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

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Spasm
Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah2:52
2Tanner's Boarding House
Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett3:05
3Don't Think I'm Santa Claus
Lil McClintock3:05
4Hokum Blues
Dallas String Band with Coley Jones3:14
5Jimbo Jambo Land
Shorty Godwin2:57
6Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate
Fiddlin’ John Carson and His Virginia Reelers2:57
7Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad
Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley2:59
8The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man
Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright3:14
9Bye, Bye, Policeman
Jim Jackson3:03
10The Bald-Headed End of a Broom
Walter Smith2:56
11Bow Wow Blues
The Allen Brothers3:21
12Beans
Beans Hambone and El Morrow2:53
13A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around
recorded in:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States (on 1927-04-26)
guitar:
David Crockett (early blues musician) (on 1927-04-26)
harmonica, wind instruments [stovepipe] and lead vocals:
Stovepipe No. 1 (Samuel Chambers Jones) (on 1927-04-26)
Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett3:08
14Tell It to Me
Grant Brothers & Their Music2:56
15Ain't No Use Working So Hard
Carolina Tar Heels3:08
16Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean
Walter Cole2:47
17C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken
Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet2:54
18My Money Never Runs Out
Banjo Joe2:53
19Railroadin' Some
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
guitar, solo syrinx [reed pipes] and solo lead vocals:
Henry Thomas (American country blues singer)
recording of:
Railroadin' Some
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Henry Thomas (American country blues singer)
Henry Thomas3:19
20Traveling Man
Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers2:55
21G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again
Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop3:00
22Baby All Night Long
Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers2:47
23Born in Hard Luck
Chris Bouchillon3:19
24He's in the Jailhouse Now
recorded in:
Memphis, Tennessee, United States (on 1930-11-21)
banjo and mandolin:
Vol Stevens (on 1930-11-21)
guitar:
Charlie Burse (on 1930-11-21)
harmonica:
Will Shade (on 1930-11-21)
jug:
Jab Jones (on 1930-11-21)
vocals:
Charlie Nickerson (on 1930-11-21)
Memphis Sheiks3:11
CD 2

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Release

ASIN:US: B000B5KRNO [info]
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