Arkansas pretty much represented the cultural wild frontier for the rest of the United States when commercial recording began in the early 1900s, home to unhinged string bands, fiddle players, and banjo pickers, and if the tunes recorded by Arkansas musicians in those days were pretty much standard string band material, well, things just seemed to be a little crazier when it was filtered through the Ozarks. This fascinating set, drawn from 78s released between 1928 and 1937, features some odd and even spooky sides, like Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers' "Jaw Bone," which veers along on its own inner madness, George Edgin's Corn Dodgers' "Corn Dodger Special No. 1," and a version of "Cacklin' Hen" that sounds like a drunken string band (with a cello!) trying to be a flock rhythmic chickens and somehow actually pulling it off. There are many such wonders here, making this set yet another fine and vital Dust-to-Digital release. ~ Steve Leggett
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