High on the Hog

Black Oak Arkansas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033OY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,196 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars highly underrated classic, September 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: High on the Hog (Audio CD)

The main thing about Black Oak Arkansas was either you love them or hate them, there was little room in-between. "High on the Hog" was their first album with a certified hit, "Jim Dandy", a sort of ego-anthem of the lead singer, Jim "dandy" Mangrum. But the remaining songs on the album all had something for the Black Oak fans to love. As a result, you'll find that almost every song on the album was named by a Black Oak fan as their favorite. My personal favorite is "High and Dry", a simple little diddy about escaping a flood. It was a simple accoustic guitar and Jim Dandy's "ornery" voice, but it will always be a classic for those "dyed in the wool" Black Oak Arkansas fans.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BOA's Biggest Hit Album, February 26, 2008

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The Footpath Cowboy "rockerusa2002" (Kingston, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High on the Hog (Audio CD)

HIGH ON THE HOG was the biggest hit album for Black Oak Arkansas, obviously the nastiest, dirtiest, funkiest band to come out of the whole "Southern Rock" scene. The band lacked the musical skills of the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band, the Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, and Blackfoot, yet more than made up for it with a deep funk and a wicked sense of humor that hasn't dated at all. This CD belongs in any serious rock & roll collection.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jim Dandy is a Ras-cewl!, May 31, 2005

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This review is from: High on the Hog (Audio CD)

Now, some of y'all don't know I got me a lil' ol' man who fronts a tribute band to Zeppelin and Black Oak Arkansas called Stariway to Arkansas. He legally changed his name to Jimbob Dandyplant after enought folks done told him he looks like the other two. He's got himself long blond hair, eyes of blue, and a swimmer's body just like them before Jimmy and Robert done turned into 50 year-old fatsos with Just for Men blond hair.

Ana-hoo, I don't think he respects me much, although I dress up like his idol's old girlfriend Ruby Starr. He done caught me at the edge of the stage singin' "Jim Dandy is a ras-cewl" and stopped the band to scream at me in front of everybody in the club. "It's Jim Dandy to the rescue, ya bimbo!" Everybody laughed while I cried, but I still kept dancin' 'causin' that song rocks my booty off. Unfortunately, he dedicated "Happy Hooker" to me after we *made up* during first break, but I jez can't get enough. How can you say no to a dude who likes a band that paved the way for the likes of George Thoroughgood, the Georgia Satellites, Aerosmith, and David Lee Roth, only to be left behind as a footnote in rock history while their avid students reaped the glory they themselves still deserve?

I think about great, ballsy blues numbers with the cherry bomb of funk thrown in, and can't deny the infectiousness of "Movin'," and the almost metallic kiester crunch of "Mad Man," and the words highly underrated come to mind. True, Jim Dandy Mangrum was never a fantastic voice, but I'll be gosh-durned iffin' he didn't have as much carnal appeal as that cross dresser from Van Halen who stole everything he knows from him. An' besidin' all of that, what's a whiskey burned voice with the right 'tude when it's accompanied by three great axe-slingers, a hell of a drummer in Tommy Aldridge--who's played for everyone and their bros--and some good old southern blues and country roots funkified?

I'm still at a crossroads, y'all. Jimbob Dandyplant caught me at home with all three gee-tarists from a Skynyrd tribute band called Jacksonville Kid. Looks like I'm "Swimmin' in Quicksand." Funk-ay!