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Obituary: Snooks Eaglin (1936-2009)

March 1, 2009 by: OffBeat Staff

Hours before this issue of OffBeat shipped, we learned that Snooks Eaglin passed away on February 18. This is a sad loss, as one of the city’s most idiosyncratic musical thinkers is gone. We’ll do more next month, but for now, we want to remember Snooks with an excerpt from our February 1995 story on Eaglin by Keith Spera.

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