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1 Citation The great blues/country/you-name-it singer Snooks Eaglin died last week. Eaglin performing live in 2006; swiped from Wikipedia.I've not heard a lot of Eaglin's music. But when I learned he died, I remembered his voice from hearing it years ago. Here he is with a version of the traditional "Saint James Infirmary." url(http://beemp3.com/player/embed.css);Snooks Eaglin - Saint James InfirmaryFound at bee mp3 search engineR.I.P., Snooks..., technorati.com
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1 Citation I resisted writing about Snooks Eaglin?s funeral yesterday, wondering if it was tasteless to comment on it. But later in the day at the visitation for Antoinette K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge, people asked how it was, so I?ll use that request as my guide.It was very nice. It was generally the right mix of church ritual and secular expressions, so there was a ritualized comfort dimension, but it was a service about Eaglin and it couldn?t have been mistaken for anyone else?s funeral. Irma Thom, technorati.com
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1 Citation Queridos niños y niñas, no os asustéis. No me voy a poner pedante hablando de músicos alternativos en plan, "la música que yo escucho no la conoce ni Dios... aquesoyguáy?", ni mucho menos. De hecho, hasta hace una hora escasa, también para mi era un desconocido. Los chicos de Radio 3 salieron a mi rescate una vez más y, esta vez, de la mano de Juan Beer (del grupo Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer) me pusieron en órbita con un puñado de canciones de Blind Snooks. Lo malo es que el orige, technorati.com
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1 Citation Un paro cardíaco se lleva al legendario cantante y guitarrista Snooks Eaglin (Nueva Orleans, 21 de Enero de 1936 - 18 de Febrero de 2009). El rey de la improvisación, una de las voces más dulces y personales, un peculiar estilo como guitarrista (autodidacta) y una pasión infinita por la música son las características más representativas , technorati.com
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Sat Eye Candy: R.I.P. Snooks Eaglin (c/o Jambase) 1 Citation WE BID FAREWELL TO THE "HUMAN JUKEBOX" Justifiably legendary bluesman Snooks Eaglin died of a heart attack in his native New Orleans this past Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at the age of 72. The blind street musician rose to fame in the 1950s, picking up admirers with his incendiary guitar work and a voice that earned him the title "Little Ray Charles." The nickname that really stuck though was "Human Jukebox" because of Eaglin's incredible memory and ability to digest and morph anythi, technorati.com
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1 Citation Snooks Eaglin The New York Times reports the death of New Orleans musician Snooks Eaglin. He was 72. ?He played with a certain finger style that was highly unusual,? said the pianist Allan Toussaint, who was 13 when he formed a band with Mr. Eaglin. ?He was unlimited on the guitar. Folks would assume, ?I can do this or I can do that,? but Snooks wouldn?t. There was nothing he couldn?t do. It was extraordinary.? ... ?His death is like losing a Dizzy Gillespie, a Professor Longhair, a Johnn, technorati.com
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Snooks Eaglin, R&B Singer and Guitarist, Dies at 72 1 Citation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 19, 2009 NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? The R&B singer and guitarist Snooks Eaglin, who counted platinum-selling rockers among his fans, died here Wednesday. He was 72. The cause was a heart attack he suffered after falling ill and being hospitalized last week, said John Blancher, a family friend. Mr. Eaglin learned he had prostate cancer last year. Musicians including Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and Bonnie Raitt would seek out Mr. Eag, technorati.com
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Snooks Eaglin at 2007 JazzFest Day 2-299 1 Citation JazzFest 07 Day 2-299 Originally uploaded by NoVARon I have become jaded over the years, but few acts could continually astonish me as much as the late Snooks Eaglin who passed away this year at the age of 72 in New Orleans. While he recorded with Smiley Lewis and on his own for Imperial as a R&B musician, folklorist Harry Oster recorded him as a blind street singer that misled many as to the extent of his talents. He remerged with some perfromances and recordings with Professor Longhair, technorati.com
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1 Citation I've just finished reading Red Kelly's soulful tribute to Snooks Eaglin and Antoinette K-Doe, two of New Orleans' own who recently passed within the 10 days of each other. Red posts a wonderful narrative of Snooks' life in music and the music in his life and his words and memory of Antoinette are touching. This is a post not to be missed for New Orleans music lovers. Go now., technorati.com
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