Everybody Hollerin' Goat

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Everybody Hollerin' Goat
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Studio album by
Released1998
Genre Hill country blues, [1] fife and drum blues
Label Birdman [2]
Producer Luther 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]

Contents

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 Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [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!" 

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