yours Truly [Imperial 5671]

- Don't Slam That Door [Imperial 5823]
- Going To The River [Imperial 5802]

7 inch 45 rpm EP
notes by B.B.

Polydor 27738 (Fr)

5/1963

Ford Eaglin

- Little Eva (IM 5607) # @ youtube
- Cover Girl (IM 5608) @ Spotify

originally unissued tracks from same session:
- Is It True (IM 5609) [Capitol CDP 833918]
- Down Yonder (IM 5610) [Capitol CDP 833918]

rec. April 2, 1963 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; tp; # prob. Meyer Kennedy, as; # Clarence Hall, Warren Payne, ts; # Clarence Ford, bs; James Booker, p; Frank Fields, b; Joe "Smokey" Johnson, dr

Imperial 5946

20a

1963

Snooks Eaglin's New Orleans Blues
- Don't You Tear My Clothes
- That's All Right
- I Must See Jesus

- Bottle Up & Go
- Who Can Your Good Man Be
- Walkin' Blues

rec. 1959 [not "~~c. 1961~~", as mentioned on back cover!] in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g

33 1/3 rpm EP
notes (early 1963) by Tony Standish

Heritage H-301 (UK 1963)

Heritage Records discography

20b

1964

"LIL" SNOOK

- Sweetness (Ferd Eaglin) (154-1123) @ youtube
- Cheetah (Gustave) (154-1122) @ youtube

rec. 1964 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; unknown accompaniment

Fun 303 [Eddie Bo's label]

1964

Country Spirituals

Snooks Eaglin
- Down By The Riverside (I Ain't Gonna Study War No More) (2:30) # [Folk-Lyric 107] @ youtube
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Whe I See The Blood
Della Williams
- Motherless Children
New Orleans Street Gospel Singers
- I Will Be Your God
Otis Webster
- In My Saviours Care
Charles Henderson, Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- Jesus On The Main Line

Rev. Pearly Brown
- If I Never See You Anymore
Andy Mosely, George Williams & Hogman Maxey
- I Know I Got Religion
Otis Webster
- This Little Light Of Mine
Angola Quartet
- Be With Me Jesus
Robert Pete Williams
- I'm Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray
Rev. Pearly Brown
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
Butch Cage, Willie Thomas & crowd
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again @ youtube

# rec. June 1, 1959 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snoks [sic] Eaglin, voc, 12-str g

notes by Harry Oster

Storyville SLP 135 (Denmark 1964)

Storyville Records discography

1964

Snooks Eaglin: Blues From New Orleans Vol. 2

- Mailman Passed And He Didn't Leave No News @ Spotify
- I Must See Jesus || °° @ youtube @ Spotify
- She's One Black Rat || °° @ Spotify
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar || * @ Spotify
- Don't You Lie To Me || °° @ Spotify
- Well I Had My Fun °° @ Spotify

- Browns Skin Woman || °° @ Spotify
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes || °° @ Spotify
- Who's Been Foolin' You || °° @ Spotify
- When Shadows Fall (instr) °° @ Spotify
- One More Drink || °° @ Spotify
- I Got A Woman °° @ Spotify
- Mama Talk To Your Daughter || # @ Spotify

rec. in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g, || 12-str g
* rec. in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 12-str g; Percy Randolph, hca; Lucius Bridges, wb
# rec. in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Lucius Bridges, voc, wb; Percy Randolph, hca; Snooks Eaglin, g

°° re-released 1994 on Storyville STCD 8023 "New Orleans Street Singer"

notes by Harry Oster

Storyville SLP 140

notes by Harry Oster

Storyville SLP 140 (Fr 1964) (festival series)

(=) Storyville STCD 8023 "New Orleans Street Singer"

Storyville Records discography

1964

Snooks Eaglin: Portraits In Blues Vol. 1

- Country Boy
- Fly Right Back Baby °°
- Well I Had My Fun
- Bottle It Up And Go
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes
- I Don't Know °°
- Mean Old World °°

- Alberta °°
- That's Allright °°
- Malaguena °°
- When They Ring Them Golden Bells # °°
- Went Out Walkin'
- Remember Me °°

rec. 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; # Lucius Bridges, g; # Percy Randolph, washb
°° re-released 1994 on Storyville STCD 8023 "New Orleans Street Singer"

the photo used on the front cover of Storyville SLP 146 (reissue) is flipped - see original photo at the bottom of this page

notes by Paul Oliver

Storyville SLP 146 (Denmark 1964)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 146 (Fr 196?) (festival series)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville SLP 146 (Germany 196?)

notes by Paul Oliver

= Storyville 670146 (Germany 19??)

= Teichiku ULS-1811-R (Jp 1975) "Snooks Eaglin"

notes (1989) by Rainer Bratfisch

= Amiga 856 282 (GDR 1989) "Blues Collection #12"

(=) Storyville STCD 8023 "New Orleans Street Singer"

Storyville Records discography

1965

Music Down Home
An Introduction to Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.

When life is big...
- Take This Hammer - Lead Belly (1:38)
- Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (1:18)
- Children's Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson (0:47)
- Complaint Call - Enoch Brown (0:44)
- Water On The Wheel - Annie Dodson (0:47)
- Railroad 1 - Rich Amerson (1:26)
- Move Members Move - Rosie Hibler and Family (1:57)
Go pray ye
- Go Pray Ye - Annie Dodson (2:32)
- The Day Is Past - Dorothy Melton (1:56)
- Prayer Song - Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward (2:37)
- King David - Rich Amerson and Earthy Anne Coleman (4:30)

- Rockin' Jerusalem - Fisk Jubilee Singers (2:13)
- Just Got Over At Last - Little Brother Montgomery (2:23)
When life is young
- Mama's Goin' To Buy Him A Little Lap Dog - Vera Hall Ward (0:48)
- Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard and Brother Rabbit - Rich Amerson (1:59)
- I'm Goin' Up North Satisfied - Children of East York School (1:25)
Work songs
- Railroad 2 - Rich Amerson (1:53)
- Lost John - Sonny Terry (3:08)
- Lost John - Prison Farm Work Group (4:55)

Blues
- I'm Goin' To Pack Up My Things And Back Down That Sunny Road I'm Goin' - Mozelle Moore (3:13)
- Careless Love - Brownie McGhee (3:18)
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Snooks Eaglin (2:54)
- You're My Man - Slick Chick Blues - Victoria Spivey (4:36)
- I Wonder When I'll Get To Be Called A Man - Big Bill Broonzy (2:20)
- Mule Ridin', Talking Blues - Big Bill Broonzy (3:43)
- Black Woman - Rich Amerson (4:55)

