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Product Identifiers

Record LabelWorld Music Network, Wmn

UPC0605633135824

eBay Product ID (ePID)3046052306

Product Key Features

Release Year2017

FormatCD

GenreBlues

ArtistVarious

Release TitleRough Guide to Jug Band Blues

Dimensions

Item Height0.17 in

Item Weight0.07 lb

Item Length5.49 in

Item Width5.02 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks25

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

TracksMemphis Sheiks: He's in the Jailhouse Now, Whistler ; His Jug Band: The Jug Band Special, Cannon's Jug Stompers: Going to Germany, Birmingham Jug Band: Giving It Away, Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band: Casey Bill, Tampa Redís Hokum Jug Band: It's Tight Like That, Carolina Peanut Boys: This Will Bring You Back, Daddy Stovepipe ; Mississippi Sarah: The Spasm, Minnie Wallace: The Old Folks Started It, King David's Jug Band: What's That Tastes Like Gravy, Seven Gallon Jug Band: Wipe 'Em Off, Memphis Minnie and Her Jug Band: Grandpa and Grandma Blues, Memphis Jug Band: Stealin' Stealin', Bob Coleman ; the Cincinnati Jug Band: Tear It Down, Clifford's Louisville Jug Band: Mammy O'Mine Blues, Noah Lewis' Jug Band: Ticket Agent Blues, Jimmie Rodgers ; the Louisville Jug Band: My Good Gal's Gone Blues, Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band: Beale Street Breakdown, Bill Johnsonís Louisiana Jug Band: Don't Drink It in Here, Picaninny Jug Band: Bottle It Up and Go, Dixieland Jug Blowers: Banjoreno, Prairie Ramblers: Jug Rag, Jack Kelly ; His South Memphis Jug Band: Red Ripe Tomatoes, Old Southern Jug Band: Blues Just Blues That's All, Alabama Jug Band: Sugar Blues

NotesThe Rough Guide To Jug Band Blues - By incorporating all manner of homemade instruments, jug bands were hugely popular in America during the 1920s and early 1930s. With an unparalleled vibrancy this 'do it yourself' and often overlooked approach to music was highly influential in the history of the blues. - The original jug bands had their origins in the 1890s amongst African-Americans, and were then known as 'spasm bands'. This 'do it yourself' approach to their instrument-making gained immense popularity in America during the 1920s and early 1930s, and became closely linked to the development of the blues. The jug could be earthenware or glass and was played by buzzing one's lips into it's mouth from about an inch away, thus creating a sound somewhere between that of a tuba or trombone. The swoop sounds that could be made gave the impression of sliding notes and a good player could get two octaves out of a good-sized jug. Incorporating all manner of homemade instruments, early jug bands were typically made up of African-American vaudeville and medicine show musicians and played a mixture of blues, ragtime and jazz music with a strong backbeat. - Further highlights include the sublime slide guitar playing of blues legend Tampa Red who formed his own Hokum Jug Band, as well as the frenzied and voice-like harp of Jaybird Coleman, the virtuoso harmonica player of the Birmingham Jug Band. Although other well-known blues performers embraced the jug-band craze, by the mid-1930s it had run it's course due to a combination of the depression and the devastating effect of radio on record sales. This collection goes to show how during it's heyday this not-often-talked-about genre was a highly influential and most vibrant of musical styles in the history of the blues.