This is easily the best Maddox album out there.  The Arhoolie collection is some of their best hits and covers dance hall boogie, western swing, California country (the roots of the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens and  Merle Haggard), cowboy themes and just about any other kind of music being  played at the time.  One warning:  track 12, which is supposed to be  "New Muleskinner Blues" is actually "I Want to Live and  Love".  This means that "Live and Love" actually plays  twice, since it is also track 27.  You may not mind because it's one of the  best songs on the disc.  Arhoolie makes up for the error by including  "New Muleskinner Blues" as the first track of Volume 2 in this  series, which is almost as good.