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Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!
Studio album by
Snooks Eaglin
Released1987
StudioSouthlake[1]
GenreBlues
LabelBlack Top[2]
ProducerHammond Scott
Snooks Eaglin chronology
Down Yonder
(1978) 		Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!
(1987) 		Out of Nowhere
(1989)

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]

Production

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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]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
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

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ "Snooks Eaglin: Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies at 72". The Times-Picayune.
  4. ^ Komara, Edward; Lee, Peter (July 1, 2004). The Blues Encyclopedia. Routledge – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Heim, Chris (4 June 1989). "R & B from New Orleans: A discography". Arts. Chicago Tribune. p. 7.
  6. ^ Perrone, Pierre (23 Apr 2009). "Snooks Eaglin". Obituaries. The Independent. p. 34.
  7. ^ a b "On the Off Beat: Cultural Caretaker of Cajun Reveals a Gem". Los Angeles Times. September 20, 1987.
  8. ^ Lichtenstein, Grace; Dankner, Laura (1993). Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans. W.W. Norton. p. 135.
  9. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 190.
  10. ^ a b "Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! - Snooks Eaglin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  11. ^ MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 119.
  12. ^ a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 218.
  13. ^ "Cooling Out with the Blues". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  14. ^ Kahn, Hamilton (26 Nov 1987). "Snooks Eaglin: Baby, You Can Get Your Gun". Calendar. The Boston Globe. p. A18.
  15. ^ Cordle, Owen (12 Jul 1987). "Off the Record". The News & Observer. p. 4E.
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