Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Back to Memphis

Here's the Memphis Jug Band.


Cocaine habit blues


Coal Oil Blues


We're going back, way back, to the late 20's and early 30's today. One of the interesting things about this band is that the personnel changed regularly, usually centred around Will Shade who was the glue holding the group together.


2 comments:

D.S. Williamson said...

Not only did the members change regularly, several of them went on to careers of their own. I think the most memorable thing about the Memphis Jug Band was that their backup instruments were washboards, kazoo's and glass jugs which produced the bass. These were great, thanks for sharing them. D.S. Williamson

mister anchovy said...

Thanks for your comment, D.S. When I started listening to them, I was also taken aback by the stylistic range in their music.