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

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

Editorial Reviews
<"b000b5krno5020"> Greil Marcus - author The Old, Weird America Oct 2005
Good For What Ails You is just amazing - expansive, odd, moving, confusing, glorious.

<"b000b5krno5019"> Todd Martens - Billboard/Reuters Oct 15, 2005
A Sonic Tonic: One of the fall's more curious and enlightening CD sets comes from acclaimed reissue label Old Hat.

<"b000b5krno4999"> Album Description
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.

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

Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937, Music, Various Artists, Pink Anderson, Gid Tanner, Gus Cannon, Emmett Miller, Charlie Poole, Dallas String Band, Grant Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Beans Hambone, Acoustic Blues, Appalachian Folk, Blues, Blues Collections, Country Blues, Harmonica Blues, Jug Band, Minstrel, Old-Timey, Pop, Songster, String Bands, V/a Compilations

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

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