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Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 [Compilation]

Pink Anderson Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (5 Jun 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Compilation
  • Label: Old Hat Records / Enterprises
  • ASIN: B000B5KRNO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 99,281 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
2. Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett
3. Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock
4. Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones
5. Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin
6. Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
7. Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
8. The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
9. Bye, Bye, Policeman - Jim Jackson
10. The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - Walter Smith
See all 24 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
2. Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee
3. It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers
4. Bring It With You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers
5. Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie
6. Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
7. Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
8. I Got Mine - Frank Stokes
9. Hannah - Chris Bouchillon
10. Adam & Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
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Five Stars. Groundbreaking. "Fans of Nick Tosches' Where Dead Voices Gather will lap up this extraordinary snapshot of an America that is still shrouded in shadow. Good For What Ails You supplants the Harry Smith collections by surveying the people's music of the day, some of which sounds like nothing you have heard before." Jon Savage - MOJO Dec 2005

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 classic performances by such colorful names as Pink Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Gid Tanner, Blind Sammie, Bogus Ben Covington, Fiddlin' John Carson, Banjo Joe, Shorty Godwin, Beans Hambone, Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers, the Three Tobacco Tags, and many more!

Two-CD Set / 48 Songs Digitally Remastered / Over 2 Hours of Music / Six-Panel Digipak with 72-page Full Color Booklet

A Profusely Illustrated History of the Medicine Shows, many Rare Photographs and Firsthand Accounts never before published, plus full discography and song descriptions.

Review

A Sonic Tonic: One of the fall's more curious and enlightening CD sets comes from acclaimed reissue label Old Hat. -- Todd Martens - Billboard/Reuters 15 Oct 2005

Annual Critics' Poll of the year's best records: Good For What Ails You # 16 -- Top 20 Reissues of 2005 - No Depression (TN) Jan/Feb 2006

As academia continues to pry open American show business' minstrel past, Ails is a fascinating illustration of its musical appeal. -- Michaelangelo Matos - Seattle (WA) Weekly 30 Nov 2005

Fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music may well find that this one is even wilder. -- Steve Leggett - All Music Guide Nov 2005

Good For What Ails You is just amazing - expansive, odd, moving, confusing, glorious. -- Greil Marcus - author The Old, Weird America Oct 2005

Listening, one can almost smell the Kickapoo Indian Salve. Pitches may have been purest snake oil, but music still delights. -- Chris Morris - Hollywood Reporter/Reuters 29 Dec 2005

Rare tracks from the heyday of the snake oil vendors. Weird folk and blackface balladry for Harry Smith Anthology addict. -- Top 10 Reissue of the Year - MOJO Jan 2006

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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A rich 2 disc seam of American musical history, presented with a gorgeous booklet containing liner notes, photographs and essays on the phenomenon of medicine show music. May seem like a minority interest item, but if you like early blues or bluegrass there is plenty here for you to enjoy. There is even a version (the original?) of Tell it to me, the song done so well by Old Crow Medicine show. I have given it 4 stars out of 5 only because of the price. JSP records knock out well remastered 4 disc sets of this kind of stuff for half the price (though their liner notes are not is this league).
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a worthwhile buy 9 Mar 2009
Format:Audio CD
THIS DOUBLE CD AND BOOK ARE EXCELLENT VALUE, THE BOOK IS GREAT FOR WANT OF A BETTER WORD, ITS WELL WORTH BUYING JUST FOR THAT, BUT MUSIC IS AN ADDED BONUS I RECOMEND THIS VERY HIGHLY WORTH EVERY PENNY
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great to hear original music 28 April 2013
By hodgy
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I sat back and thoroughly enjoyed this music. Original music played and sung with great gusto. I imagined being in the wild west being sold all kinds of tonics. The best tonic of all is the variety of this album.
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4.0 out of 5 stars THE REAL ORIGINAL AMERICA 30 May 2010
Format:Audio CD
THIS IS HOW AMERICAN MUSIC SOUNDED BEFORE IT BECAME TOTALLY COMMERCIAL AND DEPENDENT ON THE WHIMS

OF THE STUDIO PRODUCERS. THIS COLLECTION CAPTURES THAT WONDERFUL MOMENT WHEN SHEER IRREPRESSIBLE ENERGY

WAS ALLOWED TO BE COMMITTED TO VINYL WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE OF STUDIO EXECUTIVES. WHAT A JOY!
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