Everybody Hollerin' Goat

Everybody Hollerin' Goat
Studio album by
Othar Turner
Released1998
GenreHill country blues,[1] fife and drum blues
LabelBirdman[2]
ProducerLuther Dickinson
Othar Turner chronology
Mississippi Blues in Memphis Vol. 1
(1993) 		Everybody Hollerin' Goat
(1998) 		From Senegal to Senatobia
(1999)

Everybody Hollerin' Goat is an album by the American musician Othar Turner, released in 1998.[3][4] He is credited with the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band.[5] Turner was 90 when he recorded the album.[6] The title refers to Turner's barbecued goat parties.[7]

Production

Recorded mostly on Turner's north Mississippi farm, the album was produced by Luther Dickinson.[8][9][10] R.L. Boyce, Turner's nephew, contributed to the album.[11] The sessions took place between 1992 and 1997.[12] It was Dickinson's intention to simply make a document of Turner's music for Turner and his family.[13] Dickinson first noticed Turner when the fife player appeared on a 1970s episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.[14] Dickinson sampled Everybody Hollerin' Goat on his North Mississippi Allstars album Shake Hands with Shorty.[15]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[16]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[17]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings[12]

Rolling Stone wrote that the band rocks "like a nineteenth-century P-Funk, making exhilarating rhythm poetry out of rudimentary tools and ancient, buoyant soul"; the magazine, in 1999, deemed Everybody Hollerin' Goat one of the best blues albums of the 1990s.[8][18] Chris Morris listed Everybody Hollerin' Goat as the second best album of 1998.[19]

AllMusic called the album "a collection of haunting, authentic Mississippi-born fife and drum blues."[16]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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, Hallelujah!" 

References

  1. ^ Smiderle, Wes (21 Sep 2000). "Mississippi blues stars to make Canadian debut". Ottawa Citizen. p. E3.
  2. ^ McGonigal, Mike (Jun 1998). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 58. p. 52.
  3. ^ Komara, Edward; Lee, Peter (July 24, 2004). The Blues Encyclopedia. Routledge.
  4. ^ Gioia, Ted (October 24, 2008). Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. W. W. Norton & Company.
  5. ^ "Otha Turner Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Puckett, Susan (January 1, 2013). Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey Through the Soul of the South. University of Georgia Press.
  7. ^ Gunderson, Frank; Lancefield, Robert C.; Woods, Bret (September 9, 2019). The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation. Oxford University Press.
  8. ^ a b Fricke, David (Sep 17, 1998). "On the Edge". Rolling Stone. No. 795. p. 98.
  9. ^ Gordon, Robert (November 24, 2001). It Came from Memphis. Simon and Schuster.
  10. ^ Durchholz, Daniel. "Shorty's Groove". Riverfront Times.
  11. ^ Morris, Chris (Feb 28, 1998). "Hill Country Godfather". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 9. p. 60.
  12. ^ a b The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin Books Ltd. 2006. p. 664.
  13. ^ Gray, Melissa (March 25, 1998). "Fife and Drums". All Things Considered. NPR.
  14. ^ DeLuca, Dan (April 27, 2000). "The Long March". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D1.
  15. ^ Herrington, Chris (November 2, 2000). "Blues Travelers". Music. Miami New Times.
  16. ^ a b "The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Otha Turner Everybody Hollerin' Goat". AllMusic.
  17. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 296.
  18. ^ McGee, David (May 13, 1999). "Blues". Rolling Stone. No. 812. p. 65.
  19. ^ "The critics' poll". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 52. Dec 26, 1998. pp. YE32, YE75.