Soul's Edge

Soul's Edge
Studio album by
Snooks Eaglin
Released1995
RecordedNovember 1994
StudioUltrasonic Studios, New Orleans
GenreBlues
Length68:08
LabelBlack Top
ProducerHammond Scott[1]
Snooks Eaglin chronology
Teasin' You
(1992) 		Soul's Edge
(1995) 		Soul Train from Nawlins
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Edmonton Journal[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]

Soul's Edge is an album by the American blues guitarist and singer Snooks Eaglin, released in 1995 on Black Top Records.[5][6]

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Bill Dahl wrote: "Give this New Orleans master enough studio time, and he'll redo the entire history of postwar R&B his own way."[2] The Chicago Reader wrote that "the core blues feel remains, but Eaglin's remarkable flexibility allows him to inhabit nearly any situation with grace, from the furious key-changing blues of bassist George Porter Jr.'s instrumental 'Aw' Some Funk', a real showcase for the guitarist, to the heart-wrenching lament his playing expresses on 'Nine Pound Steel'."[7] The Times-Colonist wrote that "Eaglin drives the band with majestic blues string bending and grace."[8]

Track listing

  1. "Josephine" (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 6:05
  2. "Show Me the Way Back Home" (Willie Tee) – 4:13
  3. "Ling Ting Tong" (Mabel Godwin) – 4:00
  4. "Aw' Some Funk" (George Porter, Jr.) – 4:55
  5. "I'm Not Ashamed" (Don Robey) – 3:40
  6. "Nine Pound Steel" (Dan Penn, W. Thompson) – 5:32
  7. "Answer Now" (Porter, Eaglin) – 6:01
  8. "Skinny Minnie" (Bill Haley, Milt Gabler, Rusty Keefer, Catherine Cafra) – 4:14
  9. "Thrill on the Hill" (Hank Ballard) – 2:51
  10. "You and Me" (Porter, Eaglin) – 6:13
  11. "I Went to the Mardi Gras" (Eaglin, Ridgely, Scott) – 4:44
  12. "Talk to Me" (Joe Seneca) – 5:23
  13. "Mama and Papa" (Earl King) – 4:00
  14. "God Will Take Care" (Traditional) – 4:17

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Berry, Jason (August 1995). "Next stop, Black Top". New Orleans Magazine. 29 (11): 47.
  2. ^ a b Dahl, Bill. Snooks Eaglin – Soul's Edge: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Levesque, Roger (September 16, 1995). "BLUES". Edmonton Journal: D2.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 190.
  5. ^ "Snooks Eaglin | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Dahl, Bill. "NO REQUEST TOO OBSCURE FOR `HUMAN JUKEBOX'". chicagotribune.com.
  7. ^ Margasak, Peter. "Soul Survivor". Chicago Reader.
  8. ^ Blake, Joseph (June 15, 1995). "Soul's Edge Snooks Eaglin (Black Top)". Times-Colonist: 1.