America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band

by Rose Maddox

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1.	George's Playhouse Boogie 02:45	buy track
2.	Midnight Train 03:05	buy track
3.	Shimmy Shakin' Daddy 02:11	buy track
4.	Careless Driver 02:49	buy track
5.	Move It On Over 02:46	buy track
6.	Whoa Sailor 02:36	buy track
7.	Milk Cow Blues 03:10	buy track
8.	Mean And Wicked Boogie 02:39	buy track
9.	Brown Eyes 02:58	buy track
10.	Honky Tonkin' 02:27	buy track
11.	Time Nor Tide 03:09	buy track
12.	New Mule Skinner Blues 02:10	buy track
13.	Philadelphia Lawyer 03:15	buy track
14.	Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down 02:18	buy track
15.	When I Lay My Burden Down 02:16	buy track
16.	Hangover Blues 02:37	buy track
17.	Water Baby Boogie 02:09	buy track
18.	Dark As The Dungeon 02:23	buy track
19.	Mule Train 02:56	buy track
20.	Oklahoma Sweetheart Sally Ann 02:15	buy track
21.	Faded Love 02:41	buy track
22.	New Step It Up And Go 02:28	buy track
23.	(Pay Me) Alimony 02:12	buy track
24.	I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again 02:13	buy track
25.	Your Love Light Never Shone 02:02	buy track
26.	Meanest Man in Town 02:33	buy track
27.	I Want To Live and Love 02:05	buy track

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They called themselves “America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Band” and performed from the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s. Fronted by singing sister Rose, the Maddox brothers—Fred, Cal, Cliff, and Don (brother Henry replaced Cliff, who died in 1949)—played and sang a range of music that included country, Western, boogie-woogie, and honky-tonk; they lumped the styles together into the catchall category of hillbilly music. This compilation is selected from recordings made between 1946 and 1951 and includes Woody Guthrie’s “Philadelphia Lawyer” and their theme song, “I Want to Live and Love.”

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released January 1, 1976

1976, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Arhoolie Records.

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