Old Hat compilation spotlights medicine shows (Reuters)
 

Reuters - One of the fall's more curious
and enlightening CD sets comes from acclaimed reissue label Old
Hat Records. The 48-song collection "Good for What Ails You:
Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937," released October 4,
documents the banjo-pickers and bluesmen who performed during
the shows' latter years, humorously drawing from folk, blues
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