America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band
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America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band

The Maddox Brothers & Rose were America's most colorful hillbilly band all right, and not just because they wore snazzy sequined Western suits that screamed louder than a blast of TNT. Everything they did was at the top of their lungs, from sister Rose's effectively braying twang and tittering, high-pitched asides to the brothers' nuclear-charged postwar fusion of boogie-woogie, Western swing, and California honky-tonk. Most colorful of all was the group's aesthetic--unabashed emotionalism on a poignant gospel ballad such as "When I Lay My Burden Down" alternating with broad comedy displayed on covers of "Milk Cow Blues" and "Honky Tonkin'." "Got a hillbilly band called Maddox and Rose ... [and] they play a boogie-woogie that'll wiggle your toes," Rose guffaws on "George's Playhouse Boogie." Never has such a colorful self-description been so accurate. --David Cantwell

  • TitleAmerica's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band
  • BrandMaddox Brothers & Rose
  • ManufacturerARHOOLIE RECORDS
  • BindingAudio CD
  • ProductGroupMusic
  • ItemPartNumberCDARH391
  • ModelCDARH391
  • ReleaseDate2009-05-13T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • UPCs096297039120
  • EANs0096297039120