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SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
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.
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
Some of these bootleggers make some pretty bad stuff. From the online (but now offline) outtakes of Douglas Brinkley’s interview with Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone magazine, here’s Bob Dylan in an exchange about the recording of his live shows: Are you recording all of your shows on good digital tape? Is each Bob Dylan show [...]
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 02/04/2009
Pajiba Music If You Don't Believe Cocaine Is Good, Ask Karl Rove And Elijah Wood Drug Songs - A Wednesday Afternoon Playlist / Caspar Salmon...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
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The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Thanks to Tim Hawkins for the news that the Carolina Chocolate Drops , who have just completed a two-week tour in Britain (no Irish dates this time, unfortunately), can be seen on BoingBoing.net , one of the most popular blog sites , performing 'Memphis shakedown', a Memphis Jug Band song from 1934, at the Will Shade Gravestone Benefit. The video was posted in April on YouTube .
The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ rendition of a 1934 Memphis Jug Band song drives me kerrazzzy. Dig that kazoo playing! (Thanks, Marina Gorbis!)
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops' rendition of a 1934 Memphis Jug Band song drives me kerrazzzy. Dig that kazoo playing! (Thanks, Marina Gorbis!)...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops' rendition of a 1934 Memphis Jug Band song drives me kerrazzzy. Dig that kazoo playing! (Thanks, Marina Gorbis!)...
CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ rendition of a 1934 Memphis Jug Band song drives me kerrazzzy. Dig that kazoo playing! (Thanks, Marina Gorbis!) Source
Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Gus Cannon’s sole Stax platter sits in stark contrast to the label’s usual brand of hot buttered high production soul. Though kingpin of the eponymous Jug Stompers a half-century previous, Cannon’s star had long since faded into dormancy by the time the 1963 session was waxed. It took a chart-topping cover of his staple “Walk [...]
Mondo Diablo (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
The House of Yahweh Playlist 1 The Father’s Laws Alleee 1 Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta * La Drogue Global Warming Torero Band * All Things Bright and Beautiful Memphis Jug Band * Insane Crazy Blues 3 The Father’s Laws Clive Richardson * Gay Activity Gospel Tone Spiritual Singers * Oh Sinner Man Yedidaya Hawkins Arrest Ralph Dollimore * Hit and Run Kids of Widney High * [...]
Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
The Dylan bootleg Live at the Finjan Club is as true as it gets, capturin' Dylan perfectly during his go it alone troubadour period. This was Dylan before he was hard times chic or that outlaw gypsy. This was Dylan on the way to becoming Dylan. Finjan is one of the absolute must have recordings from 62 and most positivley one of the doctors favorite live Dyan bootlegs. Funny enough when we first heard...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
One of the definitive jug bands of the '20s and early '30s, this seminal group was comprised of Will Shade, Will Weldon, Hattie Hart, Charlie Polk, Walter Horton, and others, in various configurations. Guitarist/harpist Will Shade formed the Memphis Jug Band in the Beale Street section of Memphis in the mid-'20s. A few years after their formation, Shade signed a contract with Victor Records in 1927....
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 08/28/2007
I'm reduced to sheepishness on finding it's 12 days since my last blog. All I can say is that life has been hectic with chores and general labour, even on the 25th, my birthday. Last year I spent my 60th on holiday in a villa in Dalyan, Turkey, and went up in a microlight, circling above the beautiful delta and seeing a big turtle moving purposefully along in the sea below. (Dalyan's delta is the site...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/09/2007
I first bought this as an 2-disc album back in 1973, and was fascinated by these early blues artists. Back at the time, this type of music was virtually unknown unless you were an old folkie or bluesman. I had bought Robert Johnson's album before this, but this was a revelation. It includes iconic blues artists from the 20's and 30's like Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Patton, Blind Willie...
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