Instrumental sounds
- Old John Booker - You Call That Gone - Gus Cannon (1:45)
- John Henry - Furry Lewis (4:48)
- Take Your Fingers Off It - Gus Cannon, Charlie Burse, and Will Shade2:53)
- 44 Blues - Willie Thomas and Butch Cage (4:11)
- Sonny's Jump - Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (3:08)
Two songs of Alabama
- Birmingham Jail - Lead Belly (2:30)
- I'm So Glad - Montgomery Gospel Trio (2:34)

ed. by Charles Edward Smith
cover design by Ronald Clyne; illustration by Philip Evergood

review at record-fiend.blogspot.de

DLP
notes by Charles Edward Smith

Folkways FA 2691 (US 1965)

custom CD from www.folkways.si.edu

1966

Songs Of Street And Road
Folk Music Of The World

60's Harlem youths
- Rhythmic & Vocal Improv.
- Ole
Shoeshine boy raps
- Shoe Shine Shakedown
New Orleans street peddlers
- Street Cries
Percy Randolph
- Shine
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Mean Old Frisco
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Stewball
- Slop Boogie

Cisco Houston
- 900 Miles
- The Rambler
- Hobo Bill
Sonny Terry
- My Baby Leaving
Sticks McGhee
- Drink of Wine
John Cohen
- Keep On Moving

collection of material originally released on various Folkways LPs
ed. by Clement J. McNaspy; artwork by Frank Biondo

ARS AR 1047 (US 1966) (American Record Society) (Music for Everyman series)

10/1968

Goin' Up The Country
Rural Blues Vol. 1

Nathaniel Terry - Take It Easy [Imperial 5150] @ youtube
Manny Nichols - Forgive Me [Imperial 5173] @ youtube
Country Jim - Avenue Breakdown [Imperial 5062] @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - Disgusted [previously unissued] @ youtube
Thunder 'N Lightnin' - West Coast Blues [Aladdin 165] @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins - Howling Wolf Blues [previously unissued] @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - Nobody Knows [Imperial 5671] @ youtube

Nathaniel Terry - Don't Know Why [Imperial 5150] @ youtube
Manny Nichols - Worried Life [Imperial 5173] @ youtube
Country Jim - Phillipine [sic] Blues (alt tk) [previously unissued] @ youtube
Lil' Son Jackson - Thrill Me Baby (alt tk) [previously unissued] @ youtube
Thunder 'N Lightnin' - Can't Do Like You Used To [Aladdin 165] @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins - Can't Get That Woman Off My Mind [previously unissued] @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - By The Water [Imperial 5692] @ youtube

reissue coordination by Steve LaVere

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

Imperial LM-94000 (US 10/1968)

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

= Liberty LBL 83213E (UK 1968)

= Liberty 2C062-90.185 (Fr 1969) (manufactured by Pathé Marconi)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Beat Goes On BGOCD 384 (UK 1998) (along with Imperial LM-94001) "Rural Blues, Volumes 1&2" (remastered)

mini LP CD

= Clinck ODR-6610 (Jp 8/2018) "Rural Blues Vol. 1 & Vol. 2"

Imperial/Liberty "Legendary Masters" series discography
Manny Nichols discography
Country Jim (Bledsoe) discography
Lil' Son Jackson discography
Thunder Smith discography
Lightnin' Hopkins discography

1968

Saturday Night Function
Rural Blues Vol. 2

Papa Lightfoot - When The Saints Go Marchin' In [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - Travelin' Mood [Imperial 5765] @ youtube
Boogie Bill Webb - I Ain't For It [Imperial 5257] @ youtube
Clifton Chenier - Country Bred [Post 2010] @ youtube
Slim Harpo - A Man Is Crying [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
J.D. Edwards - Cold In The Evening [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
Boozoo Chavis - Paper In My Shoe [Folk Star 1197, Imperial 5374] @ youtube

Papa Lightfoot - Wine Women Whiskey [Imperial 5289] @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - See See Rider [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
Boogie Bill Webb - Love Me Mama [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
Clifton Chenier - Just A Lonely Boy [Elko unissued] @ youtube
Slim Harpo - Something Inside Me [Imperial unissued] @ youtube
J.D. Edwards - Crying [Imperial 5245] @ youtube
Boozoo Chavis - Boozoo Stomp [Folk Star 1197, Imperial 5374] @ youtube

prod. & coordinated by Steve LaVere

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

Imperial LM-94001 (US 10/1968)

notes (September 1968) by Pete Welding

= Liberty LBL 83214E (UK 1969)

= Liberty C 062-90186 (Fr 1969)

notes by Pete Welding

(=) Beat Goes On BGOCD 384 (UK 1998; along with Imperial LM-94000) "Rural Blues, Volumes 1&2" (remastered)

mini LP CD

= Clinck ODR-6610 (Jp 8/2018) "Rural Blues Vol. 1 & Vol. 2"

Imperial/Liberty "Legendary Masters" series discography
Papa Lightfoot discography
Slim Harpo discography

27a

1968/70

Dirt Blues (Minit MLL/MLS 40005)

Lightnin' Hopkins
- Fast Mail Rambler [Aladdin 204]
- Shotgun [Aladdin 3063]
- My California [Aladdin 3262]
T-Bone Walker
- Glamour Girl
- Love Is Just A Gamble
- I'm About To Lose My Mind
Lil' Son Jackson
- Rockin' & Rollin'

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
- Key To The Highway
- Lose Your Money
- Louise
- Sportin' Life
Luke 'Long Gone' Miles
- Miss Hazel Mae
- Bad Luck
- Long Distance Call

Dirt Blues (Liberty LBS 83404/05 X)

LP 1:
Papa George Lightfoot - Wine, Woman, Whisky
Lightnin' Hopkins - Antoinette's Blues [Vault SLP 129]
The Chambers Brothers - Blues Get Off My Shoulder
Lil' Son Jackson - Disgusted
Slim Harpo - A Man Is Crying
The Robins - Around About Midnight

Fats Domino - Stay Away
Sunnyland Slim - Dust My Broom
George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band - My Babe
T-Bone Walker - I Get So Weary
Big Joe Williams - Oh Baby
George Smith & The Chicago Blues Band - Can't Hold Out Much Longer [World Pacific 21887]

LP 2:
Slim Harpo - Something Inside Me
Papa George Lightfoot - Take It Witcha [Vault LP 130]
The Chambers Brothers - It's All Over Now
Smiley Lewis - Shame, Shame, Shame
Country Jim - Phillipine Blues
Snooks Eaglin - Travellin' Mood

Lightnin' Hopkins - California Mudslide [Vault SLP 129]
Boogie Bill Webb - Boogie
The Jewels - No Shoulder To Cry
Wilson Pickett - If You Need Me
Lightnin' Hopkins - Howling Wolf Blues
Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That

Minit MLL 40005 front cover photography and design by Michael Hasted; Liberty LBS 83404/05 X design by Ulrich Eichberger

same front cover for mono & stereo!

