Memphis Jug Band

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K.C. Moan 02:32 Tools
Cocaine Habit Blues 00:00 Tools
Bob Lee Junior Blues 00:00 Tools
On The Road Again 00:00 Tools
Memphis Shakedown 00:00 Tools
He's In The Jailhouse Now 00:00 Tools
K. C. Moan 00:00 Tools
Stealin' Stealin' 00:00 Tools
Insane Crazy Blues 00:00 Tools
Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues 00:00 Tools
Gator wobble 00:00 Tools
A Black Woman is Like a Black Snake 00:00 Tools
Going Back To Memphis 00:00 Tools
Mary anna cut off 00:00 Tools
Jim Strainer Blues 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmer's Blues 00:00 Tools
She Stays Out All Night Long 00:00 Tools
Kansas City Blues 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Sun brimmers blues 00:00 Tools
Coal Oil Blues 00:00 Tools
Cave Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Move That Thing 00:00 Tools
Oh Ambulance Man 00:00 Tools
Sugar Pudding 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I Think I Love You 00:00 Tools
Tired of You Driving Me 00:00 Tools
Peaches in the Springtime 00:00 Tools
It Won't Act Right 00:00 Tools
Stealin', Stealin' - Remastered 2002 00:00 Tools
Papa's Got Your Water On 00:00 Tools
Taking Your Place 00:00 Tools
State of Tennessee Blues 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Blues 00:00 Tools
Fourth Street Mess Around 00:00 Tools
You May Leave But This Will Bring You Back 00:00 Tools
Memphis Yo Yo Blues 00:00 Tools
Stealin', Stealin' 00:00 Tools
Meningitis Blues 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop 00:00 Tools
Ambulance Man 00:00 Tools
You may leave, but this will bring you back 00:00 Tools
Whitewash Station Blues 00:00 Tools
Jug Band Waltz 00:00 Tools
Kokomo 00:00 Tools
Newport news blues 00:00 Tools
I'll See You In The Spring, When The Birds Begin To Sing 00:00 Tools
Bumble Bee Blues 00:00 Tools
My Love is Cold 00:00 Tools
Rukus Juice And Chittlin' 00:00 Tools
Memphis Boy Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Green Slippers 00:00 Tools
Minglewood Blues 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Blues 00:00 Tools
Got a Letter from my Darlin' 00:00 Tools
Viola Lee Blues 00:00 Tools
Pig Ankle Strut 00:00 Tools
What's The Matter? 00:00 Tools
Walk Right In 00:00 Tools
Ripley Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking for the Bully of the Town 00:00 Tools
Spider's Nest Blues 00:00 Tools
Evergreen Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Feather Red 00:00 Tools
Stealin Staelin 00:00 Tools
Jazzbo Stomp 00:00 Tools
Whitewash Station 00:00 Tools
Bring It With You When You Com 00:00 Tools
She Done Sold It Out 00:00 Tools
I Packed My Suitcase, Started to the Train 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Habit Blues - Remastered 2002 00:00 Tools
Stingy Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
Papa Long Blues 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Talking About Sadie Green 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stand It 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks Started It 00:00 Tools
I Whipped My Woman With a Single Tree 00:00 Tools
Newport News Blues - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Feed Your Friend With A Long Handled Spoon 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan - Remastered 1990-1991 00:00 Tools
I Can Beat You Plenty 00:00 Tools
Snitchin' Gambler Blues 00:00 Tools
Ruckus Juice & Chitlin' 00:00 Tools
Round and Round 00:00 Tools
Mississippi River Waltz 00:00 Tools
Fishin' in the Dark 00:00 Tools
Ruckus Juice And Chittlin' 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Blues 00:00 Tools
Take Your Finger Off It 00:00 Tools
You Got Me Rollin' 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmers Blues (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Snitchin' Gambler-Blues (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Habit Blues (Remastered 2002) 00:00 Tools
Jug Band Quartette 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug-Blues (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Blue Take 1 00:00 Tools
Memphis Boy-Blues 00:00 Tools
Stingy Woman-Blues (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Boodie Bum Bum 00:00 Tools
