The Best of the Memphis Jug Band

by Memphis Jug Band

The Best of the Memphis Jug Band cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 8 May 2001
  • Label: Yazoo Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:26
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Vol Stevens, Robert Burse, Jennie Clayton, Charlie Polk, Charlie Nickerson, Charlie Pierce, Jab Jones, Hattie Hart, Charlie Burse, Will Shade, Hambone Lewis, Tewee Blackman, Ben Ramey, Memphis Minnie, Will Weldon

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This Yazoo anthology collects twenty-three Memphis Jug Band performances from the band's Victor and Okeh sessions of the late 1920s, including 'Stealin', Stealin'' and 'On the Road Again'. Will Shade's ensemble, built on jug, harmonica, kazoo and guitar, defined the Memphis jug band sound that jug revivalists and skiffle groups later adopted wholesale.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, acoustic, bluesy, communal, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Tired Of You Driving Me (2:43)
  2. A Black Woman Is Like A Black Snake (2:51)
  3. Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues (3:09)
  4. Papa's Got Your Water On (2:32)
  5. On The Road Again (2:51)
  6. K.C. Moan (2:35)
  7. Cocaine Habit Blues (2:52)
  8. Coal Oil Blues (3:30)
  9. You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back (3:05)
  10. Memphis Yo Yo Blues (2:54)
  11. Memphis Shakedown (3:05)
  12. She Stays Out All Night Long (3:06)
  13. Meningitis Blues (3:18)
  14. Stealin' Stealin' (2:59)
  15. He's In The Jailhouse Now (3:14)
  16. Taking Your Place (3:16)
  17. Ambulance Man (2:44)
  18. Beale Street Mess Around (3:08)
  19. Going Back To Memphis (2:27)
  20. State Of Tennessee Blues (3:36)
  21. Insane Crazy Blues (3:10)
  22. Memphis Jug (3:10)
  23. Got A Letter From My Darlin' (3:00)

Credits

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