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

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[11]

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!'"[12] 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."[13]

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."[11]

Track listing

Personnel

• Snooks Eaglin - guitar, vocals
• Erving Charles, Jr. - bass
• Ronnie Earl - guitar
• Smokey Johnson - drums
• David Lastie - saxophone
• Ron Levy - keyboards

References