Got a Letter from My Darling 00:00 Tools
Feather Bed 00:00 Tools
Everbody's Talking About Sadie Green 00:00 Tools
Bottle It Up and Go 00:00 Tools
Stealin', Stealin' (Remastered 2002) 00:00 Tools
Stealin' 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Habit 00:00 Tools
Tear it Down, Bed Slats and All 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop (Overseas Stomp) (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Bring It with You When You Come 00:00 Tools
Newport News-Blues (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Hes In The Jailhouse Now 00:00 Tools
My Business Ain't Right 00:00 Tools
She Stays Out All Night Long (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
K C Moan 00:00 Tools
Newport News-blues 00:00 Tools
Dirty Butter 00:00 Tools
Rukus Juice And Chitlin' 00:00 Tools
Got A Letter From My Darlin 00:00 Tools
Turpentine Blues 00:00 Tools
i can beat you plenty (that hand you tried to deal me) 00:00 Tools
Papas Got Your Bath Water On 00:00 Tools
Everybodys Talkin About Sadie Green 00:00 Tools
It Wont Act Right 00:00 Tools
Whitehouse Station Blues 00:00 Tools
Insane Crazy Blues (November 1934) 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop (Overseas Stomp) 00:00 Tools
You Got Me Rollin 00:00 Tools
Undberg Hop 00:00 Tools
Snitchin Gambler Blues 00:00 Tools
K C Mcan 00:00 Tools
Lindbergh Hop 00:00 Tools
KC Moan 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmers Blues 2 00:00 Tools
I'll See You In The Spring When The Birds Begin To Sing 00:00 Tools
She Stabbed Me with an Ice-Pick 00:00 Tools
I Packed My Suitcase Started To The Train 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmer Blues 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop 1 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmers Blues (take 1/3) 00:00 Tools
Fourth Street Mess 00:00 Tools
This Will Bring You Back 00:00 Tools
Buumble Bee Blues 00:00 Tools
I Can't Beat You Plenty 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop (Overseas Stomp) (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Kokomo (Previously Unreleased Version) 00:00 Tools
Overseas Stomp 00:00 Tools
Won't You Be Kind to Me? (Hattie Hart) 00:00 Tools
Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues - "Family Circle" 00:00 Tools
Stingy Woman Blues (take 1) 00:00 Tools
She Stays Out All Night Long (take 1) 00:00 Tools
Better Leave That Stuff Alone 00:00 Tools
Snitchin' Gambler Blues (take 3) 00:00 Tools
Newport News - Blues 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks Started It (take 2) (Minnie Wallace 00:00 Tools
Kansas City Moan 00:00 Tools
Hitch Me to Your Buggy (Will Weldon) 00:00 Tools
Vol Stevens Blues 00:00 Tools
Better Leave That Stuff Alone (Will Shade) 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmer’s Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Got the Rickets (Vol Stevens) 00:00 Tools
K.C.Moan 00:00 Tools
I Packed My Suitcase 00:00 Tools
Vol Stevens Blues (Vol Stevens) 00:00 Tools
She Stabbed Me With an Ice-Pick (Will Shade) 00:00 Tools
Turpentine Blues (Will Weldon) 00:00 Tools
You Gotta Have That Thing 00:00 Tools
Jazzbc Stomp 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Workhouse Blues (Jenny Pope) 00:00 Tools
I Whipped My Woman|A Single Tree 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug-Blues 00:00 Tools
She'll Be Back Someday (Kaiser Clifton) 00:00 Tools
Fort Worth and Denver Blues (Kaiser Clifton) 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn't, Would You. Papa? (Hattie Hart) 00:00 Tools
Teach Me Right from Wrong (Kaiser Clifton) 00:00 Tools
Tappin' That Thing 00:00 Tools
I Got Good Taters 00:00 Tools
Baby Got The Rickets (Mama's Got The Mobile Blues) 00:00 Tools
Meningitis 00:00 Tools
Riley's Waggon 00:00 Tools
Stealin' stealin 00:00 Tools
Bull Frog Blues (Jenny Pope) 00:00 Tools
Son Brimmer's Blues 00:00 Tools
Cash Money Blues (Kaiser Clifton) 00:00 Tools
Rent Man Blues (Jenny Pope) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Postman Blues (Jenny Pope) 00:00 Tools
Won't You Be Kind To Me 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-06-K_C_Moan 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Blue - Take 1 00:00 Tools
You Wouldn't Would You Papa 00:00 Tools
