Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Studio | Southlake [1] | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Label | Black Top [2] | |||
Producer | Hammond Scott | |||
Snooks Eaglin chronology | ||||
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Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! is an album by the American blues musician Snooks Eaglin, released in 1987. [3] [4] It was regarded as a comeback for Eaglin, who had not put out an album since 1978. [5] [6]
The backing musicians, in part pulled from Fats Domino's band, were considered to be some of New Orleans' best sidemen. [7] [8] Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! was produced by Hammond Scott. [9]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide | [11] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [12] |
The Washington Post wrote that "shuffle tunes like 'Oh Sweetness' roll with rhumba rhythms and the headlong momentum of a good Professor Longhair arrangement, and Eaglin even manages to detonate some James Brown funk on 'Drop That Bomb!'" [13] The Los Angeles Times thought that Eaglin's "cognac-smooth vocals get down to serious business on the wryly twisted blues 'That Certain Door' and 'You Give Me Nothing but the Blues'." [7] The Boston Globe opined that "Eaglin's pleasant voice and relaxed guitar preside over a potpourri of New Orleans styles." [14] The News & Observer concluded that "David Lastie's tenor saxophone solos are models of climatic blues shouting." [15]
AllMusic called the album "an earthly delight; [Eaglin's] utterly unpredictable guitar weaves and darts through supple rhythms provided by New Orleans vets Smokey Johnson on drums and Erving Charles, Jr. on bass." [10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed it "tough and rollicking." [12]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "You Give Me Nothing but the Blues" | 2:33 |
2. | "Baby Please" | 3:15 |
3. | "Oh Sweetness" | 3:14 |
4. | "Profidia" | 2:18 |
5. | "Lavinia" | 3:34 |
6. | "Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!" | 2:50 |
7. | "Drop the Bomb!" | 2:54 |
8. | "That Certain Door" | 3:10 |
9. | "Mary Joe" | 3:10 |
10. | "Nobody Knows" | 2:15 |
11. | "Pretty Girls Everywhere" | 3:33 |
Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Studio | Southlake [1] | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Label | Black Top [2] | |||
Producer | Hammond Scott | |||
Snooks Eaglin chronology | ||||
|
Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! is an album by the American blues musician Snooks Eaglin, released in 1987. [3] [4] It was regarded as a comeback for Eaglin, who had not put out an album since 1978. [5] [6]
The backing musicians, in part pulled from Fats Domino's band, were considered to be some of New Orleans' best sidemen. [7] [8] Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! was produced by Hammond Scott. [9]
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [9] |
MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide | [11] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [12] |
The Washington Post wrote that "shuffle tunes like 'Oh Sweetness' roll with rhumba rhythms and the headlong momentum of a good Professor Longhair arrangement, and Eaglin even manages to detonate some James Brown funk on 'Drop That Bomb!'" [13] The Los Angeles Times thought that Eaglin's "cognac-smooth vocals get down to serious business on the wryly twisted blues 'That Certain Door' and 'You Give Me Nothing but the Blues'." [7] The Boston Globe opined that "Eaglin's pleasant voice and relaxed guitar preside over a potpourri of New Orleans styles." [14] The News & Observer concluded that "David Lastie's tenor saxophone solos are models of climatic blues shouting." [15]
AllMusic called the album "an earthly delight; [Eaglin's] utterly unpredictable guitar weaves and darts through supple rhythms provided by New Orleans vets Smokey Johnson on drums and Erving Charles, Jr. on bass." [10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed it "tough and rollicking." [12]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "You Give Me Nothing but the Blues" | 2:33 |
2. | "Baby Please" | 3:15 |
3. | "Oh Sweetness" | 3:14 |
4. | "Profidia" | 2:18 |
5. | "Lavinia" | 3:34 |
6. | "Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!" | 2:50 |
7. | "Drop the Bomb!" | 2:54 |
8. | "That Certain Door" | 3:10 |
9. | "Mary Joe" | 3:10 |
10. | "Nobody Knows" | 2:15 |
11. | "Pretty Girls Everywhere" | 3:33 |