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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.

Host Narration

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.

38Tracks
29Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
SeriesInstrument
Tagsjug bandsMemphisold-time bluesstring bandsprewar
Genresjug bandmemphis bluestraditional bluestraditional folkcountry blues
Tracklist
#TrackArtist
1K.C. MoanMemphis Jug Band
2Hear Me Talkin To YouMa Rainey with The Tub Jug Washboard Band
3Going To GermanyCannon's Jug Stompers
4Sittin' on Top of the WorldBeale Street Rounders
5My Good Gal's Gone BluesJimmie Rodgers,The Louisville Jug Band
6Sugar BluesAlabama Jug Band
7Bustin' the JugBlind Roosevelt Graves
8Money Never Runs OutCannon's Jug Stompers
9When I Stopped Running I Was At Home bridgeDixieland Jug Blowers
10Radio Blues bridgeCharlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats
11I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister KateClarence Williams,Alabama Jug Band
12Greenville StrutDaddy Stovepipe,Mississippi Sarah
13Giving It AwayBirmingham Jug Band
14You Ought To Move Out Of TownJed Davenport & His Beale Street Jug Band
15You Got Me Rollin'Carolina Peanut Boys
16Don't Drink It In HereBill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band
17What's the Matter?Memphis Jug Band
18Bad Luck's My BuddyNoah Lewis' Jug Band
19Whitewash Station bridgeMemphis Jug Band
20The Vamps Of 28 bridgeJimmy Blythe
21Foldin' BedWhistler's Jug Band
22Sho' Is HotTampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
23Tear It DownKing David's Jug Band
23Tear It DownBob Coleman,The Cincinnati Jug Band
24Rising Sun BluesKing David's Jug Band
25She's In The Graveyard NowEarl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
26Beale Street HolidayCharlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats
27Grandpa And Grandma Blues bridgeMemphis Minnie & Kansas Joe
28House Rent Rag bridgeDixieland Jug Blowers
29Highway No. 61 BluesJack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band
30Burleskin' BluesMississippi Sarah & Daddy Stovepipe
31Minglewood BluesCannon's Jug Stompers
32Casey BillEarl McDonald,Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
33Cash Money BluesKaiser Clifton
34Bottle It Up And GoPicaninny Jug Band
35Last Chance BluesCannon's Jug Stompers
36Black Cat Hoot OwlMa Rainey with The Tub Jug Washboard Band
The Old Folks Started ItMinnie Wallace