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.
“Don’t Give All The Lard Away” is a good story with great moral implications. I just wish I could focus on the meaning of it all. The music is soooo sweet that I might have to listen to this one again to find out what being “stingy with the lard” actually means back in the 1920’s. And how does he do that with a JUG?
Ooh wee! This little rag is a peppy steppin’ diddy. Sounds to make you get up and wiggle the tail feathers a bit. Might even shake and shout something joyous. What a difference a jug band makes in your day!
Oink oink oink oink grunt. Oink grunt grunt snort!
Oink oink oink grunt snort grunt oink Whistler and his Jug Band! Oink oink oink grunt the 1920’s!!
Snort grunt oink…
