| Everybody Hollerin' Goat | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Othar Turner |
| Cover: | Everybody Hollerin' Goat.jpg |
| Released: | 1998 |
| Genre: | Hill country blues,[1] fife and drum blues |
| Label: | Birdman[2] |
| 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.[3] [4] He is credited with the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band.[5] Turner was 90 when he recorded the album.[6] The title refers to Turner's barbecued goat parties.[7]
Recorded mostly on Turner's north Mississippi farm, the album was produced by Luther Dickinson.[8] [9] R.L. Boyce, Turner's nephew, contributed to the album.[10] 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.[11] Dickinson first noticed Turner when the fife player appeared on a 1970s episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.[12] Dickinson sampled Everybody Hollerin' Goat on his North Mississippi Allstars album Shake Hands with Shorty.[13]
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.[14] [15] Chris Morris listed Everybody Hollerin' Goat as the second best album of 1998.[16]
AllMusic called the album "a collection of haunting, authentic Mississippi-born fife and drum blues."