Good For What Ails You: Music Of Medicine / Var Good For What Ails You: Music Of Medicine / Var CD

Here is a collection of extremely rare early American music. Before movies, radio and television, the traveling Medicine Shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixers and miracle cures and with them came a host of singers, dancers, comedians, banjo pickers, blues shouters, jug blowers and minstrel singers. This compilation features the music from the original arts from the Medicine Shows recorded between 1926-1937. Featuring tracks by: Pnk Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Gid Tanner, Blind Sammie, Bogus Ben Convington, Fiddlin' John Carson among others colorful characters.

1. The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe ; Mississippi Sarah 2. Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner ; Riley Puckett 3. Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock 4. Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones 5. Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin 6. Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson ; His Virginia Reelers 7. Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad - Pink Anderson ; Simmie Dooley 8. The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man - Charlie Parker ; Mack Woolbright 9. Bye, Bye, Policeman - Jim Jackson 10. The Bald-Headed End of a Broom - Walter Smith 11. Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers 12. Beans - Beans Hambone ; El Morrow 13. A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around - Stovepipe # 1 and David Crockett 14. Tell It to Me - Grant Brothers ; Their Music 15. Ain't No Use Working So Hard - Carolina Tar Heels 16. Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - Walter Cole 17. C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - Kirk McGee ; Blythe Poteet 18. My Money Never Runs Out - Banjo Joe 19. Railroadin' Some - Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" 20. Traveling Man - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers 21. G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop 22. Baby All Night Long - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers 23. Born in Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon 24. He's in the Jailhouse Now - Memphis Sheiks 25. Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson ; Simmie Dooley 26. Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee 27. It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner ; His Skillet-Lickers 28. Bring It with You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers 29. Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie 30. Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon ; His Fruit Jar Drinkers 31. Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band 32. I Got Mine - Frank Stokes 33. Hannah - Chris Bouchillon 34. Adam ; Eve in the Garden - Bogus Ben Covington 35. Mysterious Coon - Alec Johnson ; His Band 36. Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels 37. Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags 38. Scoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson 39. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison 40. The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough - Walter Smith 41. Shout You Cats - Hezekiah Jenkins 42. Nobody's Business If I Do - Tommie Bradley 43. Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole ; the North Carolina Ramblers 44. Ticklish Reuben - Charlie Parker ; Mack Woolbright 45. I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop - Jim Jackson 46. Shine - Dallas String Band with Coley Jones 47. The Gypsy - Emmett Miller ; His Georgia Crackers 48. Kiss Me Cindy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers