Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)
A Sonic Tonic: One of the fall's more curious and enlightening CD sets comes from acclaimed reissue label Old Hat. --Todd Martens - Billboard/Reuters Oct 15, 2005Annual Critics' Poll of the year's best records. --Top 20 Reissues of 2005 - No Depression Jan/Feb 2006As academia continues to pry open American show business' minstrel past, Ails is a fascinating illustration of its musical appeal. --Michaelangelo Matos - City Pages/Seattle Weekly Nov 30, 2005Fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music may well find that this one is even wilder. --Steve Leggett - All Music Guide Nov 2005Good For What Ails You is just amazing - expansive, odd, moving, confusing, glorious. --Greil Marcus - author The Old, Weird America Oct 2005Listening, one can almost smell the Kickapoo Indian Salve. Pitches may have been purest snake oil, but music still delights. --Chris Morris - Hollywood Reporter/Reuters Dec 29, 2005Rare tracks from the heyday of the snake oil vendors. Weird folk and blackface balladry for Harry Smith Anthology addict. --Top 10 Reissue of the Year - MOJO Jan 2006