Eager Boy Album

EAGER BOY

On an impluse, I ordered another Norton Records LP at the same time as the Hasil Adkins album White Light/White Meat, which is a 2010 compilation of a man from northern Louisiana who calls himself the Lonesome Drifter called Eager Boy (subtitled: “Rockabilly and Hillbilly Bop from the Vaults of Ram Records 1958-59!”).

The Lonesome Drifter has some lovely reminiscences within the liner notes on the Eager Boy LP; they conclude: “The last show I did was in 1960. Margaret Lewis and all of them were on the bill. Like I said, I was a loner. I’d do my thing and cut and run. We used this fiddle player that night, and on the second song, he sounded like he was skinning a cat! I put my guitar across my shoulder and I quit right there. Pawned my guitar. I’ve regretted it ever since. But that played into the mindset of the Lonesome Drifter, no good, a down and outer. I guess it added some to the mystery about me.”

(May 2011)