Minit MLL 40005 (mono) (UK 1968) [Liberty subsidiary]

= Minit MLS 40005 (stereo) (UK 1968)

gatefold DLP

Liberty LBS 83404/05 X (stereo) (Germany 1970)

1970

Eddie Bo

- Check Your Bucket - Part I / One @ youtube
- Check Your Bucket - Part II / Two

Eddie Bo, voc, p; Snooks Eaglin, g [?]; b; dr; backgr voc

Bo-Sound BO-5551

= Action ACT 4609 (UK 1973) (Trojan subsidiary)

= Grimm Ben (Jamaica) "Check Yu Bucket" b-side: "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"

1971

Snooks Eaglin: Legacy Of The Blues Vol. 2

- Boogie Children @ Spotify
- Who's Loving You Tonight @ Spotify
- Lucille @ Spotify
- Drive It Home @ Spotify
- Good News @ Spotify
- Funky Malaguena @ Spotify

- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie @ Spotify
- That Same Old Train @ youtube @ Spotify
- I Get The Blues When It Rains @ youtube @ Spotify
- Young Boy Blues @ Spotify
- Tomorrow Night @ youtube @ Spotify
- Little Girl Of Mine @ youtube @ Spotify

Verve 9869261 / Universal 06 02498 69261 5 bonus tracks:
- Shake A Hand @ youtube @ Spotify
- Shake, Rattle And Roll @ Spotify
- Win Your Love For Me @ Spotify

rec. June 1971 in New Orleans, LA; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; prod. by Quint Davis; production supervision by Sam Charters
front cover photo by Michael P. Smith

notes by Sam Charters

Sonet SNTF 625 (UK 1971)

= Columbia C 062-93663 (Fr 1972)

= Discophon S 4118 (Spain 1972)

notes by Sam Charters

= GNP/Crescendo GNPS-10012 (US 1976)

= Poljazz PSJ 143 (Poland 1976)

= Sonet SNTF 625 / PGP RTB 2222515 (Yugoslavia 1985)

notes by Sam Charters

= Sonet SNTCD 625 (UK 1988)

= Sonet/King KICP 2207 (Jp)

(=) Verve 9869261 (US 2004) "The Sonet Blues Story"

= Universal 06 02498 69261 5 (EU 2005) "The Sonet Blues Story"

book accompanying "The Legacy Of The Blues" LP series

Sam Charters: The Legacy Of The Blues - (A Glimpse Into The) Art And Lives
Of Twelve Great Bluesmen.

UK hardback edition: London (Calder & Boyars) 1975

UK paperback edition: London (Marion Boyars Publishers) 1975

US hardback edition: Boston (Da Capo Press) 1977

US paperback edition: Boston (Da Capo Paperback) 1977

29a

1974

The Legacy Of The Blues Sampler

- Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White
- Funky Malaguena - Snooks Eaglin [Sonet SNTF 625]
- Found My Baby Gone - Champion Jack Dupree
- Wishy Washy Woman - Mighty Joe Young
- I'm A Bluesman - Juke Boy Bonner
- Black Gal You're Sure Looking Warm - Big Joe Williams

- Long Time Gone, A - Memphis Slim
- Starry Crown Blues - J.D. Short
- I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball - Robert Pete Williams
- The Cannonball - Eddie Boyd
- She's So Mellow - Sunnyland Slim
- Please Help Poor Me - Lightnin' Hopkins

"Maxi Sampler" bonus tracks:
- Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Bukka White
- Drive It Home - Snooks Eaglin [Sonet SNTF 625]
- You're The One - Champion Jack Dupree
- Early In The Morning - Mighty Joe Young
- Lonesome Ride Back Home - Juke Boy Bonner
- I Been Wrong But I'll Be Right - Big Joe Williams
- Lets Get With It - Memphis Slim
- Make Me Down A Pallet - J.D. Short
- You're My All Day Steady And My Midnight Dream - Robert Pete Williams
- It's A Mellow Day - Eddie Boyd
- Get Hip To Yourself - Sunnyland Slim
- Water Fallin' Boogie - Lightnin' Hopkins

series prod. by Sam Charters
front cover photo by Sam Charters

notes by Anonymous (most likely Sam Charters)

Sonet SNTX 1 / Sonet 201.038 (UK 1974)

notes by Anonymous (most likely Sam Charters)

= Crescendo GNPS 10010 (US 1976)

= Poljazz PSJ-146 (Poland 1976)

gatefold DLP

(=) Sonet INT 157.103 (UK 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler"
(=) Sonet DLP SNTD 202 (Germany 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler"

(=) Sonet SNTDCD 202 (UK 1983) "The Legacy Of The Blues Maxi Sampler"

notes (1988) by Samuel Charters

= Sonet SNTXCD1 (UK 1988) "The Legacy Of The Blues Sampler"

= GNP Crescendo GNP5-0010X (cassette) (US 1990)

1974

The Wild Magnolias

Barclay BLSL-70022 tracks:
- Handa Wanda (4:42)
- Smoke My Peace Pipe (6:31)
- Two Way Pak E Way (7:51)

- Corey Died On The Battlefield (4:49)
- Soul, Soul, Soul (6:12)
- Saint (8:48)

Get On Down GET 54036 tracks:
- Handa Wanda
- Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right)
- Two Way Pak E Way
- Corey Died On The Battlefield
- (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul
- Saints
- Meet The Boys On The Battlefront
- Ho Na Nae
- Golden Crown
- Shoo Fly
- Iko Iko

