Everybody Hollerin' Goat
Editorial Reviews
<"b000005hoi7590"> Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Othar Turner is the living master of the cane fife, a short piece of hollowed-out sugar cane with holes. The simplistic, tranced-out party music known as fife and drum--the most clearly African-sounding of all traditional blues--remained all but hidden to most listeners until 1959, when Alan Lomax first encountered and recorded it in Mississippi. There are but a handful of records of real fife and drum music, and this clear-sounding document, with multiple versions of the classic "Shimmy She Wobble," might be the best record yet made of this intoxicating sound. --Mike McGonigal
<"b000005hoi7499"> Amazon.com
Othar Turner is one of the last practitioners of a musical form teetering perilously close to extinction. As he'll gladly tell you himself, Turner has been playing Southern fife and drum music for eight of his nine decades. Though he's appeared on several blues compilations over the years, Goat is the most substantive and satisfying survey of Turner's unique talents. Recorded by guitarist Luther Dickinson (son of Jim) and author Robert Gordon (It Came from Memphis) at barbecue parties held on... read more
<"b000005hoi4996"> Album Description
The first full length from the man behind the drum and fife sound, possibly the only modern primitive trance music that appeals to the drum-and-bass inclined and blues fans. Even Rolling Stone recognized it as one of the five best blues records of the 90's. Originally recorded between 1992 & 1997. Birdman. 2001.
Everybody Hollerin' Goat
Everybody Hollerin' Goat, Music, Othar Turner & the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Blues, Delta Blues, Pop, Popular Music, Prewar Country Blues, Rock/Pop
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