Everybody Hollerin' Goat
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{{Infobox album
| name = Everybody Hollerin' Goat
| type = studio
| artist = Othar Turner
| cover = Everybody Hollerin' Goat.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Hill country blues,{{cite news |last1=Smiderle |first1=Wes |title=Mississippi blues stars to make Canadian debut |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=21 Sep 2000 |page=E3}} fife and drum blues
| length =
| label = Birdman{{cite magazine |last1=McGonigal |first1=Mike |title=Reviews |magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly |date=Jun 1998 |issue=58 |page=52}}
| producer = Luther Dickinson
| prev_title = Mississippi Blues in Memphis Vol. 1
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = From Senegal to Senatobia
| next_year = 1999
}}
Everybody Hollerin' Goat is an album by the American musician Othar Turner, released in 1998.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQU3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA324|title=The Blues Encyclopedia|first1=Edward|last1=Komara|first2=Peter|last2=Lee|date=July 24, 2004|publisher=Routledge}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSbw5i0x_5sC&pg=PA388|title=Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music|first=Ted|last=Gioia|date=October 24, 2008|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company}} He is credited with the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/otha-turner-mn0002369832/biography|title=Otha Turner Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}} Turner was 90 when he recorded the album.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DGCHA4CEHoC&pg=PA103|title=Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey Through the Soul of the South|first=Susan|last=Puckett|date=January 1, 2013|publisher=University of Georgia Press}} The title refers to Turner's barbecued goat parties.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sParDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA293|title=The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation|first1=Frank|last1=Gunderson|first2=Robert C.|last2=Lancefield|first3=Bret|last3=Woods|date=September 9, 2019|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
Production
Recorded mostly on Turner's north Mississippi farm, the album was produced by Luther Dickinson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NKwQyNiP9EC&pg=PA279|title=It Came from Memphis|first=Robert|last=Gordon|date=November 24, 2001|publisher=Simon and Schuster}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.riverfronttimes.com/music/shortys-groove-2472879|title=Shorty's Groove|first=Daniel|last=Durchholz|work=Riverfront Times}} R.L. Boyce, Turner's nephew, contributed to the album.{{cite magazine |last1=Morris |first1=Chris |title=Hill Country Godfather |magazine=Billboard |date=Feb 28, 1998 |volume=110 |issue=9 |page=60}} The sessions took place between 1992 and 1997. It was Dickinson's intention to simply make a document of Turner's music for Turner and his family.{{cite news |last1=Gray |first1=Melissa |title=Fife and Drums |work=All Things Considered |agency=NPR |date=March 25, 1998}} Dickinson first noticed Turner when the fife player appeared on a 1970s episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.{{cite news |last1=DeLuca |first1=Dan |title=The Long March |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=April 27, 2000 |page=D1}} Dickinson sampled Everybody Hollerin' Goat on his North Mississippi Allstars album Shake Hands with Shorty.{{cite news |last1=Herrington |first1=Chris |title=Blues Travelers |work=Miami New Times |date=November 2, 2000 |department=Music}}
Critical reception
{{music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/everybody-hollerin-goat-mw0000237515|title=The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Otha Turner Everybody Hollerin' Goat|website=AllMusic}}
|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=296}}
|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings
|rev4score = {{rating|4|4}}{{cite book |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |date=2006 |publisher=Penguin Books Ltd |page=664}}
}}
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.{{cite magazine |last1=Fricke |first1=David |title=On the Edge |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=Sep 17, 1998 |issue=795 |page=98}}{{cite magazine |last1=McGee |first1=David |title=Blues |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 13, 1999 |issue=812 |page=65}} Chris Morris listed Everybody Hollerin' Goat as the second best album of 1998.{{cite magazine |title=The critics' poll |magazine=Billboard |date=Dec 26, 1998 |volume=110 |issue=52 |pages=YE32, YE75}}
AllMusic called the album "a collection of haunting, authentic Mississippi-born fife and drum blues."
Track listing
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| title1 = Shimmy She Wobble
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| title2 = Bounceball
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| title3 = Short'nin' / Henduck
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| title4 = Too Slow
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| title5 = Shimmy She Wobble
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| title6 = Station Blues
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| title7 = Shake 'Em
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| title8 = My Babe
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| title9 = Boogie
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| title10 = How Many Mo' Years?
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| title11 = Roll and Tumble
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| title12 = 2-Stepping Place
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| title13 = Granny, Do Your Dog Bite?
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| title14 = Shimmy She Wobble
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| title15 = Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
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}}