Gus Cannon and his Jug Stompers helped define Jug music in the early 1900’s. Derived from spiritual and early folk music, it’s influence is still felt today.
Archive for the 'Jug Band Blues' Category
This is truly archetypical blues song. What happened to Jim, Willy and Lulu by The Memphis Jug Band tracks this tragic tale with music, that you forget the story is so wrong!
Life might be sour sometimes, so I can only imagine what it was like back in the 1920’s. No cable. No internet. No i-phones! I found King David’s Sweet Potato Blues to remind me that life might be a bit more sugary.
A Banjo, Guitar, violin, saxophone, trombone, piano, clarinet and one jug. And it’s almost jazz if you really listen to the composition. The two founding members: banjoist Earl MacDonald and fiddler Clifford Hayes did not get along that well and one of them had to bribe the other to commit to some of these recordings. Jug band drama.
