From the first, Arkansas music mattered. You see it in fragments of cane flutes, whistles older than Columbus. The oldest image of an Arkansas musician may be a man carrying a rattle on a Quapaw buffalo robe; the oldest recorded Arkansas sound may be a 1928 string band from the Ozarks. There's a crazy-quilt variety—ballad singers side-by-side with bluesmen, rockers in outrageous Spandex with pistol-toting cowgirls, zoot-suited jazzmen next to grave-faced gospel quartets. Listen to the Arkansas music—let it "send you back to Arkansas."