The Wild Magnolias are: "Bo" Dollis, "Monk" Boudreaux, "Gato June" Johnson Jr., "Grip" Adams, "Quarter Monn" Tobias, "Gate" Johnson, "Bubba" Scott, James Smothers
Special guests: "Gitchie" Bob Dollis, Monk Boudreaux, Willie Tee, Earl Turbinton Jr., Julius Farmer, Snooks Eaglin, Larry Panna, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts Conga

Barclay BLSL-70022

(=) Get On Down GET 54036
(China 2011)

30a

1975

Down South Blues 1952-1962
Blues Anthology Vol. 4

Sidney Maiden
- Up The River [Imperial unissued]
- Working Woman [Imperial unissued]
- Broke And Busted [Imperial unissued]
- Harpin' The Boogie [Imperial unissued]
Clifton Chenier
- Country Bred
Slim Harpo
- A Man Is Crying [Imperial LM-94001]
- Something Inside Me [Imperial LM-94001]

Guitar Slim
- New Arrival
- Standin' At The Station
- Crying In The Morning
- Bad Luck Is On Me
Earl King
- Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) - Part I
Snooks Eaglin
- See See Rider [Imperial LM-94001]
- Nobody Knows [Imperial 5671]

Toshiba/Liberty LLS-70049 (Jp 1975)

Imperial/Liberty discography

1976

Jumpin' Tonight

Tommy Ridgely
- Looped [Imperial 5203]
Smiley Lewis
- Come On [Imperial 5372]
Joe Turner
- Jumpin' Tonight [Imperial 5090]

Al Johnson
- Lena [Ric 956]
Snooks Eaglin
- Don't Slam That Door [Imperial 5823]
Archibald
- Ballin' With Archie [Imperial 5082]

7 inch 45 rpm EP

Black Diamond 4508

Black Diamond discography

1976

Sugarboy Crawford
Chess Masters Blues Series

- Overboard
- I Don't Know What I'll Do
- You Know I Love You *
- Stop *
- Watch Her Whip Her *
- Honey

- I Bowed On My Knees
- Wandering Baby
- No More Heartaches
- What's Wrong
- Love Love Love *
- Troubled Mind Blues *

- Ooh Wee Sugar *
- There Goes My Baby *
- Jockomo *
- You You You *
- You Call Everybody Sweetheart * #
- If I Loved You Darling * #

- Get Away
- Please Believe Me *
- For Me *
- Wondering
- Night Rider *
- Long Lost Stranger *

* prob. rec. New Orleans c. Nov. 1953 & 1954; James Crawford, voc, p; Big Boy Myles, tb; Alfred Bernard,, David Lastie, saxes; Snooks Eaglin, g, # voc; Frank Fields, b; Eric Warner, dr; Sylvester Saunders, voc chant

2 LP set

Chess 2ACMB-209
= Chess 427017 (Fr)

notes by Terry Pattison

= Chess CH-2-9215 (1984)

= Chess CH2-92508 "Chess Masters"

(=) Classics CD 5143 "1953-1954"

1978

Snooks Eaglin Today: Down Yonder

- Down Yonder
- No More Diggin'
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Going To The River
- Oh Red
- Yours Truly

- Travelling Mood
- St. Pete, Florida
- A Teeny Bit Of Your Love
- Mustang Sally
- Let The Four Winds Blow
- San Jose

Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; Ellis Marsalis, p; Clarence Ford, sax; George French, b, backgr. voc; Bob French, dr

Sonet SNTF 752 (UK)

= GNP/Crescendo GNP 10023 (US 1989)

= Emarcy 06024 9871407 (2005) "Snooks Eaglin With His New Orleans Friends"

33a

1970s

All That Jazz

Gold Coast Chorus - Mossi Chant
Lightening And Group - Long John
Percy "Brother" Randolph - Veal Chop and Pork Chop ("Courtesy of Arhoolie Production Company")
Jelly Roll Morton - The Original Quadrille
Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - Oh, Didn't He Ramble
Billie And DeDe Pierce - Eh, La Bas
"Snooks" Eaglin - Down By The Riverside ("Courtesy of Arhoolie Production Company")
New Leviathan Fox Trot Orchestra - Mid The Pyramids

Lakefront Loungers - Tishomingo Blues
Kid Thomas's Algiers Stompers - Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Bunk Johnson - Careless Love Blues
George Lewis Trio - Burgundy Street Blues
Sweet Emma Barrett - Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll

Jazz and other music from New Orleans drawn from Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University

Tulane Alumni Fund LH-15555/6 (private pressing)

1983

Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans 1960-1961

- Yours Truly [Imperial 5671]
- Nobody Knows [Imperial 5671]
- That Certain Door [Imperial 5692]
- By The River [By The Water] [Imperial 5692]
- If I Could [Imperial 5736]
- Guess Who [Imperial 5736]
- See See Rider [Imperial LM-94001]
- My Head Is Spinning [Imperial 5765]

- Travelin' Mood [Imperial 5765]
- Going To The River [Imperial 5802]
- I'm Slippin' In [Imperial 5802]
- Nothing Sweet As You [Imperial 5823]
- Don't Slam The Door [Imperial 5823]
- Little Eva [Imperial 5946]
- Cover Girl [Imperial 5946]

photo by George Tanner

notes by Anonymous

Sundown CG 709-04 (NL 1983)

Sundown Records discography

1987

Snooks Eaglin: Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!

- You Give Me Nothing But The Blues
- Baby Please
- Oh Sweetness
- Profidia
- Lavinia
- Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!
- Drop The Bomb!
- That Certain Door
- Mary Joe
- Nobody Knows
- Pretty Girls Everywhere

P-Vine bonus tracks:
- That Same Old Train
- I'll See You In My Dreams / Mr. Sandman
- Got Love If You Want It

rec. Oct. 1986; Snooks Eaglin, g, voc; David Lastie, ts, Ron Levy, p, org; Ronnie Earl, rhythm g; Erving Charles, Jr., b; Smokey Johnson, dr; prod. by Hammond Scott

Demon FIEND 96 (UK 1987)

= Black Top BT-1037

= P-Vine PCD-3774 (Jp)

1987

Imperial Musicians 1951-1962
The Rhythm In Rhythm & Blues

Fats Domino - Blue Monday
Dave Bartholomew - The Shufflin' Fox
Smiley Lewis - Bumpity Bump
Smilin' Joe - Sleepwalking Woman
Archibald - Great Big Eyes (Those Little Reds)
Earl King - Come On (Parts 1 & 2)

Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking
Huey Smith & The Clowns - Snag-A-Tooth Jeannie
Dave Bartholomew - That's How You Got Killed Before
Fats Domino - Domino Stomp
Ford Eaglin - I've Been Walkin' [previously unreleased]
Joe Houston - Bobby Sox Ramble
Big Jay McNeely - Deacon Rides Again

EMI/America SQ-17265 (US 1987) ("Treasury Series")

= EMI/Stateside SSL 6030 (UK 1987)

1988

Bluesville Vol. 1 "Folk Blues"

Furry Lewis - Judge Boushay Blues @ youtube
Memphis Willie B. - Country Girl Blues @ youtube
K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Levee Camp Blues @ youtube
Robert Curtis Smith - Catfish Blues @ youtube
Sidney Maiden - San Quentin Blues @ youtube
Wade Walton - Big Fat Mama @ youtube
Pete Franklin - Grievin' Me @ youtube

Blind Willie McTell - The Dying Crapshooter's Blues @ youtube
Lonnie Johnson - Fine Booze and Heavy Dues @ youtube
Scrapper Blackwell - Blues Before Sunrise @ youtube
Reverend Gary Davis - You Got To Move @ youtube
Blind Snooks Eaglin - Brown Skinned Woman @ youtube
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Pawn Shop @ youtube
Lightnin' Hopkins - T-Model Blues @ youtube
Doug Quattlebaum - You Is One Black Rat @ youtube

Ace CDCH 247 bonus tracks:
Memphis Willie B - Highway 61 @ youtube
Furry Lewis - Shake 'em On Down @ youtube
Blind Snooks Eaglin - Alberta @ youtube
Baby Tate - See What You Done Done @ youtube
Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog @ youtube

compiled by Ray Topping

notes (8-pp. booklet) by John H. Cowley

Ace CH 247 (UK 1988)

Ace CDCH 247 (UK 1988)

Bluesville Records discography

1989

Snooks Eaglin: Out Of Nowhere

- Oh Lawdy, My Baby @ youtube
- Lipstick Traces
- Young Girl #
- Out Of Nowhere
- You're So Fine
- Mailman Blues (2:54)
- Wella Wella Baby-La
- Kiss Of Fire
- It's Your Thing @ youtube
- Playgirl
- West Side Baby @ youtube
- Cheeta

P-Vine bonus tracks:
- Bombastic
- Young Boy Blues
- Kiss Of Fire (alt tk)

rec. February & May, 1988 at Southlake Recording Studios, Metairie, LA; # Sam Myers, hca

notes by Ben Sandmel & Jeff Hannusch

Black Top LP/CD BT-1046 (US 1989)
= Demon FIENDCD 146 (UK 1989)

(=) P-Vine PCD-3775 (Jp)

notes by Akira Bunya

= P-Vine PCD-22255 (Jp 1989)

1991

Snooks Eaglin: Country Boy Down In New Orleans

- Country Boy Down In New Orleans || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- I've Had My Fun || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Bottle Up And Go || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Give Me The Good Old Boxcar || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Walking Blues [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Possum Up A Simmon Tree # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- That's All Right || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Veal Chop And Pork Chop # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Down By The Riverside || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Model T And The Train # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Jack O'Diamonds # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Death Valley Blues || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Rock Me Mama || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- John Henry # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Locomotive Train # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- I Had A Little Woman || [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Rock Me Mama # [Folk-Lyric 107 / Arhoolie 2014]
- Mailman Passed || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Going Back To New Orleans || [previously unissued in the U.S.]
- Mardi Gras Mambo # || [previously unissued take]
- Bottle Up & Go # || [previously unissued take]
- This Train # || [previously unissued take]

rec. 1958 in New Orleans, LA by Harry Oster & Richard Allen; Snooks Eaglin, voc, 6-str g, || 12-str g, wb, tom-toms; # Lucius Bridges, wb, voc; # Percy Randolph, hca, voc, washb
includes all of ARH 2014 plus previously unissued solo and group recordings

Arhoolie CD 348 (US 1991)

1992

Snooks Eaglin: Teasin' You

- Baby, Please Come Home
- Soul Train @ youtube
- When It Rains It Pours
- Teasin' You
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
- Black Night
- Sleepwalk
- Travelin' Mood
- Jesus Will Fix It
- Don't Take It So Hard
- Heavy Juice
- Lilly May @ youtube
- My Love Is Strong
- Red Beans

CD bonus tracks:
- I'm Slippin' In
- Besame' Mucho
- Baby, Please Come Home

rec. 1991

Black Top CD BT-1072

= P-Vine PCD-3776 (Jp)

(=) Hep Cat 0530

1992

Black Top Blues-A-Rama Vol. 6
Live At Tipitina's

Anson Funderburgh And The Rockets/Sam Myers
- 20 Miles
- Hold That Train, Conductor
- Look On Yonder Wall
- One Room Country Shack
- Feel So Bad
- Can't Stop Loving My Baby
Snooks Eaglin
- I Cry, Oh!
- Irene
- Apache
- Certainly Ya'll
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Hubert Sumlin
- Howlin' For My Darling
- Your Clock Is Running Out
- Come Home Little Girl
- Honey Dumpling

Black Top CD BT-1073

41a

1992

Snooks Eaglin: Heavy Juice
The Blues Collection # 75

- I Went To The Mardi Gras (4:52)
- When It Rains It Pours (3:04)
- Heavy Juice (2:57)
- Pretty Girls Everywhere (3:35)
- Black Night (3:28)
- Kiss Of Fire (2:36)
- It's Your Thing (2:41)
- West Side Baby (4:39)
- Out Of Nowhere (3:39)
- That Same Old Train (2:57)
- Bombastic (2:10)
- Travellin' Mood (3:24)
- Oh Lavinia (3:37)
- Swanee River Rock (3:23)
- Certainly Ya'll (2:51)
- I'll See You In My Dreams / Mr. Sandman (2:02)

ed. by Tony Russell; original Black Top recordings

notes by Chris Smith

Orbis BLU GNC 075

1994

Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer

- Alberta *
- That's Alright *
- Malaguena *
- When They Ring Them Golden Bells *
- Remember Me *
- Fly Right Back Baby *
- I Don't Know *
- Mean Old World *
- I Must See Jesus #
- She's One Black Rat #
- Don't You Lie To Me #
- Well, I Had My Fun #
- Brown Skin Woman #
- Mama, Don't You Tear My Clothes #
- Who's Been Foolin' You #
- When Shadows Fall #
- One More Drink #
- I Got A Woman #
- Come Back, Baby §
- Trouble In Mind §
- I Got My Questionaire §
- The Drifter Blues §
- Every Day I Have The Blues §
- A Thousand Miles From Home §
- I'm Looking For A Woman §

