Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2014
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
01 Searcy County Rag: Ashley's Melody Men (02:54)
02 Get Along Home, Miss Cindy: Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers (03:24)
03 The Higher Up the Monkey Climbs: Fiddling Bob Larkin & His Music Makers (03:02)
04 My Ozark Mountain Home: George Edgin's Corn Dodgers (03:16)
05 Just Give Me the Leavings: Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers (03:01)
06 Bath House Blues: Ashley's Melody Men (02:54)
07 Fort Smith Breakdown: Luke Highnight's Ozark Strutters (02:48)
08 Eigth of January: Arkansas Barefoot Boys (03:00)
09 McLeods Reel: Bob Larkan (02:53)
10 The Old Dinner Pail: A.E. Ward & His Plow Boys (03:18)
11 My Castle on the Nile: Wonder State Harmonists (02:25)
12 Dry and Dusty: The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band (02:45)
13 Jaw Bone: Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers (03:03)
14 Arkansas Hard Luck Blues: Lonnie Glosson (02:45)
15 Paddy, Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider?: Bob Larkin & His Music Makers (02:57)
16 Corn Dodger No. 1 Special: George Edgin's Corn Dodgers (02:59)
17 Ozark Mountain Rose: Bonnie Dodd / Murray Lucas (02:32)
18 Ozark Waltz: The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band (02:59)
19 Robinson County: L.O. Birkhead / R.M Lane (03:07)
20 The Arkansas Hotel: George Edgin's Corn Dodgers (03:05)
21 Going to Leave Old Arkansas: A.E. Ward & His Plow Boys (03:08)
22 Petit Jean Gallop: Wonder State Harmonists (03:02)
23 Silver Nail: Bob Larkan (02:56)
24 Drunkard's Hecups: Reaves White County Ramblers (02:52)
25 Turnip Greens: Wonder State Harmonists (02:46)
26 Lonnie's Fox Chase: Lonnie Glosson (03:18)
[Credits]
Producer: April G. Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter and Carrie Beth Hodge, Designer: Cubby West, Liner Notes: Tony Russell, Engineer: Michael Graves
[Notes]
Arkansas pretty much represented the cultural wild frontier for the rest of the United States when commercial recording began in the early 1900s, home to unhinged string bands, fiddle players, and banjo pickers, and if the tunes recorded by Arkansas musicians in those days were pretty much standard string band material, well, things just seemed to be a little crazier when it was filtered through the Ozarks. This fascinating set, drawn from 78s released between 1928 and 1937, features some odd and even spooky sides, like Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers' "Jaw Bone," which veers along on its own inner madness, George Edgin's Corn Dodgers' "Corn Dodger Special No. 1," and a version of "Cacklin' Hen" that sounds like a drunken string band (with a cello!) trying to be a flock rhythmic chickens and somehow actually pulling it off. There are many such wonders here, making this set yet another fine and vital Dust-to-Digital release.-- AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
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