Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet): MusicNear.com

Music CD 1

The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett
Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock
Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones
Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin
Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
Bye, Bye, Policeman - Jim Jackson
The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - Walter Smith
Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers
Beans - Beans Hambone & El Morrow
A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - Stovepipe # 1 and David Crockett
Tell It To Me - Grant Brothers & Their Music
Ain't No Use Working So Hard - Carolina Tar Heels
Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - Walter Cole
C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet
My Money Never Runs Out - Banjo Joe
Railroadin' Some - Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"
Traveling Man - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
Baby All Night Long - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers
Born In Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon
He's In The Jailhouse Now - Memphis Sheiks

Music CD 2

Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers
Bring It With You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers
Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie
Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
I Got Mine - Frank Stokes
Hannah - Chris Bouchillon
Adam & Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
Mysterious Coon - Alec Johnson & His Band
Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels
Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
Scoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson
Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - Walter Smith
Shout You Cats - Hezekiah Jenkins
Nobody's Business If I Do - Tommie Bradley
Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
Ticklish Reuben - Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - Jim Jackson
Shine - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones
The Gypsy - Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
Kiss Me Cindy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers

Free Music Notes for Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)

Free Music Review: like finding buried treasure
Hit: 5 Stars

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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 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)