CD 110

Arhoolie's American masters is a mid-line sampler series culled from our full price CDs. Each CD features the best known artists of a particular musical genre. Inside the booklet each song is referenced to the CD it originally came from, with a photo mini of that CD cover and a listing of the artist's other Arhoolie CDs.

1. Single Girl
2. No Never No
3. Run Mountain
4. Spanish Fandango
5. Eight Thirty Blues
6. Hey, Hey Bartender
7. Sam McGee Stomp
8. Old Dan Trucker
9. Carroll County Blues
10. You Turned Your Back
11. George's Playhouse Boogie
12. John Barleycorn
13. Black Land Farmer
14. Turkey Buzzard/Chinquapin Hunting
15. Hello Stranger
16. Bogue Chito Fling Ding

REVIEW

“Cheekily titled, this isn’t a collection of hits at all, but a sampler from the Arhoolie label. It’s still brilliant. The Armstrong Twins’ ‘Eight Thirty Blues’ has bravura picking that plays more games with tempo than bop allows, let alone rock. As a Maddox brother exclaims during a guitar break: ‘I can’t stand it, it’s driving me sane!’ If the roots of rock are this fantastic, how come the flowers in the shops are looking so sad?”

(Ben Watson — Wire)