§ from Storyville SLP 119 (= Folkways FA 2467)
# from Storyville SLP 140
* from Storyville SLP 146

Storyville STCD 8023

Storyville Records discography

1995

Snooks Eaglin: Soul's Edge

- Josephine
- Show Me The Way Back Home
- Ling Ting Tong
- Aw'Some Funk
- I'm Not Ashamed
- Nine Pound Steel
- Answer Now
- Skinny Minnie
- Thrill On The Hill
- You And Me
- I Went To The Mardi Gras @ youtube
- Talk To Me
- Mama And Papa
- God Will Take Care

P-Vine bonus tracks:
- Brown Alert
- Drive Her Home
- Tipitina

rec. 1994

Black Top CD BT-1112

= P-Vine PCD-3777 (Jp)

1995

Snooks Eaglin: Complete Imperial Recordings

- Yours Truly [Imperial 5671]
- Nobody Knows (The Trouble I've Seen) [Imperial 5671]
- That Certain Door [Imperial 5692]
- By The Water [Imperial 5692]
- If I Could [Imperial 5736]
- Guess Who [Imperial 5736]
- C.C. Rider [Imperial LM-94001]
- (Mama) Talk To Your Daughter [previously unreleased]
- I've Been Walkin' ["previously unreleased"; EMI/America SQ-17265]
- My Head Is Spinnin' [Imperial 5765]
- Would You [previously unreleased]
- Travelin' Mood [Imperial 5765]
- Goin' To The River [Imperial 5802]
- I'm Slippin' In [Imperial 5802]
- Nothing Sweet As You [Imperial 5823]
- Don't Slam That Door [Imperial 5823]
- People Are Talkin' [Imperial 5866]
- Long Gone [Imperial 5890]
- Willy Lee [Imperial 5890]
- Reality (formerly titled "Wake Up") [Imperial 5866]
- If I Loved You Baby ["previously unreleased"; =(?) Chess 2ACMB-209 "If I Loved You Darling"]
- You Call Everybody Sweetheart But Me [Chess 2ACMB-209]
- Little Eva [Imperial 5946]
- Cover Girl [Imperial 5946]
- Is It True [previously unreleased]
- Down Younder (We Go Balling) [previously unreleased]

rec. 1960 - 1963; compiled and produced by Pete Welding

Capitol CDP 33918 (US 1995)

= Capitol CZ 545 (UK 1995)

44a

1996

Arhoolie presents American Masters Vol. 1
15 Down Home Country Blues Classics

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line [Arhoolie 1027, CD 304] @ youtube
Lightning Hopkins - Have You Ever Loved A Woman [Arhoolie 1063] @ youtube
John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025, CD 378] @ youtube
Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson - Cairo Blues [Arhoolie 1004, CD 352] @ youtube
Mance Lipscomb - 'Bout A Spoonful [Arhoolie 1001, CD 306] @ youtube
Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl [Arhoolie 1003] @ youtube
Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down In New Orleans [Arhoolie CD 348] @ youtube
Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues [Arhoolie 1005] @ youtube
Dr. Ross - Shake 'em On Down [Arhoolie 1065, CD 371] @ youtube
Robert Pete Williams - Just Tippin' In (4:10) [Arhoolie CD 394] @ youtube [not "Just Trippin' In", as youtube video suggests]
Jesse Fuller - Hump In My Back [Arhoolie CD 360] @ youtube
Big Joe Williams - Brother James [Arhoolie 1002, CD 315] @ youtube
Smoky Babe - I'm Broke And I'm Hungry [Arhoolie 2019, CD 440] @ youtube
R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie [Arhoolie 1042, CD 402] @ youtube
K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues [Arhoolie CD 432] @ youtube

prod. and edited by Chris Strachwitz
cover photo (Big Joe Williams) by Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996)

Arhoolie Records discography

1997

Snooks Eaglin Live In Japan

- Quaker City
- I Went To The Mardi Gras
- Soul Train
- Don't Take It So Hard
- Josephine
- Down Yonder (We Go Ballin')
- Lillie Mae
- Nine Pound Steel
- It's Your Thing
- Yours Truly
- (Boogie On) Reggae Woman
- Black Night
- Traveling Mood
- Reprise

rec. 1995 at the Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, Japan; Snooks Eaglin, voc, g; George Porter, Jr., b, voc; John Autin, p, org, perc, voc; Jeffrey Alexander, dr

Black Top CD BT-113 (US 1997)

19??

Snooks Eaglin: Soul Train from Nawlins
Live at the Park Tower Blues Festival '95

- Quaker City (5:10)
- I Went To The Mardi Gras (4:31)
- Soul Train (3:43)
- Don't Take It So Hard (3:46)
- My Girl Josephine (4:03)
- Down Yonder (We Go Ballin') (4:38)
- My Love Is Strong (3:46)
- Teasin' You (3:47)
- Lillie Mae (3:07)
- Nine Pound Steel (5:06)
- It's Your Thing (4:40)
- Yours Truly (3:56)
- Boogie On Reggae Woman (4:50)
- Black Night (6:47)
- Red Beans (2:52)
- God Will Take Care (6:36)
- Travelin' Mood (6:32)

P-Vine PCD-4789 (Jp 19??)

