Arkansas

About Arkansas

Overview

Arkansas is an album by Col. Bruce Hampton. It was recorded at Southern Living Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and was released on LP in 1987 by Landslide Records. In 2000, Terminus Records reissued the album on CD. On the album, Hampton is joined by a large group of guest musicians. Reception The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars. Reviewer Robert Gordon wrote: "This 'Southern Captain Beefheart' misses, but this Colonel (Ret.) is original." A writer for Billboard stated: "Hampton's dadaist vision of rock with duo the Late Bronze Age earned him fans on the outer fringes. This solo album is more assorted weirdness aimed at listeners from the Beefheart school, and it boasts a strong cast of support players."

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Notable quotes

“There's a girl in Arkansas; the sheriff is her brother-in-law. Can't go back to Arkansas, I'm a bad, bad man.”
— Frank Butler, "I'm a Bad, Bad Man", written by Irving Berlin
“You can tell your mom I moved to Arkansas; you can tell your dog to bite my leg. Or tell your brother Cliff, whose fist can tell my lip. He never really liked me anyway.”
— Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992), Some Gave All

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