Baby, You Can Get Your Gun!
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| Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! | ||||
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| 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]
Critical reception
| 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]