1997

Snooks Eaglin & Robert Ward: Ultra Magnetic Guitars

Snooks Eaglin
- Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!
- Oh Lawdy, My Baby
- Out Of Nowhere
- It's Your Thing
- Black Night
- Soul Train
- I'm Not Ashamed
- Skinny Minnie
- Sleepwalk
Robert Ward
- Dry Spell
- Forgive Me, Darling
- Your Love Is Real
- Say What You Mean
- All Proud Races
- White Fox
- Beyond This Planet
- Something Good Drivin' The Devil Nuts
- Silver And Gold

P-Vine PVCP-8142 (Jp 1997)

47a

1998

The Bluesville Years Volume Ten "Country Roads, Country Days"

K.C. Douglas
- Wake Up
- Working Woman
- Broken Heart
Alec Seward
- Evil Woman Blues
- Creepin' Blues
Doug Quattlebaum
- You Is One Black Rat
- Sweet Little Woman
Brooks Berry and Scrapper Blackwell
- 'Bama Bound [Bluesville BV/BVLP 1074]
- Blues And Trouble [Bluesville BV/BVLP 1074]
Jesse Fuller
- Key To The Highway
- Stranger Blues
Snooks Eaglin
- That's All Right
- Well, I Had My Fun (Goin' Down Slow)
Henry Townsend
- Cairo Is My Baby's Home
- I Asked Her If She Loved Me
Mercy Dee Walton
- Pity And A Shame
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country
Shakey Jake
- Gimme A Smile
- Jake's Cha Cha
Arbee Stidham
- I'm Tired Of Wandering
- You Can't Live In This World By Yourself
St. Louis Jimmy
- Goin' Down Slow

Prestige PRCD-9918-2 (US 1998)

Bluesville Records discography

200?

Snooks Eaglin: Crescent City Collection

- Red Beans
- Baby You Can Get Your Gun
- Teasin' You
- Cheeta
- Lavinia
- I'm Slippin' In
- Little Mae
- I Went to the Mardi Gras
- My Love Is Strong
- Oh Sweetness
- Baby Please Come Home
- Lipstick Traces
- Nobody Knows
- Oh Lawdy, My Baby
- Soul Train
- Mailman Blues

Fuel 2000 61122

www.fuel2000.com

2002

Snooks Eaglin: The Way It Is

- Can You Hear Me?
- Boogie Rambler
- Lock Doctor
- Trees
- I Don't Speak Espanol
- A Mother's Love
- Ghost Of A Chance
- Express Yourself
- I Done Got Over It
- The Chokin' Kind
- Cubano Mambo
- Looking Back
- I've Been Around The World

P-Vine bonus tracks:
- You're A Sweetheart

rec. 2000

Money Pit MPR-1111

= P-Vine PCD-5677 (Jp)

2004

I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three

CD One:
Snooks Eaglin
- Yours Truly @ Spotify
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie @ Spotify
- My Babe @ Spotify
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey @ Spotify
- Careless Love @ Spotify
- Rock Island Line @ Spotify
- C.C. Rider @ Spotify
- I'm Looking For A Woman @ Spotify
- Hello Dolly @ Spotify
- Lonesome Road @ Spotify
Babe Stovall
- Good Morning Blues @ Spotify
- Candy Man @ Spotify
- Fo' Day Blues @ Spotify
- Gonna Move To Kansas City @ Spotify
Johnny Moment
- Keep Our Business To Yourself @ Spotify
- You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else @ Spotify
Will Shade
- I Got The Blues So Bad @ youtube @ Spotify
- I Can't Stand It @ youtube @ Spotify
Furry Lewis
- Baby, I Know You Don't Love Me @ Spotify
Earl Bell
- Travellin' Man @ Spotify
- Terraplane Blues @ Spotify
Moose Williams
- Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window @ Spotify

CD Two:
Willie Mabon
- Somebody's Got To Pay @ Spotify
Big Walter Horton
- West Side Blues @ Spotify
- Tin Pan Alley @ Spotify
- This Is It @ Spotify
Sunnyland Slim
- Prison Bound @ Spotify
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Hot Potatoes @ Spotify
- One Room Country Shack @ Spotify
Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues @ Spotify
Johnny Young
- You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shoot @ Spotify
Washboard Sam
- Mama Don't Allow @ Spotify
Big Joe Williams
- Rootin' Groundhog @ Spotify
- Southern Blues @ Spotify
- King's Highway Blues @ Spotify
Champion Jack Dupree
- Improvisations and Interview 1 @ Spotify
- Drive 'em Down Special @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 2 @ Spotify
- I Feel Like A Millionaire @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 3 @ Spotify
- Barrelhouse Woman @ Spotify
- Improvisations and Interview 4 @ Spotify

Snooks Eaglin tracks rec. June 2, 1964 in New Orleans, LA
Babe Stovall tracks rec. June 2, 1964 at the Art Gallery, St. Peter Street, New Orleans, LA
Johnny Moment, Will Shade, Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, and Moose Williams rec. May 26, 1964 at Will Shade's apartment, Memphis, TN
CD 2 tracks rec. May 1964 at Southerland Lounge, Chicago, IL
except
Big Joe Williams tracks rec. May 18, 1961 at Willie Dixon's home in Chicago,IL
Champion Jack Dupree tracks rec. January 26, 1964 at Sveriges Radio, Karlaplansstudion in Stockholm, Sweden

2 CD set
notes writer's name not given, most likely Leif Gäverth

Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (Sweden 2004)

2003

Best of Snooks Eaglin

- Just A "Ennie Wennie" Bit
- Let The Four Winds Blow
- Young Boy Blues
- No More Doggin'
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
- Oh Red
- Drive It Home
- St. Pete, Florida
- Good News
- Going To The River
- Who's Loving You Tonight
- Travelling Mood
- Boogie Children
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Yours Truly
- San Jose
- Funky Malaguena

Grammercy CD 182 (US 2003)

2004

The Blues Of Snooks Eaglin & Boogie Bill Webb

Snooks Eaglin
- Mustang Sally
- Let The Four Winds Blow
- Guess Who?
- Drop The Bomb
- Money / St. Pete Florida Blues
- San-Ho-Zay
- Country Boy Down In New Orleans

- Hideaway
- Johnny B. Goode
- Talk To Your Daughter

Snooks Eaglin "backed by a small band"
Audio tracks of a video filmed on October 23, 1985 at New Orleans's Storyville Jazz Hall, released in 2001 (Storyville SV 6041 PAL only!): "The Blues of Snooks Eaglin" [Allegro NTSC version!]

Boogie Bill Webb

- You Got A Right
- You Better Watch, You Might Get Killed
- Kansas City
- Early In The Morning

Boogie Bill Webb with Harmonica Slim
Audio tracks of a video filmed 1984 in New Orleans, released in 2002 (Storyville SV 6043 PAL only!): "The Blues of Boogie Bill Webb" [Allegro 1997 NTSC version!]

