New Orleans Street Singer

This CD was released in 2005, and like the other New Orleans Street Singer CD (from 1994), this one contains songs from the 1959 album, Snooks Eaglin: New Orleans Street Singer. However, that 1994 disc only contained a sampling from that LP, along with tracks from 2 other early albums. This newer CD contains the full contents of the LP, along with some unreleased tracks; plus a very extensive booklet which contains a bio and notes on each song. And to me, this is simply a guess, but it just seems more accurate. The 1994 CD credited Snooks as the writer on many songs that are shown with a different author here. Given that Snooks isn't known as a prolific songwriter, and that the new CD is on the Smithsonian label, I'm thinking the new CD probably has the correct info. It gives me a vibe of being well-researched. That's also why I'm guessing, in cases where song titles are "kind of" the same on each CD, the new one probably has the "correct" titles. Still, despite the identical names, this CD doesn't replace the earlier one. The old one still has 18 tracks from other LPs.

Songs

Format of song listing is:
Song Name [Writer]
  1. Looking For A Woman [Jimmy McCracklin]
  2. Walking Blues [Sam Hopking]
  3. Careless Love []
  4. Saint James Infirmary []
  5. High Society [Armand Piron/Clarence Williams]
  6. I Got My Questionnaire []
  7. Let Me Go Home, Whiskey [Shifty Henry]
  8. Mama, Don't Tear My Clothes []
  9. Trouble In Mind [Richard M. Jones]
  10. The Lonesome Road [Gene Austin/Nathaniel Shilkret]
  11. Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles Away From Home) [Dave Bartholomew/Antoine Domino]
  12. One Room Country Shack [Mercy Dee Walton]
  13. Who's Been Foolin' You [Arthur Crudup]
  14. Drifting Blues [Charles Brown/Johnny Moore/Eddie Williams]
  15. Sophisticated Blues [Snooks Eaglin]
  16. Come Back, Baby [Walter Davis]
  17. Rock Island Line []
  18. See See Rider []
  19. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer [Rudolph Toombs]
  20. Mean Old World [Aaron Walker]
  21. Mean Old Frisco [Arthur Crudup]
  22. Every Day I Have The Blues [Peter Chatman]
  23. Careless Love 2 []
  24. Drifting Blues 2 []
  25. The Lonesome Road 2 []

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Last updated 20 Jun 2008.