Show 64: The Jug Band Blues Tradition
Jug music is homemade music in the best sense: bottles, kazoos, washboards, strings, and a grin that can turn serious in a hurry. This show groups the tracks to show how jug bands carried blues, dance music, medicine-show humor, and street rhythm all at once.
For today's 64th episode of the CC Blues Show, we'll be exploring one of America's most timeless genres: jug band music. Up first we've got a jug band pioneer, Will Shade, with his Memphis Jug Band doin' "K.C. Moan." Moan like my woman's on board. Here it is.
Jug music is homemade music in the best sense: bottles, kazoos, washboards, strings, and a grin that can turn serious in a hurry. This show groups the tracks to show how jug bands carried blues, dance music, medicine-show humor, and street rhythm all at once.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K.C. Moan | Memphis Jug Band | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Hear Me Talkin To You | Ma Rainey with The Tub Jug Washboard Band | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Going To Germany | Cannon's Jug Stompers | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Sittin' on Top of the World | Beale Street Rounders | 1 | - | |
| 5 | My Good Gal's Gone Blues | Jimmie Rodgers,The Louisville Jug Band | 1 | - | |
| 6 | Sugar Blues | Alabama Jug Band | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Bustin' the Jug | Blind Roosevelt Graves | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Money Never Runs Out | Cannon's Jug Stompers | 1 | - | |
| 9 | When I Stopped Running I Was At Home | Dixieland Jug Blowers | 1 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Radio Blues | Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats | 2 | Yes | - |
| 11 | I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | Clarence Williams,Alabama Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 12 | Greenville Strut | Daddy Stovepipe,Mississippi Sarah | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Giving It Away | Birmingham Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 14 | You Ought To Move Out Of Town | Jed Davenport & His Beale Street Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 15 | You Got Me Rollin' | Carolina Peanut Boys | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Don't Drink It In Here | Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 17 | What's the Matter? | Memphis Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 18 | Bad Luck's My Buddy | Noah Lewis' Jug Band | 2 | - | |
| 19 | Whitewash Station | Memphis Jug Band | 2 | Yes | - |
| 20 | The Vamps Of 28 | Jimmy Blythe | 3 | Yes | - |
| 21 | Foldin' Bed | Whistler's Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Sho' Is Hot | Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Tear It Down | King David's Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Tear It Down | Bob Coleman,The Cincinnati Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 24 | Rising Sun Blues | King David's Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 25 | She's In The Graveyard Now | Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Beale Street Holiday | Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats | 3 | - | |
| 27 | Grandpa And Grandma Blues | Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe | 3 | Yes | - |
| 28 | House Rent Rag | Dixieland Jug Blowers | 4 | Yes | - |
| 29 | Highway No. 61 Blues | Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band | 4 | - | |
| 30 | Burleskin' Blues | Mississippi Sarah & Daddy Stovepipe | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Minglewood Blues | Cannon's Jug Stompers | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Casey Bill | Earl McDonald,Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band | 4 | - | |
| 33 | Cash Money Blues | Kaiser Clifton | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Bottle It Up And Go | Picaninny Jug Band | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Last Chance Blues | Cannon's Jug Stompers | 4 | - | |
| 36 | Black Cat Hoot Owl | Ma Rainey with The Tub Jug Washboard Band | 4 | - | |
| The Old Folks Started It | Minnie Wallace | - |