You Got to Have That Thing 00:00 Tools
Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule 00:00 Tools
Kansas Cirt Blues 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-01-Tired_Of_You_Driving_Me 00:00 Tools
Come Along Little Children 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-07-Cocaine_Habit_Blues 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again 00:00 Tools
Beale St Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Gator Weeblel 00:00 Tools
Fourth St Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Heart Breakin' Blues 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-04-Papa_s_Got_Your_Water_On 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-11-Memphis_Shakedown 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-02-A_Black_Woman_Is_Like_A_Black_Snake 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-12-She_Stays_Out_All_Night_Long 00:00 Tools
I'll See You in the Spring, When the Birds Begin to Spring 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-05-On_The_Road_Again 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-03-Aunt_Caroline_Dyer_Blues 00:00 Tools
Mary Ann Cut Off 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-09-You_May_Leave_But_This_Will_Bring_You_Back 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-15-He_s_In_The_Jailhouse_Now 00:00 Tools
She Stabbed Me with an Ice Pick 00:00 Tools
Jub Band Waltz 00:00 Tools
On The Road Again - Memphis Jug Band 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Blues (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Lindberg Hop 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-10-Memphis_Yo_Yo_Blues 00:00 Tools
Stingy Woman Blues 1 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-14-Stealin_Stealin_ 00:00 Tools
Newport News Blues 1 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-18-Beale_Street_Mess_Around 00:00 Tools
K.c Moan 00:00 Tools
Ruckus Juice & Chittlin' 00:00 Tools
You May Leave 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-21-Insane_Crazy_Blues 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-13-Meningitis_Blues 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmers Blues (1927) 00:00 Tools
I'll See You in the Spring, When the Birds 00:00 Tools
Peaches in the Springtime [1928] 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-08-Coal_Oil_Blues 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-23-Got_A_Letter_From_My_Darlin_ 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-16-Taking_Your_Place 00:00 Tools
Spiders Nest Blues 00:00 Tools
Jim Stainer Blues 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Sugar Pudding 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-17-Ambulance_Man 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-19-Going_Back_To_Memphis 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-22-Memphis_Jug 00:00 Tools
Tired of You Drinving Me 00:00 Tools
Cold Iron Bed 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan (1929) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Whitehouse Station Blues 00:00 Tools
The_Best_Of_The_Memphis_Jug_Band-20-State_Of_Tennessee_Blues 00:00 Tools
Stealin 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop -take 1 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - K. C. Moan 00:00 Tools
Will Shade - She Stabbed Me With An Ice-Pick 00:00 Tools
She Stays Out All Night Long -take 2 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin' 00:00 Tools
Rukus Juice & Chittlin' 00:00 Tools
Son Brimmers Blues 00:00 Tools
Madison Street Rag 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Stealin', Stealin' (take 3) 00:00 Tools
Tired Chicken Blues 00:00 Tools
Will Shade - Better Leave That Stuff Alone 00:00 Tools
Caveman Blues 00:00 Tools
Gator Wobble (1934) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Is Talkin' About Sadie Green 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - What's The Matter? 00:00 Tools
Baby Got the Rickets 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan / The Memphis Jug Band 00:00 Tools
Mistreated Washboard Blues 00:00 Tools
Bottle it Up and Go (Picaninny Jug Band) 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Habit Blues - Memphis Jug Band 00:00 Tools
