Snooks Eaglin, New Orleans Guitarist, Dies At 72

Snooks Eaglin, the blind New Orleans blues guitarist with a unique flamenco-esque fingerpicking style, died Wednesday at 72 of a heart attack. NYT:
By MaxMarginal — February 20, 2009

Snooks Eaglin, the blind New Orleans blues guitarist with a unique flamenco-esque fingerpicking style, died Wednesday at 72 of a heart attack.

NYT:

Musicians including Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and Bonnie Raitt would seek out Mr. Eaglin to watch him perform, Mr. Blancher said. But New Orleans musicians knew him best.

“He played with a certain finger style that was highly unusual,” said the pianist Allan Toussaint, who was 13 when he formed a band with Mr. Eaglin. “He was unlimited on the guitar. Folks would assume, ‘I can do this or I can do that,’ but Snooks wouldn’t. There was nothing he couldn’t do. It was extraordinary.”

There are a whole bunch of extraordinary performances on YouTube, check them out.

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