16 Down Home Country Classics – Various Artists / Arhoolie CD-110

Description

 CD 110

Arhoolie’s American masters is a mid-line sampler series culled from our full price CDs. Each CD features the best known artists of a particular musical genre. Inside the booklet each song is referenced to the CD it originally came from with a photo mini of that CD cover and a listing of the artist’s other Arhoolie CDs.

1. Single Girl – Rose Maddox
2. No Never No – Strange Creek Singers
3. Run Mountain – J.E. Mainer
4. Spanish Fandango – Snuffy Jenkins
5. Eight Thirty Blues – The Armstrong Twins
6. Hey Hey Bartender – Del McCoury
7. Sam McGee Stomp – Sam McGee
8. Old Dan Tucker – Louisiana Honey Drippers
9. You Turned Your Back – Toni Brown
10. Carroll County Blues – Suzy & Eric Thompson
11. George’s Playhouse Boogie – Maddox Brothers & Rose
12. John Barleycorn – Kenny Baker
13. Black Land Farmer – Bill Neely
14. Turkey Buzzard / Chinquapin Hunting – Any Old Time String Band
15. Hello Stranger – The Carter Family
16. Bogue Chito Fling Ding – Hodges Brothers

REVIEW

“Cheekily titled this isn’t a collection of hits at all but a sampler from the Arhoolie label. It’s still brilliant. The Armstrong Twins’ ‘Eight Thirty Blues’ has bravura picking that plays more games with tempo than bop allows let alone rock. As a Maddox brother exclaims during a guitar break: ‘I can’t stand it it’s driving me sane!’ If the roots of rock are this fantastic how come the flowers in the shops are looking so sad?”

(Ben Watson — Wire)