The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group active from the mid-1920s to the late-1950s. The band featured harmonica, kazoo, fiddle and mandolin...
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Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee), they played a mixture of blues, ragtime, and jazz. The history of jug bands is related to the development...
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Gus Cannon (redirect from Cannon's Jug Band)
was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is uncertainty...
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American Epic: The Best of the Memphis Jug Band is a compilation album released to accompany the award-winning American Epic documentary film series. It...
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Stealin' (section Memphis Jug Band)
Two-Lane Blacktop) "Illustrated Memphis Jug Band and associates Discography". Wirz.de. Retrieved May 26, 2021. "Memphis Jug Band: Stealin' Stealin' – Appears...
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blues, jug bands, such as Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band, were extremely popular practitioners of Memphis blues. The jug band style...
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of Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Thomas Morris, Memphis Jug Band, New Orleans Owls, and The Washingtonians (Duke Ellington's...
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(Italy) Will Shade, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist member of the Memphis Jug Band who recorded from the 1920s until his death in 1966. Kansas Joe McCoy...
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Will Shade (category Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee)
5, 1893 – September 18, 1966) was a Memphis blues musician, best known for his leadership of the Memphis Jug Band. He was commonly called Son Brimmer...
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songwriter. He was known for his work with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters and the Memphis Jug Band. His career was revived in the 1960s after years away from...
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of "Bottle It Up and Go", a hokum blues with jug band accompaniment, was recorded by the Memphis Jug Band, a loose musical collective led by Will Shade...
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to be the 1930 recording by Memphis Jug Band titled "Cocaine Habit Blues." Memphis Jug Band The Best of the Memphis Jug Band (titled Cocaine Habit Blues)...
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Hattie Hart (category Memphis blues musicians)
cocaine and voodoo". Hart was born in Memphis, Tennessee, around 1900. She first recorded with the Memphis Jug Band in 1928. She had a reputation for the...
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Noah Lewis (musician) (category Jug band musicians)
with the Memphis Jug Band some 20 years later. Lewis' ability to generate volume led to him playing in string bands and brass marching bands around Henning...
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participated in these pioneering recording sessions; The Carter Family, the Memphis Jug Band, Elder J.E. Burch, The Williamson Brothers, Dick Justice, Charley Patton...
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Tuba Skinny (section Band members)
Smith. Some of the bands whose material Tuba Skinny has interpreted in its own manner are the Memphis Jug Band, the Dixieland Jug Blowers and the Mississippi...
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1920s by musicians such as Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Blake, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Perls founded a second label...
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copyrighted the song before Rodgers. Finally, in 1930, the Memphis Sheiks (a pseudonym for the Memphis Jug Band) recorded it in a version that scholars have often...
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from the 1920s. He performed "On the Road Again", a 1928 song by the Memphis Jug Band, which The Hollywood Reporter describing his performance as "fantastic"...
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genre of black music in a billing of a race record for Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band (Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, 1929). After producing a big hit, "It's Tight...
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Dixieland Jug Blowers became the most sophisticated of its time, and influenced other jug bands of the time such as the Memphis Jug Band. The Dixieland Jug Band...
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Waltz" by Dan and Harvey’s Jazz Band (1918) and the "Jug Band Waltz" or the "Mississippi Waltz" by the Memphis Jug Band (1928), they are exceptional, as...
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Retrieved April 26, 2021. "Big Walter Horton". Msbluestrail.org. "Memphis Jug Band - Discography of American Historical Recordings". Adp.library.ucsb...
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Brothers Rev. Herbert Brewster Johnny Cash Roland Janes Albert King Memphis Jug Band Phineas Newborn, Jr. David Porter Sid Selvidge Kay Starr Carla Thomas...
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in 1929 by Peg Leg Howell ("Chittlin' Supper"), and in 1934 by the Memphis Jug Band ("Rukus Juice and Chittlin'"). Gus Jenkins, Johnny Otis, and Arthur...
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1965) was an American blues musician, best known for his work with the Memphis Jug Band. His nicknames included "Laughing Charlie," "Uke Kid Burse" and "The...
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participated in these pioneering recording sessions: The Carter Family, the Memphis Jug Band, Elder J.E. Burch, The Williamson Brothers, Dick Justice, Charley Patton...
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2021. Yanow, Scott. "Memphis Jug Band: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1927–1928)". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-12-04. "Memphis Jug Band: I Packed My Suitcase...
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response to the song "On the Road", a traditional blues performed by the Memphis Jug Band with more serious lyrical content concerning an unfaithful woman. Williams...
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Will Weldon, who recorded between 1927 and 1928 as a member of the Memphis Jug Band. Weldon cut over 60 sides for Bluebird and Vocalion. He was also an...
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