16 Down Home Country Classics

Arhoolie Records - CD 110

Format: CD, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1997
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, & Country
[Tracklist]
01 Single Girl: Rose Maddox (2:09)
02 No Never No: Strange Creek Singers (4:09)
03 Run Mountain: J.E. Mainer (2:52)
04 Spanish Fandango: Snuffy Jenkins (1:23)
05 Eight Thirty Blues: The Armstrong Twins (2:09)
06 Hey, Hey Bartender: Del McCoury (2:38)
07 Sam McGee Stomp: Sam McGee (2:04)
08 Old Dan Tucker: Louisiana Honey Drippers (2:20)
09 You Turned Your Back: Toni Brown (2:17)
10 Carroll County Blues: Suzy and Eric Thompson (3:18)
11 George's Playhouse Boogie: Maddox Brothers & Rose (2:44)
12 John Barleycorn: Kenny Baker (2:11)
13 Black Land Farmer: Bill Neely (3:48)
14 Turkey Buzzard / Chinquapin Hunting: Any Old Time String Band (2:46)
15 Hello Stranger: The Carter Family (2:09)
16 Bogue Chito Fling Ding: Hodges Brothers (1:56)
[Credits]
Producer and Editor: Chris Strachwitz and Tom Diamant, Photographer: Barry Oliver, Designer: Wayne Pope and Craig Millman
[Notes]
"Down home" country music originated in the Appalachian region of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of the 20th century. Played using acoustical stringed instruments, traditional country music is derived from English folk songs along with elements of gospel and blues. This collection presents 16 examples of traditional country music and includes tracks from the Carter Family, the Strange Creek Singers with Hazel Dickens, Rose Maddox, and NEA National Heritage Fellow Del McCoury. Liner notes include each track's original Arhoolie album for further listening.

This Ain't No Mouse Music!

Arhoolie Records - ARH00545

Format: 2 x CD, Soundtrack, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2014
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun & Zydeco, Countr, Jazz & Ragtime, Latin
[Disk One]
01 Bald Headed Woman: Lightnin' Hopkins (3:50)
02 Barbershop Rhythm: Wade Walton & R.C. Smith (2:26)
03 I Want To Live and Love: Maddox Brothers & Rose (2:07)
04 I'm Working On a Building: Rev. Louis Overstreet (6:59)
05 Tom Moore's Farm: Mance Lipscomb (3:29)
06 Lady Luck: Mercy Dee Walton (2:48)
07 Mercury Blues (Mercury Boogie): K.C. Douglas (2:39)
08 Write Me a Few of Your Lines: Fred McDowell (3:37)
09 Wade in the Water: Big Mama Thornton (2:54)
10 Sloppy Drunk Blues: Big Joe Williams (2:49)
11 I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag: Country Joe McDonald (2:58)
12 Mama Don't Allow: George Lewis (3:03)
13 The Shiner Song: Joe Patek's Orchestra (2:42)
14 Calinda (La Reel de Barza): Michael Doucet & Dennis McGee (3:21)
15 Malinda: Canray Fontenot (1:06)
16 Bosco Stomp: Michael Doucet and David Doucet (2:57)
17 Burgundy Street Blues: Sammy Rimington & His Hot Six (4:14)
18 Creole Belles: New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra (3:03)
19 Over the Waves: Sammy Rimington & the Creole All Stars (4:32)
20 Big Fat Woman: Treme Brass Band & Henry Youngblood (2:19)
[Disk Two]
01 Fiddle Two-Step: Wilson & Joel Savoy (3:11)
02 Two-Step de Amede: The Savoy Family Band (4:32)
03 Louisiana Blues: Clifton Chenier (5:03)
04 Bye Bye Mo Neg: Clifton Chenier (5:37)
05 Los Ojos de Pancha: Los Alegres de Terán (2:02)
06 Nuestro Amor: Santiago Jiménez, Jr. (2:05)
07 Un Mojado Sin Licencia (A Wetbaack Without a License): Flaco Jiménez (3:39)
08 Mal Hombre: Lydia Mendoza (3:30)
09 En Cada Vida Hay Un Momento: Leo Garza (4:33)
10 La Tumba Sera El Final: Flaco Jimenez y Tomás Ortíz (2:20)
11 Let's Have a Ball: Ry Cooder & Flaco Jimenez (6:06)
12 Flor de Capomo: Los Cenzontles (2:26)
13 Golden Slippers: Whitetop Mountain Band Jam (2:12)
14 Ruby: No Speed Limit (5:54)
15 Grayson County Blues: No Speed Limit (3:36)
16 Pine Grove Blues: Pine Leaf Boys (4:40)
17 Oh, Franklin!: Cajun Jam (6:20)
18 Just a Little While / When the Saints Go Marching In: The Treme Brass Band (4:28)
[Credits]
Producer and Liner Notes: Chris Strachwitz and Adam Machado. Producer and Editor: Tom Diamant, Recorder: David Silberberg, Engineer: Nino Moschella
[Notes]
"This Ain’t No Mouse Music!" is the companion soundtrack to the documentary film of the same name. Released in 2014, the film followed Arhoolie founder Chris Strachwitz as he revisited many of the singers and musicians whom he had recorded over a 50-year period. Arhoolie, a slang expression for "field holler," focused on American roots music ranging from country blues to Cajun and zydeco, Tex-Mex and norteño, bluegrass, and New Orleans jazz. The music in this 2-CD soundtrack is only a small sample of what Strachwitz recorded or produced.

