Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows

Various Artists

Old Hat

A double CD set with a 72 page booklet. Subtitled "Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937".

Tracks & Performers

• The Spasm - Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah
• Tanner's Boarding House - Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett
• Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - Lil McClintock
• Hokum Blues - Dallas String Band
• Jimbo Jambo Land - Shorty Godwin
• Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate - Fiddlin' John Carson
• Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad - Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley
• The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man - Charlie Parker
• Bye, Bye Policeman - Jim Jackson
• The Bald-Headed End of a Broom - Walter Smith
• Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers
• Beans - Beans Hambone and El Morrow
• A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around - Stovepipe Number One
• Tell It to Me - Grant Brothers
• Ain't No Use Working So Hard - Carolina Tar Heels
• Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - Walter Cole
• C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - Kirk McGee and Blythe Poteet
• My Money Never Runs Out - Banjo Joe
• Railroadin' Some - Henry Thomas
• Traveling Man - Albert Hunt Texas Ramblers
• G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - Johnson-Nelson- Porkchop
• Baby All Night Long - Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers
• Born in Hard Luck - Chris Bouchillon
• He's in the Jailhouse Now - Memphis Sheiks
• Gonna Tip Out Tonight - Pink Anderson and Simmie Dooley
• Chevrolet Car - Sam McGee
• It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers
• Bring It with You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers
• Atlanta Strut - Blind Sammie
• Go Along Mule - Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar...
• Casey Bill - Earl McDonald and the Original Louisville Jug Band
• I Got Mine - Frank Stokes
• Hannah - Chris Bouchillon
• Adam & Eve in the Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
• Mysterious Coon - Alec Johnson & His Band
• Her Name Was Hula Lou - Carolina Tar Heels
• Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
• Scoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson
• Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
• The Cat's Got the Measles, The Dog's Got the Whooping Cough - Walter Smith
• Shout You Cats - Hesekiah Jenkins
• Nobody's Business If I Do - Tommie Bradley
• Sweet Sixteen - Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
• Ticklish Reuben - Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright
• I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop - Jim Jackson
• Shine - Dallas String Band
• The Gypsy - Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
• Kiss Me Candy - J.E. Mainer Mountaineers