Track Listing

1. Shimmy She Wobble
2. Bounceball
3. Short'nin/Henduck
4. Too Slow
5. Shimmy She Wobble
6. Station Blues
7. Shake 'Em
8. My Babe
9. Boogie
10. How Many Mo' Years?
11. Roll And Tumble
12. 2-Stepping Place
13. Granny, Do Your Dog Bite?
14. Shimmy She Wobble
15. Glory, Glory, Halleleujah!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73234 in Music
• Released on: 1998-02-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From 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 Turner's Tate County, Mississippi, farm, Goat sways from delicate grace to shine-fueled hill-country blues to shambolic spiritual evocation. It is every bit as essential a document of America's folk-music heritage as anything Harry Smith or Alan Lomax ever offered up for posterity. And as a promising side note, Turner's band includes some of his children and grandchildren, hopefully ensuring that when he does leave this world, the fife and drum tradition won't leave with him. --Matt Hanks

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.