The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show

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Here's a web review quoted from:
FlagPole Magazine

This week's Ghostmeat Presents Saturday Afternoon At The High Hat will feature the inimitable Willie and The Hand Factory (a studio project made real, featuring our very own Bill Scoggins) and South Carolina's Drovers Old Time Medicine Show (not to be confused with Chicago's Drovers). You're probably familiar with Bill's "John-Prine-with-a-chip-on-his-shoulder" material, but you definitely need to stick around for the Drovers, who are to bluegrass what Neil Armstrong is to the moon, i.e. you won't find anything else like this happening in Athens.

Here's a web review quoted from:

And now for something completely different... From the foothills of South Carolina come Dr. Ignatius, Cecil, Uncle Carl, Cousin Ray, Clovis, Homer, and a bunch of other cousins, affectionately known as The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show. What they give us here could very well be the soundtrack as the Hatfields and McCoys lay down their guns and empty the stills together. Now, I'll be the first to admit that my bluegrass knowledge doesn't extend much past hollering some of the words to "Rocky Top" in the college bars a few years back, but I know a good time when I hear it. Most of the songs here are originals, but you can also find some Flatt And Scruggs in "Dear Old Dixie", as well as a couple of traditionals. The picking is at its best in the instrumentals such as "Tomahawk" and "Prater's Creek Waltz", as well as the shit kickin' "Trouble Trouble" and "Livwright's General Store". Mixed in among the songs is a little hillbilly soap opera, with dialog from the boys and their dealings with the governor (Dingus) and some nasty revenuers. The chorus in "We Got Moonshine" has perhaps the best lines - "In The Carolina mountains, we have sweet and flowing fountains. On every little hill we have a still." So grab your jug, don your overalls, and I'll meet you in the hills. Be sure to tell Clovis to bring his washboard.

The Drovers performed at the
Capital City Barn Dance

on June 6, 1997 at the Floodzone.

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