Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937)
 Styles: Old-Timey, Appalachian, Minstrel, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Jug Band, Songster
Label: Old Hat Records
Released: 2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 167,4 + 163,2 MB
Time: 73:07 + 71:16
Art: front
Disc 1
1. Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm - 2:52
2. Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Tanner's Boarding House - 3:05
3. Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - 3:06
4. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues - 3:14
5. Shorty Godwin - Jimbo Jambo Land - 2:57
6. Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - 2:57
7. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - 2:59
8. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - 3:14
9. Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman - 3:03
10. Walter Smith - The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - 2:56
11. Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues - 3:21
12. Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans - 2:53
13. Stovepipe #1 and David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - 3:08
14. Grant Brothers & Their Music - Tell It To Me - 2:57
15. Carolina Tar Heels - Ain't No Use Working So Hard - 3:08
16. Walter Cole - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - 2:47
17. Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet - C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - 2:54
18. Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out - 2:53
19. Henry 'Ragtime Texas' Thomas - Railroadin' Some - 3:19
20. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Traveling Man - 2:55
21. Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - 3:01
22. Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Baby All Night Long - 2:47
23. Chris Bouchillon - Born In Hard Luck - 3:19
24. Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now - 3:11
Disc 2
1. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - 3:09
2. Sam McGee - Chevrolet Car - 3:09
3. Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - 2:58
4. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come - 2:45
5. Blind Sammie - Atlanta Strut - 3:11
6. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Go Along Mule - 3:07
7. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Casey Bill - 2:48
8. Frank Stokes - I Got Mine - 3:06
9. Chris Bouchillon - Hannah - 2:57
10. Bogus Ben Covington - Adam & Eve In The Garden - 2:42
11. Alec Johnson & His Band - Mysterious Coon - 3:15
12. Carolina Tar Heels - Her Name Was Hula Lou - 2:59
13. Three Tobacco Tags - Reno Blues - 2:39
14. Papa Charlie Jackson - Scoodle Um Skoo - 3:17
15. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee - 3:05
16. Walter Smith - The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - 2:59
17. Hezekiah Jenkins - Shout You Cats - 3:08
18. Tommie Bradley - Nobody's Business If I Do - 2:58
19. Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sixteen - 2:52
20. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - Ticklish Reuben - 2:40
21. Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - 2:52
22. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Shine - 3:01
23. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - The Gypsy - 3:21
24. J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Kiss Me Cindy - 2:06
Notes: Before motion pictures... before radio... before television... the traveling medicine shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures, and with them came a host of singers, dancers, comedians, banjo pickers, blues shouters, jug blowers, string ticklers, and minstrel men. The shows died out by mid-20th century, but not before a handful of seasoned veterans left their musical legacy on phonograph records. Here are 48 classic performances by such colorful names as Pink Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Shorty Godwin, Gid Tanner, Banjo Joe, the Three Tobacco Tags, and many more—well over two hours of this extraordinary music. A 72-page color booklet details the fascinating history of the medicine shows with a profusion of rare photographs, artifacts, illustrations, full discography, and song descriptions. Three years in the making, the new release from Old Hat Records is a groundbreaking survey of music from the American medicine show, that peculiar form of theater that merged entertainment with merchandising. Good For What Ails You is a two-CD set that delivers a generous mix of 48 songs, many available nowhere else, first recorded nearly 80 years ago and now remastered with digital clarity.
Good For What Ails You was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Album Notes and Best Histornical Album. ~ Old Hat Records
“Like Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, these 48 tracks provide a fine introduction to what Greil Marcus called ‘the old, weird America.’ If nothing else, such a cornucopia of delights will cure the modern day blues.” –Casper Llewellyn Smith, Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2006
Bluebird“Factor in assorted skillet lickers, jug stompers, fruit jar drinkers, ramblers, crackers, tarheels and tobacco tags, and you have a buried history of vernacular music, therapeutic culture and politics second to none. Recommended; or rather, prescribed.” –Brian Morton, The Wire, November 2005
“When you go out on tour and play with different bands every day, or you play in bars all the time, your tastes start to become very selective... What I’m listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It’s quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.” –Jack White, White Stripes, December 2005
Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
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Posted by muddyOznake: Various, Old-Timey, Appalachian, Minstrel, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Jug Band, Songster
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