Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight: Ugly and Slouchy

Personnel: Rose Maddox (vocals, guitar); Retta Maddox (vocals); Edward O. Cletro, Joe Maphis (guitar, banjo); Chet Atkins, Jack Shook, Velma E. Williams Smith, Jimmy Rollins, Joe Knight , Sam Pruett, Johnny Bond, Ray Edenton, Merle Travis, Billy Strange (guitar); Robert Lee "Bob" Foster, Johnny Sibert, George McCoy (steel guitar); Thomas Lee Jackson Jr., Joseph A. DeRose, Hal Smith , Jerry Rivers, Bobby Bruce (fiddle); Floyd Cramer, Marvin H. Hughes, Harold Carmack (piano); Milton Curtis "Muddy" Berry, Buddy Harman (drums).
Liner Note Author: Deke Dickerson.
Recording information: Bradley Film & Recording, Nashville, TN (01/29/1952-08/30/1957); Capitol Studio, Hollywood, CA (01/29/1952-08/30/1957); Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, Nashville, TN (01/29/1952-08/30/1957); Jim Beck Studio, Dallas, TX (01/29/1952-08/30/1957); Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA (01/29/1952-08/30/1957).
Illustrators: Tom Sims; R.A. Andreas.
Photographers: Tom Sims; R.A. Andreas.
Arranger: Rose Maddox.
Call it hillbilly, Western swing, or rockabilly, the music the Maddox Brothers and Rose made was typically exuberant, raucous, and one of the main ingredients of 1950s rock & roll. This collection, part of Bear Family Records' Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight series of early rockabilly music, shows the Californian family at its most outgoing, with hot soloing, boisterous comments from the players, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of wildly entertaining and rocking songs, including "Looky There Over There," "Kiss Me Quick and Go," and "A Short Life and Its Troubles," all of which carry the Maddox family stamp of energetic performances and unbridled, infectious enthusiasm.