Everybody Hollerin' Goat

Everybody Hollerin' Goat is an album by the American musician Othar Turner, released in 1998. He is credited with the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. Turner was 90 when he recorded the album. The title refers to Turner's barbecued goat parties.

Production

Recorded mostly on Turner's north Mississippi farm, the album was produced by Luther Dickinson. R.L. Boyce, Turner's nephew, contributed to the album. 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. Dickinson first noticed Turner when the fife player appeared on a 1970s episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Dickinson sampled Everybody Hollerin' Goat on his North Mississippi Allstars album Shake Hands with Shorty.

Critical reception

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. Chris Morris listed Everybody Hollerin' Goat as the second best album of 1998.
AllMusic called the album "a collection of haunting, authentic Mississippi-born fife and drum blues."