Storyville STCD 8054

Storyville Records discography

2005

Snooks Eaglin
The Sonet Blues Story

- Boogie Children
- Who's Loving You Tonight
- Lucille
- Drive It Home
- Good News
- Funky Malaguena
- Pine Top's Boogie- Woogie
- That Same Old Train
- I Get The Blues When It Rains
- Young Boy Blues
- Tomorrow Night
- Little Girl Of Mine
- Shake A Hand #
- Shake, Rattle And Roll #
- Win Your Love For Me #

# bonus tracks

reissue of Sonet SNTF 625
"Legacy Of The Blues"

Emarcy 06024 9869262

2005

Snooks Eaglin With His New Orleans Friends
The Sonet Blues Story

- Down Yonder
- No More Diggin'
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Going To The River
- Oh Red
- Yours Truly
- Travelling Mood
- St. Pete, Florida
- A Teeny Bit Of Your Love
- Mustang Sally
- Let The Four Winds Blow
- San Jose

reissue of Sonet SNTF 752
"Down Yonder"

Emarcy 06024 9871407

2005

Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer

- Looking For A Woman [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Walking Blues [Heritage EP 301; Heritage LP 1002; alt. tk. of Bluesville BV 1046]
- Careless Love [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Saint James Infirmary [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- High Society [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- I Got My Questionnaire [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Mama, Don't Tear My Clothes [Storyville SLP 146]
- Trouble In Mind [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- The Lonesome Road [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles Away From Home) [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- One Room Country Shack [= 'Six Thousand Miles From Nowhere' on Folkways FE 4530]
- Who's Been Foolin' You [Heritage LP 1002; Storyville SLP 140]
- Drifting Blues (alt tk) [previously unissued] @ youtube
- Sophisticated Blues [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Come Back Baby (alt tk) [previously unissued]
- Rock Island Line [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- See See Rider [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Mean Old World [Storyville SLP 146]
- Mean Old Frisco [Folkways FA 2461]
- Every Day I Have The Blues [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Careless Love (alt tk) [previously unissued]
- The Drifter Blues 2 (LP tk) [Folkways FA 2476, et al.]
- Look Down That Lonesome Road (alt tk) [previously unissued] @ youtube

remastered

32-pp. booklet with notes by Elijah Wald

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40165 (US 2005)

2014

Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonian Folkways

- Bring it On Down to My House - Warner Williams with Jay Summerour (2:02)
- Talking Blues - Pink Anderson (2:26)
- Nobody's Business (If I Do) - John Jackson (3:15)
- Alabama Bound - Little Brother Montgomery (2:17)
- Pallet On The Floor - Brownie McGhee (3:09)
- Chicken You Can't Roost Too High For Me - Bill Williams (3:16)
- My Hula Love - Lead Belly (2:16)
- Candy Man - Reverend Gary Davis (2:32)
- Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - John Cephas and Phil Wiggins (3:32)
- Froggy Went-A-Courting - Peg Leg Sam (4:10)
- Monday Morning Blues - Mississippi John Hurt (5:52)
- The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam - Pink Anderson (2:03)
- Raise A Ruckus Tonight - Brownie McGhee (2:49)
- Reno Factory - Marvin Foddrell (2:09)
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - John Jackson (3:07)
- Honeysuckle Rose - Warner Williams with Jay Summerour (2:05)
- Bill Bailey - Big Bill Broonzy (1:55)
- When The Roses Bloom Again - Bill Williams 2:05)
- Straighten Up And Fly Right - Peg Leg Sam (3:14)
- Careless Love - Snooks Eaglin (2:33)
- They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree - Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong (2:20)

compiled by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place

notes by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40211 (US 2014)
[read notes]

Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 181
- Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven: Blues Records 1943 to 1970 - A selective discography, Vol. one, A to K.- pp. 383-385 - Ford Eaglin) & pp. 294-295 (James Crawford)
- Klaus Kilian: Review of Smithsonian Folkways CD SFW 40165 in German Blues Circle Info 12/2005-1/2006 (358), p. 19 (Ford Eaglin) & pp. 294-295 (James Crawford)
- http://user.mc.net/~snooks/snooks/bigman.html
- http://homepage1.nifty.com/bluesknk/eaglncd1.html
- http://homepage1.nifty.com/bluesknk/eaglncd2.html
- http://homepage1.nifty.com/bluesknk/eaglin.html
- http://www.bluesaccess.com/No_38/snooks.html
- http://www.providencephoenix.com/archive/music/97/05/01/SNOOKS.html
- http://www.mnblues.com/profile/snookseaglin2000.html
- http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ko-1/crossroads/blues/s/eaglin.htm
- http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-pursit-of-bo-consciousness-part-5.html
- http://www.nugrape.net/h-301.jpg
- http://boogiewoody.multiply.com/journal/item/363
- http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/eddie-bo-1930-2009-three-faces-of-check-your-bucket/

thanks to Alan Balfour, 'blues4sale' & Gerrit Robs, Snežana Lazarević, Benoît Brière, Rob Ford and Marc Claes for additional info / scans

The Flamingos, c. 1953
(l to r) Allan Toussaint, p; Walter Lang, tp; Benjamin Gregory, ts; Frank Morton, as; Ferdinand Bigou, tb; James Jackson, dr; Snooks Eaglin, g
source: Notes accompanying Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40165

The Flamingos, c. 1953
(l to r) Walter Lang, tp; Allan Toussaint, p; Ferdinand Bigou, tb; Benjamin Gregory, ts; Snooks Eaglin, g; James Jackson, dr; Frank Morton, cl
source: musicrising.tulane.edu/learn/a_chapter/47/

Harry Oster recording Percy Randolph
(most likely January/February 1958 in New Orleans)
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 67
("D.I.T.E. / I.P.S." [French photo agency]; photographer's name not given)

Photograph used on the front cover of Storyville SLP 146;
photographer: Harry Oster

source: eBay auction of photograph used on the front cover of Bluesville 1046;
photographer: Harry Oster

source: same eBay auction; photographer: Harry Oster

source: same eBay auction; photographer: Harry Oster

Picnic at the Branch Inn in Slidell, Louisiana with Lil' Snooks Eaglin Band (on truck), 1960
source: Joachim E. Berendt & William Claxton: Jazz Life - Auf den Spuren des Jazz.- Offenburg (Burda Druck und Verlag GmbH) 1961, pp. 78-79
photographer: William Claxton

Snooks Eaglin & Percy Randolph
source: Living Blues 8 (1972), p. 31; photographer: James LaRocca