Maddox Brothers & Rose: America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band

Arhoolie Records CD-391

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Rockabilly
[Tracklist]
01 George's Playhouse Boogie (2:45)
02 Midnight Train (3:06)
03 Shimmy Shakin' Daddy (2:11)
04 Careless Driver (2:50)
05 Move It On Over (2:47)
06 Whoa Sailor (2:36)
07 Milk Cow Blues (3:11)
08 Mean And Wicked Boogie (2:40)
09 Brown Eyes (2:58)
10 Honky Tonkin' (2:27)
11 Time Nor Tide (3:09)
12 New Mule Skinner Blues (2:10)
13 Philadelphia Lawyer (3:15)
14 Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down (2:19)
15 When I Lay My Burden Down (2:16)
16 Hangover Blues (2:38)
17 Water Baby Boogie (2:10)
18 Dark As A Dungeon (2:23)
19 Mule Train (2:56)
20 Oklahoma Sweetheart Sally Ann (2:15)
21 Faded Love (2:42)
22 New Step It Up And Go (2:29)
23 (Pay Me) Alimony (2:13)
24 I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again (2:13)
25 Your Love Light Never Shone (2:02)
26 Meanest Man In Town (2:33)
27 I Want To Live And Love (2:05)
[Credits]
Rose Maddox, Don Maddox (vocals) Fred Maddox (bass/vocals) Don Maddox (fiddle) Henry Maddox (mandolin/guitar) Cliff Maddox (mandolin) Cal Maddox (guitar/harmonica) Gene Breeden, Jimmy Winkle, Roy Nichols (guitar) Bud Duncan (steel guitar)
Reissue Producer: Chris Strachwitz, Designer: Wayne Pope, Liner Notes: Keith Olesen
[Notes]
The Maddox Brothers & Rose were America's most colorful hillbilly band all right, and not just because they wore snazzy sequined Western suits that screamed louder than a blast of TNT. Everything they did was at the top of their lungs, from sister Rose's effectively braying twang and tittering, high-pitched asides to the brothers' nuclear-charged postwar fusion of boogie-woogie, Western swing, and California honky-tonk. Most colorful of all was the group's aesthetic--unabashed emotionalism on a poignant gospel ballad such as "When I Lay My Burden Down" alternating with broad comedy displayed on covers of "Milk Cow Blues" and "Honky Tonkin'." "Got a hillbilly band called Maddox and Rose ... [and] they play a boogie-woogie that'll wiggle your toes," Rose guffaws on "George's Playhouse Boogie." Never has such a colorful self-description been so accurate. --David Cantwell