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The Last Medicine Show

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The Last Medicine Show --- 1974

These recordings were made at Pittsboro, North Carolina on Friday September 15, 1972 and Saturday September 16, 1972. "What you will hear on these two records is as accurate a document of a rural medicine show and its social function ever made, and it seems likely that they are of the last performances ever of a medicine show in the United States." Monologues between songs: - medicine show intro monologue - snake oil pitch - corn solvent & black salve pitch - final sale pitch for all products Released with a 28-page booklet, including the transcription of this last medicine show.