| Everybody Hollerin' Goat | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Hill country blues, [1] fife and drum blues | |||
| Label | Birdman [2] | |||
| Producer | Luther Dickinson | |||
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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]
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]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| 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]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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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