You Got to Have that Thing (Picaninny Jug Band) 00:00 Tools
03 - Stealin, Stealin 00:00 Tools
Feed your friend 00:00 Tools
Steakin' Stealin' 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Taking Your Place 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Mississippi River Waltz 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan (Remastered 1990-1991) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - I Can't Stand It 00:00 Tools
She Stabbed Me With An Ice Pick - Will Shade 00:00 Tools
Springdale Blues 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks Stared It 00:00 Tools
Minnie Wallace - The Old Folks Started It 00:00 Tools
Hattie Hart - Won't You Be Kind To Me? 00:00 Tools
Won't You Be Kind To Me? 00:00 Tools
Hattie Hart - You Wouldn't, Would You Papa? 00:00 Tools
Teach Me Right from Wrong 00:00 Tools
Jonestown Blues 00:00 Tools
Hollywood Rag 00:00 Tools
K. C. Moan - Original 00:00 Tools
Newport News Bues - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Tappin' that Thing (Picaninny Jug Band) 00:00 Tools
I Whipped My Woman 00:00 Tools
Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter 00:00 Tools
San Brimmer's Blues 00:00 Tools
Stealin', Stealin' [Remastered 2002] 00:00 Tools
I Whipped My Woman With a Sing 00:00 Tools
Tired Of You Drivin' Me 00:00 Tools
Pretty Mama Blues 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop - Overseas Stomp 00:00 Tools
Lindberg Hop - take 1 00:00 Tools
122. MEMPHIS JUG BAND - K.C. Moan 00:00 Tools
Insane Crazy Blues [1934] 00:00 Tools
Come Along Little Children (Picaninny Jug Band) 00:00 Tools
Stingy Woman-Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll See You In The Spring, When... 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Jug Band Waltz 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - I Can Beat You Plenty 00:00 Tools
Cash Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Spider's Nest 00:00 Tools
Cocaine habit blues [Hattie Hart] [1930] 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Blues 1927 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Habit Blues [Remastered 2002] 00:00 Tools
Feed Your Friend With A Long-Handled Spoon 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug - Blues 00:00 Tools
I packed my suitcase, started for the train 00:00 Tools
Little Green Slipppers 00:00 Tools
Big Railroad Blues 00:00 Tools
Dirty Butler - With Minnie Wallace 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks Started It (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band / K.C. Moan 00:00 Tools
Memphis City Blues 00:00 Tools
I Got Good Taters (Picaninny Jug Band) 00:00 Tools
I'll See You In The Spring When The Bird Begin To Sing 00:00 Tools
Ruckus Juice and Chittlin' [1934] 00:00 Tools
K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band 00:00 Tools
A Black Women Is Like A Black Snake 00:00 Tools
Forth Worth & Denver Blues 00:00 Tools
Overseas Stomp (Lindberg Hop) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Yo Yo Blues 00:00 Tools
I Packed My Suitcase and Started to the Train - #1 00:00 Tools
Sun Brimmer's Blues (1927) 00:00 Tools
The Old Folks Started It - With Minnie Wallace 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Mess Around #2 00:00 Tools
Rukus Juice and Chittlin 00:00 Tools
Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues 00:00 Tools
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The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group in the 1920s and 1930s. The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and jugs blown to supply the bass; they played in a variety of musical styles. Between 1927 and 1934 various African-American musicians in the Memphis, Tenn., area grouped around singer, song writer, guitarist, and harmonica player Will Shade (also known as Son Brimmer). The personnel of this jug band varied from day to day, with Shade booking gigs and arranging recording sessions. Among the recorded members were (at various times) Will Shade (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Charlie Burse (pronounced Bursey) (guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Charlie Nickerson (piano and vocals), Charlie Pierce (violin), Charlie Polk (jug), Tewee Blackman (vocals, guitar), “Hambone” Lewis (jug), Jab Jones (jug, piano, vocals ), Johnny Hodges/Hardge (piano), Ben Ramey (vocals and kazoo), Casey Bill Weldon (guitar and vocals), Memphis Minnie (guitar and vocals), Vol Stevens (vocals, violin, and mandolin), Milton Robie (violin), Otto Gilmore/Gilmer (drums and woodblocks), and Robert Burse (drums). Vocals were also provided by Hattie Hart, Memphis Minnie, Jennie Mae Clayton (Shade’s wife), and Minnie Wallace, with Charlie Burse often contributing beautiful harmony parts to Shade’s lead vocal lines. In the case of Memphis Minnie, the Memphis Blues Band accompanied her on two sides for Victor Records, recorded in 1930 when the band's career was "winding down". The attributed names of the group led by Shade on various recording labels vary quite a bit, but recent scholarly consensus has led writers to compile all of these works under the over-arching rubric of the Memphis Jug Band. In addition to that name, alternative names found on record labels include the Picaninny Jug Band, Memphis Sanctified Singers, the Carolina Peanut Boys, the Dallas Jug Band, the Memphis Sheiks, the Jolly Jug Band and recordings credited to the individual performers Hattie Hart, Minnie Wallace, Casey Bill Weldon, Charlie Nickerson, Vol Stevens, Charlie Burse, “Poor Jab” Jones, and Will Shade, but actually performed with accompaniment by other Memphis Jug Band members. Musically their large membership pool allowed the Memphis Jug Band the flexibility to play a mixture of ballads, dance tunes, knock-about novelty numbers, and blues. Some of their songs mention hoodoo magical beliefs, and some members also contributed to gospel recordings, either uncredited or as part of the Memphis Sanctified Singers. The Memphis Jug Band has been described as having a remarkable sound due in part to the unusual instruments. Although most songs included a rhythm guitar and either a jug, a kazoo or a harmonica as a lead instrument or sometimes a mandolin or violin. The sound of the instruments ofen conveyed a "raspy, buzzing sound" that a Briish music scholar who did not know the band personally stated was close to the musical aesthetic of Africa, and in which, he said, the jug and kazoo represented the voices of animals or ancestral spirits. Shade never told scholars why he liked this sound, and since many of the performers were also part Native American, it is a good question as to which ancestors—if any—the kazoo was supposed to represent. The Memphis Jug Band played wherever they could find engagements, and busked in local parks. They were popular among white as well as black audiences. In total, they made more than eighty recordings, first for Victor Records, then—as the Picaninny Jug Band—for the Champion-Gennett label, and finally for OKeh Records. The Victor recordings were made in Memphis and Atlanta, Georgia between 1927 and 1930, the Champion-Gennetts in Richmond, Indiana in August 1932, while the final sessions on Okeh were held in Chicago in November 1934. By that time, their style of music was no longer in demand, and Shade was no longer able to keep the musicians assembled as a group, although many of the individuals carried on working around Memphis until the 1940s. In 1963 Shade recorded one last time with another Memphian, 79-year-old Gus Cannon, former leader of Cannon’s Jug Stompers, another popular jug band. They recorded the album Walk Right In, on Stax Records, a result of The Rooftop Singers having made Cannon's "Walk Right In" into a number one single. Will Shade on jug and former Memphis Jug Band member Milton Roby on washboard perform a series of thirteen traditional songs, plus Cannon's great hit "Walk Right In," including "Narration," "Kill It," "Salty Dog," "Going Around," "The Mountain," "Ol' Hen", "Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight," "Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "Boll-Weevil," "Come On Down To My House," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," "Get Up In The Morning Soon," and "Crawdad Hole." The album is almost an audio documentary tour through different corners of Cannon's life and career that, ideally, might've run to several volumes. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.